Scouting from scholastic, analytic and painterly traditions, Olivia van Kuiken’s work feasts on referential systems and processes them into painterly fields that delight in the afterimage of cognitive operations. Expressionism, plotted line work, figuration and geometries present in van Kuiken’s work as quotational gestures belonging to a wider sign-system of painting writ large. The compression of these methods demonstrates how the medium conscripts itself, with modalities of thought maintaining a charged exchange with their vessels of representation.