Götz’s ongoing research involves creating hard–edged colour field wall paintings that alter the way in which architecture is experienced conventionally. Each commissioned painting is unique and developed on-site. The creative process starts with a site visit which allows Götz to experience formal aspects of the space and its architectural qualities, reacting to the use of the building and its social activity. The paintings and their use of colour explore and expand the basic rules of colour perception, questioning the assumed division between ‘subjective’ and ‘objective’ experience of the dynamics of social spaces. Xanadu, situated in the Victorian Staircase at Leeds Art Gallery has been viewed by more then 1 million visitors. For its realisation £17K was raised through Art Fund – Art Happens and a 120-page monograph was published by Domobaal editions in association with Leeds Art Gallery. Salon Diagonale, a site-specific wall-painting covering the entire wall space of an exhibition room was part of the group exhibition ‘Seurat to Riley, The Art of Perception’ at Compton Verney (2017). A catalogue accompanying the project published by Compton Verney included an artist-interview with curator Penelope Sexton. The exhibition toured to the Holbourne Museum, Bath. To mark the 10th anniversary of the Gallery’s extension in 2017, Pallant House commissioned Götz to create ‘Composition for a Staircase’, a mural responding to its architecture and the modern abstract paintings in the collection. Made possible through the support of the Abbey Harris Mural Fund the project was awarded £5000.

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