I’m really struggling with the descriptions. I’ve managed to write a few of them but I’ve got so many more to do.
Artist Statement
My art practice is based in print, installation work and bookmaking. I usually work with paper, making books from it, printing on it, constructing with it, and recycling old paper to make new.
My work is generally based upon repetition and I focus my ideas on patterns and shapes found within the human body. I’m interested in human life, who we are, physically and emotionally, from how the body is structured to our characteristics and qualities. My obsessive nature compels me to work in multiples and I use it to illustrate how the body repeats functions in order to repair renew and survive, often mimicking life, growth and regeneration. My work is about the processes involved along the way rather than the finished product.
Cells
Cells are a series of relief printed pieces about losing your identity when being part of a group. Each piece differs in colour, shape and size but the same printing plates were used in their production, giving them a common DNA. Often we place people into groups of nationality, colour of their skin, male or female etc, often having preconceived ideas of a person before we know them.
Cumulus Cells
‘Cumulus Cells’ were originally part of a larger installation for my degree show. Based on blood cells and made from cartridge paper I simplified the cell to a very basic form, stripping it of its colour and aesthetic beauty so that the multitude would be initially noticed. Each cell was constructed from the same basic design and yet over the months I spent creating them the clouds differed not just in the shape the cells formed together but the cells individual shapes too.
Growth
‘Growth’ is about the miracle of life. Taken from screen-prints and re-ordered to suggest the cells pushing up from the centre as they grow in number, with each cell developing as it reaches the outer edge of the image. This was an experiment to see if I could show the movement of the cells developing.
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