Siobhain Moakes
Siobhain’s current work concerns the adaptation of the visual field of the viewer to the received image. She has had many difficulties with her eyesight over the last few years and this has stimulated an interest in conveying distortions, both in image and focus.
She usually works in oil on canvas and enjoys figurative work, although the direction of the latest work has led to an interest in painting a pseudo – landscape, derived from images from Google earth. There is a pleasing irony in the apparent aerial image appearing as if it were complete fact, when it is actually a generated distortion of fact and fiction.
The work for the exhibition is a series of large scale canvases, mounted as connecting panels. These are meant to be seen ‘in – the – round’, that is, entered as an installation piece. This should create a feeling of oppression and force the viewer to move to see the panels, thereby introducing a kinetic element to the work.
