An interview with Nathalie Eigen:
What’s your contribution towards organising the degree show?
I’ve been desperately looking for sponsors to help raise the £4000 or so needed for the degree show catalogue. Big companies aren’t proving successful so we’re going to try contacting university alumni, local businesses and personal contacts.
What are you currently working on?
I’m brilliant at working on five things at once! I’ve been working on the discrepancies between written descriptions and visual images; how you can make image match word and word match image, even if they’re unrelated. I’ve been doing some metal etchings too that I want to incorporate into my work. I’ve also got a poster project on the go that I’ll be carrying on over the holidays and I’m developing some black and white photographs taken on a recent trip to Mexico.
What are your ideas for future work?
I want to continue with more black and white photography to make a visual alphabet, looking at the boundaries between the visual and the senses. At the moment, I’ve got several ideas for more finalised pieces, all continuing to explore various ideas of the ‘alphabet’.
Are there any difficulties you’ve come across?
It’s the simple stuff that’s most frustrating: printing, paper sizes, image quality, type – all the little things. But this year my practice involves the initiation of a concept that is very personal to me, so it hasn’t been too much of a struggle; I’ve been really enjoying making the work.
