What animates What the Owl Knows is an ambition to shift the focus of attention away from the painter, as an object of attention, towards the quality of attention bestowed upon the paint by the painter. What the Owl Knows aspires towards a poetics of recursion in which an audience pays attention to the ways in which digital video pays attention to the ways in which a painter pays attention to what she paints.

Commissioned by Secession, Vienna, co-produced by the Cooper Gallery, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee.

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/36215