ARTISTS TALKING

# 17 [16 June 2010]

BA (Hons) Fine Art Degree Show 2010

Gwynedd Museum & Art Gallery Bangor

Official opening Friday 18 June 6pm

The exhibition continues until 3 July

# 16 [26 April 2010]

This image relates to physical space…an underlying expression of emotion. It offers the viewer a freedom of response that may have many levels of meaning.

I am working on a series of prints that relate to physical space…the prints are to be cut and folded to form boxes. The cutting and folding of a print distorts the image; memory and imagination are interwoven, causing a distortion of facts, therefore, distortion is where process meets ideas.

# 15 [15 April 2010]

This is my second intensive studio week this module…working in the course studio, focussing on my work. The next four weeks will be spent working independently in my personal studio space monitored by a tutor.

I have sent my exhibition and catalogue statements in to be translated into Welsh; my CV has been written…just need to write a self-evaluation of progress…the reality of the degree show has really hit home now.

# 14 [6 April 2010]

As I work on the series, the images are strange yet at the same time familiar…ordinary things are juxtaposed and transformed into the extraordinary.

The hand-drawn elements are a vital means of expression…simple and direct;  the grids evoke a sense of time through the nature of their making…time is where process meets ideas.

I am considering mounting the work in boxes, which, if joined together on the gallery wall, would form another grid.

My inspiration comes from the work of Susan Hefuna, who uses the metaphor of the Mashrabiya which, traditionally, protected the inside world; filtering light and allowing you to observe without being seen.

# 13 [14 March 2010]

This is, again, a very hand-made, very personal image, produced, using digital media as well as maintaining a strong connection with the traditional.

The print is part of a series; I am bringing in the notion of time by using the same approach throughout and by drawing attention to similar elements that exist within each of the works.

I plan to present the series in boxes…communicating a sense of depth and memory.

# 12 [21 February 2010]

I am delving into my personal space, exploring memory and the past, transforming them into my work; the nature of interpretation, subjective versus objective truth. I am re-imagining something, possibly transforming it somewhat, but it remains strongly connected to its source.

The world and life as it appears on the outside and the world that we inhabit in our minds…the spaces are different, and often don’t coincide at all.

# 11 [29 January 2010]

I continue to play with variations of grids, overlapping geometric shapes to create a sense of peering through. Within the constructed layers, lies a highly personal, subtle description of emotion.

# 10 [19 January 2010]

This drawing is a symbol, made up by combining several quite separate images/fragments, with little regard for actual appearances but with much regard for the concept.

Working with pastel and charcoal…these soft materials give richness of tone and atmosphere, at the expense of crisp definition…working freely, allowing interesting, energetic mark-making to move around the work, not just crossing it. I don’t feel the lively marks cause loss of harmony because they have been carried from the foreground to the background, as well as from side to side.

# 9 [14 January 2010]

I’m thinking about the presentation of the collagraph…should it be mounted as a triptych or should each piece be pinned to the wall individually and viewed as objects? ; Perhaps they would become lost.

# 8 [13 January 2010]

It has been a most productive day at uni, with positive verbal feedback re my practical work.

The triptych explores the concept of being separate but related to each other in both form and colour. The elements that I am trying to describe have become involved in the actual process of making the printing plate…using materials that were bound for landfill…trying to capture the feeling of erosion and decay.