An exploration of form and symmetry within the dialogue between found objects is the working practice of artist Stephanie Richardson. The photographic image in particular becomes a direct conference between existing and newfound imagery:
“My practice is framed by the engineering of curious or uneasy new evolutions of beings and events through simple interventions and incisions into found imagery, in which the indexical root becomes disfigured and stained with blemishes.
Fragments of annexed vintage photographs are isolated, mirrored or erased entirely in order to compose a series of despoiled tableaux. In recent works I have instigated a formal bleeding of the photographic texture of young girls, one into the other, in order to construct symmetrical and symbiotic patterns. I then use monochromatic acrylics to mottle the image, adding delicate hand-painted veining and employing lo-fi printing and folding processes, which function to dissolve the integrity of the original photograph.”
Richardson has just graduated from her BA in Painting at Edinburgh College of Art. She lives and works in Edinburgh.
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