CURRENT WORK
The works are built canvases, layered using canvases of differing sizes. Individual canvases are either worked or left blank. Elements are introduced to each other, and juxta positioned. As the work progresses, the relationships alter and may be further worked. At the point where they reverberate, the elements are secured in place.
Life is multi-dimensional, a perspective the works expose. Filled with wonder, fear, and curiosity about existence I explore how I exist, how does my inner self relate internally and externally. My corporeal unit is site, I explore experiences of body, mind, ideas, emotions, and psychologies, sometimes comparing this with the externality of the internal experience. The works express something of living today, unpicking this “human”. I consider myself an emerging posthuman (feminist) artist; this position informs the work.
The first artist to have significant influence on me was Francis Bacon. Aged 13, accompanying a close friend on her school trip, I stood rooted in front of his work, awash with emotions. Then there is Van Gogh, I love the vitality and colours in his work. With Giacometti it is how he presents the sense of a person and how from a specific view point his work jumps into 3D. Antony Gormley’s work and his phrase ‘the experiencer on the other-side of appearance’ never ceases to fire me up. As my work developed, from expressionist figurative painting to an increasied mix of video and installation, I began to identify with and appreciate the works and theoretical positions of Orlan, Jo Spence and Marina Abramovic. Moving back into painting and building canvases, I came to understand the influence of Rauschenberg on my work. I have work in the Women’s Art Collection, Murray Edwards College, part of the University of Cambridge; Gwynedd Museum, Bangor; Private Collections UK and US.
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