Inspired in equal parts by conceptual, painterly, and sculptural concerns, Angela de la Cruz utilises the canvas to subvert conventions of painting, and extend the potential of narrative form. Aligning her work within the greater discourse of the history of art, de la Cruz defies the notion of the canvas as a unique, singular object by deconstructing and reconstructing paintings into recyclable "Commodity Paintings". Reinforced with titles such as Ashamed, Off Guard, or Stuck, her works are often physically and psychologically damaged. Her signature form of action painting — resulting in mangled and fractured stretchers, and crumpled, torn, or scorched canvases — serves to visualise the dramas their titles invoke and unleash them into three-dimensional space. These works, which have recently incorporated items of domestic furniture, anthropomorphise human emotions and exude a strange calm in the wake of the violence enacted upon them.