Unit 2: Artist Statement & Unit 3 Proposal

Artist Statement

My work is about the constant murmuring that exists within our bodies, our homes and the objects that we choose as our travel companions through life. I am interested in the edge. The line that hovers between ourselves and the outside world or a potential other world, containing us within our reality. I have an enduring fascination with personal anecdotes and memories, imperative are those which are often trivialised or overlooked.  

I make artwork that challenges absence and presence. I am intrigued by the spaces in between, the aura and energy that objects can hold, their spirit and memory. I explore how the histories of ourselves and those who have passed can surround us within domestic settings and our possessions that exist within them.  

Ritual and superstition are rooted deep in my work, and I am fascinated that both practices can be used to stave away the potential chaos of life that hums under the surface. It is the presence of these themes that provides a sense of hope within my practice and the possibility to consider mortality, loss and the impact of living with a chronic progressive health condition.  

My mark making is intuitive and I am intrigued by automatic writing and drawing. I frequently use the continuous line as a stream of consciousness. Within my work, text is vital and the concept that imagery can be drawn through words. When making, I dip between drawing and text, weaving them together to create layers of meaning and storytelling. My works do not exist in isolation and I combine printmaking, drawing, photographs and objects to create a narrative where explorations can be made about the relationship between one and the other. 

Unit 3 Proposal

I want to continue pushing my ideas in representing aura, transitional objects and presence in relation to the body.

For the Unit 3 exhibition I plan to combine prints on fabric, paper, drawings and paintings with objects and sound, I hope to present a small body of work that is more akin to an immersive installation. This is important as the works need to be viewed as a collective rather than in isolation. The sizing might vary slightly, however the three mono prints would be approximately A2-A3. The collage piece 100 X 70 CM and the fabric piece 200 X 200 cm. The surrounding smaller works would be no bigger than 30 x 30 cm .

For the Research Festival, I plan to hold a ‘Handling workshop’ that be a per formative piece involving a small audience interacting with my small ceramic objects whilst I retell stories. I would like to also create a small publication.