The journey
Ratul Alam is an Australian-Bangladeshi artist whose practice centers on abstraction shaped through gesture, layered surfaces, and the recurring framework of Kit Kit (a version of hopscotch). Working across canvas and paper, his paintings emerge through an intuitive process where memory, material, and movement converge. His work is held in private collections across Australia and internationally, and has been exhibited in both independent and institutional settings.
Recent works
Gallery Kit Kit
Rooted in childhood memory, Kit Kit returns to a game once used to police difference and reclaim it on new terms. The court persists across the works fractured, repeated, and reworked shifting from a site of shame to one of presence and control.
Gallery Soft Geometry
These works begin with familiar structures grids, blocks, spatial fragments but resist resolution. Form is stretched, interrupted, and rebalanced through instinct, where control and uncertainty remain in constant negotiation.
