Symposia was created for a private patron as a visual conversation about gathering. The work references the ancient symposium—not as a historical reconstruction, but as an enduring idea: people meeting around food, thought, art, and exchange.
Figurative and abstract elements share the surface, allowing the composition to feel social without becoming illustrative. The result is a collector work designed to invite discussion in the same way its subject is built around dialogue.
The artwork does not merely depict a gathering. It is designed to create one around itself.
The Idea
Gathering is treated as an intellectual and emotional ritual.
Symposia begins from the belief that conversation can transform a room. Figures appear in relation, not isolation, and the composition allows different gestures and moments to coexist without resolving into one fixed narrative.
This openness gives viewers a place within the work. Meaning changes according to who is standing before it and what they bring to the exchange.
The Composition
Figurative clarity and abstraction hold the conversation in tension.
Recognisable human scenes establish an immediate social register, while looser fields of colour, line, and interruption prevent the work from becoming a literal record of one event.
The movement between those modes creates layered attention. The eye can enter through a figure, follow a gesture, and then move into a more ambiguous visual field where interpretation remains open.
The Private Setting
A bespoke work becomes a catalyst for the life of the room.
Created for a private interior, Symposia is intended to live alongside actual hospitality, conversation, and reflection. Its subject is reinforced each time people gather within its presence.
The commission therefore operates both as an art object and as a social anchor—a work capable of becoming part of the patron's own rituals over time.
Symposia turns gathering into a collector work: layered enough for contemplation, open enough for dialogue, and designed to gain meaning through the conversations that happen around it.