Bangor University

BA (Hons) Fine Art Degree Show 2010

Gwynedd Museum & Art Gallery Bangor

Official opening Friday 18 June 6pm

The exhibition continues until 3 July

This image relates to physical space…an underlying expression of emotion. It offers the viewer a freedom of response that may have many levels of meaning.

I am working on a series of prints that relate to physical space…the prints are to be cut and folded to form boxes. The cutting and folding of a print distorts the image; memory and imagination are interwoven, causing a distortion of facts, therefore, distortion is where process meets ideas.

This is my second intensive studio week this module…working in the course studio, focussing on my work. The next four weeks will be spent working independently in my personal studio space monitored by a tutor.

I have sent my exhibition and catalogue statements in to be translated into Welsh; my CV has been written…just need to write a self-evaluation of progress…the reality of the degree show has really hit home now.

As I work on the series, the images are strange yet at the same time familiar…ordinary things are juxtaposed and transformed into the extraordinary.

The hand-drawn elements are a vital means of expression…simple and direct; the grids evoke a sense of time through the nature of their making…time is where process meets ideas.

I am considering mounting the work in boxes, which, if joined together on the gallery wall, would form another grid.

My inspiration comes from the work of Susan Hefuna, who uses the metaphor of the Mashrabiya which, traditionally, protected the inside world; filtering light and allowing you to observe without being seen.

This is, again, a very hand-made, very personal image, produced, using digital media as well as maintaining a strong connection with the traditional.

The print is part of a series; I am bringing in the notion of time by using the same approach throughout and by drawing attention to similar elements that exist within each of the works.

I plan to present the series in boxes…communicating a sense of depth and memory.