MA Fine Art
My art practice encompasses painting, drawing, film and photography and engages with the dialogue between these media, particularly in relation to time in the artwork, and the role that touch light and memory play. Underlying ideas are hidden narratives, absence, presence, disappearance, mortality, memento mori and stillness. I use archive, found and my own photographs and stilled moving image as sources of depiction. Drawn to the physical material of film and the relic qualities of the transfer of light, I have recently been working with 16mm film, the relatively lengthy process providing space for intuitive thought and an arena for ideas to develop, slowing thinking in a similar way to the pace of painting. During the editing process, images caught in movement â in under or over exposed footage or the flashes between takes and flaws â that are otherwise hidden or unnoticed can be found digitally. I use paintings as a means of arresting this other world and giving presence to the frozen moment, and by combining paintings in series or with film the space between becomes an intrinsic part of the work. www.elainebrown.org.uk