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"Structure, order and chaos are counterpointed in the dialectics of the grid in these ambitious works. The historical context of de Stijl - its utopian idealism, use of the grid and reductive aesthetic are evoked in this attempt to build the reduced grid back up again with a language that is aware of postmodernity whilst keying into modernist ideas.
The idea of the 'Superstructure' (re the titles) and its evocation of Marx - the economic base providing a cultural base - is interesting as theory, but the paintings themselves belong to a tradition more to do with Malevich and Mondrian than Marx.
The belief in making pure painting relevant to the world today is worked through into a final, more individual piece which is curated separately from the other two, whose allusions to cityscapes are nevertheless subtle and imaginative." - Assesment remarks made by examiner.