Hong Kong artist’s search for meaning of life leads to stark, geometric new work

Lauren James, South China Morning Post, April 16, 2018

From occult-inspired pieces and cityscapes to hypnotic art that recalls the spirograph, Canadian Peter Yuill’s latest works ask the big questions

 

Gaze a little too long at one of Peter Yuill’s geometric artworks, made up of painstakingly hand-drawn concentric circles, and your eyes will start to play tricks on you. The Hong Kong-based Canadian artist’s hypnotic, hypotrochoid shapes bisected with thick, black rectangles recall the spirograph art you might have once tried in maths lessons.