BA (Hons) Fine Art: Painting
Involving myself in the role as an observer of the everyday; I paint urbanised public space, captivated primarily by what Marc Augé would describe as a ânon-placeâ. These public spaces are where there are many private trajectories, transpiring to be places of passing with strong sense of residue of what has gone before. Figures appear decidedly unmoving, detached from the banal surrounding, gazing beyond the edge of the picture plane, a stance suggesting of inward reflection whereas the landscapes provide suggestions of context, devoid of detail, but with strong horizontal lines dividing up the canvas. The work comments on the sensation of personal experience and grapples with the notion of being confined to a given body; in the encounter of another figure one can be overwhelmed in the knowledge that it is impossible to separate oneself from these restrictions and understand it is an unattainable feat to attempt to fully comprehend anotherâs actuality. This feeling is ever more apparent when progressing within a non-place.