Everyone in the 3rd year final year currently have a piece of work on display in the Folly Lane Campus Foyer.
I’ve just re-written my artist statement to go alongside my work retrieve:
My work centres on listening. Over the past year this process has focussed on the gesture of writing in paint, evolving into exploring listening through 3D forms and ploughing knowledge from this back into my painting. My current practice has stemmed from a review of my 2013 work and returning to a piece, retrieve, to use as a starting point for new work where I am limiting the palette (based on retrieve) and seeing how far I can push these self-set limitations.
I’ll post an image of the work here, apologies for the poor quality.
Thinking about my work in a wider context, I like the way Hayward Director, Ralph Rugoff, talks about artworks that “reflect the times in which we live.” :
I think that most great artists are not just making art about other art and art history—they’re making art about their own experience of contemporary life in their historical moment. They are responding to feelings that they have and which most of us tend to ignore, and they’re looking at things around them in their environments that, again, most of us tend to ignore.
(whole interview here) http://www.artspace.com/magazine/interviews_featur…
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A large part of what I have been trying to do is to respond to the world and my experience of it. Learning to notice things that I can easily ignore. Finding ways to respond and learning how to push what I am doing so hard that I fail, go past a critical point in the process and discover what was almost there.
