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I am an artist and part-time lecturer- I have just completed MRes at LJMU and have started looking at applying for a practice-led PhD.
Originally a painter
I have recently worked in Photography and Installation, often working with my
own personal archive of sketchbooks, photographs, diaries etc
In the wider community we invite discussion concerning ‘our’ need to
make space and to fulfil our creative ambitions. In doing so we aim to analyse
and question the role of women in today’s society and consider the way society
is shaped.
1989
A collection of A4 painted and collaged pieces. These
collages reconfigure the sketches and ephemera from my sketchbooks from that
period (tickets from buses, gigs etc) They are about the moments, the
autobiographical details, that the component elements represent, but they are
also about the processes whereby those memories are themselves adapted, edited
and shaped into a coherent personal history
The
Fall of the Berlin Wall
I became interested in contrasting my experience with
important global events from 1989- contrasting the long-lasting effects and
global significance of events with the trivia and mundanity that I expected to
find in my own diary entries. It turned out that the dates in point- the fall
of the Berlin wall and Tiananmen Square, both marked quite important dates in
my personal life. I produced large format prints of some of my remaining
artefacts from the period on plinths as if museum pieces.
The
places where I used to hide my cigarettes
I
took photographs of negative spaces, holes on shelves where my cigarettes used
to be. I wanted to contrast my feeling of loss from stopping smoking with that
of a big romance; something clichéd- the kind of subject matter that might be
portrayed within popular culture as a love-song, a film or a book. I displayed
a country and western song lyric that never had been a hit to attempt to play
with this idea.
15hours, 7days, 4weeks, 4months
I used my domestic and professional schedules as a
starting point to isolate and pinpoint the limited time available to make work.
The piece exhibited was a sculpture of my schedule -the limited time I have to
make work was physically chipped out of the piece inviting reflections on
restriction of time as not only a necessity but as a creative tool.
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