Stephen Ormandy
Only Dancing
Formist
Fifteen years of Stephan Ormandy’s practice is surveyed in Formist’s latest publication. With the first two-thirds of the book devoted to a stream of his colourful, geometric paintings, the title comes to a close with an essay by Lilly Wei in the signature futuristic font that adorns the cover, which compels us to take time soaking in the artist’s biography as we would the ‘moving’ parts of an image; underscoring his interest in the marriage of material, concept and form. Its unusual style, and substance, speaks of Ormandy’s lexicon; from collage and paint, to colour juxtapositions, the body and toggling between a figurative and non-objective point of view.
