I am really excited to say that my work will be in an exhibition this week in London! Be sure to check it out if you’re in the area!
MA Fine Art Farnham are showing work at 17 South Molton Street Gallery, London, W1K 5QU.
Show open from Wed 16 - Sat 19 June 2021, 11am - 5pm | DM to attend open evening Tues 15 June 6.00-7.30pm.
“The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled” (John Berger).
Is anything the same? Our lives have been disrupted, our routines and our very “ways of seeing" have all changed; in short, our usual focus has been unsettled. Nonetheless, the realities that faced us before, continue and endure - but something tells us that perhaps we need to look at things differently. We do not need to look very far, just beneath the surface, on the other side of the door, behind the slogan, within the wreckage, under the water, beneath the skin or even through the looking glass. We need some sort of revaluation. Care and control have become central issues in our lives. This fast changing and unpredictable environment presents important questions around how we currently experience being human. Against these actively destabilising events, against the here-and-now of our lives, Unsettled Focus reflects upon the experiences of our being-in-the-world. It reflects a synthesis of the existential and the imaginary, of the fact that we are physically grounded yet lost in thought, filled with life yet bound to die, looking back and looking forward. The work itself spans mixed media, installation, film, photography, sculpture, painting, drawing, collage and animation. Unsettled Focus can be seen through a series of contextual lenses including, future geology and the Anthropocene, our relationship with the machine and technological entanglements, place, the body and the home, the skin and its boundaries, soft dystopia and how we care. Through their work the artists challenge the complexities of how we see and feel in a time of shifting social and cultural norms. This show brings together the diverse work.
Everything Matters
Installation and sculpture; silk print, vinyl image, wax sculptures
Consisting of three elements tied together through the fluidity and materials of the body, this work invites you to manoeuvre through its boundaries, for we both have a body and are a body. The work explores this duality and expansion of the skin in a way to break the borders of both the work's own physical materiality and our own human materiality. Soft tones trigger the senses of sweet feminine ideals, whilst the abject body entices you for another look, these pieces are abstract replicas of body fat rolls, curated together in bunches and rolls, an exploration into this biomorphic shape shifting skin that we call home.
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