I’ve reached the review stage of my research and my practice continues to be about a desire to transform my work from craft to abstract art. I began with my motivation to make marks and draw and I’ve come to understand that I draw and make to think. Also that materials and process play a far more significant part in my practice than I previously thought. I’m very much still in a state of transition selecting and negotiating with unfamiliar materials and processes to help me to find new methods of working. I’ve just started to make a series of ephemeral experiments that I photograph and discard or re use in later work
I’m hopeful that research around the working methods of artists that I like will help me to develop an understanding of my own work particularly a recent development, my eagerness to suspend my experiments in space…
So I’m looking at the work of Eva Hesse, I feel a strong affinity with her ‘studio works’, Gabriel Orozco, Karla Black and Susie Mac Murray especially for their handling and sensitivity to materials and making.
