My practice-based research is an investigation of material transformation as applied to mediated images of the ‘landscape.’ The work is concerned with the possibilities and limits of representation using processes of erasure, disruption and repetition in relation to found images, where ‘the image’ does not sit exclusively within one realm but in between multiple mediums and surfaces. This interdisciplinary approach builds on the conceptual and aesthetic tension between craft and concept, image and object, local and global, visual and tactile. My work explores these dynamic relationships by foregrounding the in-between as a new space that emerges from these binary tensions.
Within Australia, Armando has participated in exhibitions in Sydney and Melbourne that have been part of arts festivals such as Sydney Art Month and Head-On Photography Festival. Armando has also participated in major Regional gallery exhibitions, such as the Tamworth Textile Triennial 2015, where the gallery acquired the work for its collection and its 2020 edition. His work was recently selected for the biennial Dobell Drawing Award 2023, Australia's premier showcase of contemporary drawing in all its forms, and has been chosen to tour nationally for the next two years. Armando is a finalist in the inaugural GIRRA: Fraser Coast prize for Landscape 2023 and in 2024 is a finalist in the prestigious Art Gallery of New South Wales Wynne Prize, Gosford Art Prize, Jacaranda Drawing Biennale (Grafton Regional Gallery) and the Redlands Art Prize (Cleveland Regional Art Gallery).