Richard Duckers paintings, until recently, were created by spraying black acrylic aerosol graffiti marks onto a concrete surface rolled over a hardboard frame. They are developed from images of bacteria, of growths in petri-dishes, or genetic sequencing ladders. They offer little immediate insight into the origin of the image represented - allowing them to remain pictorial and mark-making investigations in their own right.

In the new series the concrete has been replaced by colour, inferred from the coloured dyes used in bacteria slides. The marks are now made by spraying on flock, which conflates the domestic with the gutter by using a device that has associations with the home or the pub, but has the look of mould on the surface. The grid has also been broken up and the sizes are variable to allow a more decorative play and pictorial reading, implying the act of painting itself is a viral process one mutating into the next.

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