My name is Noah Joe Draper, I am a multi disciplinary artist that works in painting, photography, ceramics and digital media.

The greatest pleasure I get when exploring these mediums is finding novelty in technique and source material. The almost scattered sourcing of imagery from the internet and my own photography manipulated through digital programs generates the bulk of inspiration and aesthetic resources for me, opening avenues of new textures, mashup images and new drafting methods which are all hopefully realised and felt for in the material production of a painting.

Technique approached through a sensuous handling of material or an attempt to experience techniques and effects achieved by other artists historical and contemporary greatly feed into my work. Day dreaming up new approaches is what I find my self doing most mornings until I attempt to recreate these fantasies through working, dealing with what is at hand I weave and shift the compositional and physical problems I am faced with. Work involves a constant revealing and obscuring of layers through daily applied motifs and gestures, until finally the work has arrived and I feel that the work is genuine and has a place in this world.

Noah.

2025