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ENTANGLEMENT
This body of work has really taken off since the beginning of 2022. It explores the entangled position we are in with the natural world. Western notions have conditioned us to understand the world round us as an "it", something other, something without agency, something for us to buy, sell, and control.
I am a research based artist, and I am using everything I have learnt from medicine, surgery, anatomy, botany and science, with anthropological theories, to better try and understand and draw inspiration from different cultures and their understanding and relationship with the living world around them.
These paintings and drawings will attempt to convey this research.
Re.Spire
Oil on board
90 x 60cm (100 x 70cm framed)
Exhibited at:
Holt festival 2022
John Byrne Award 2023
Awards:
Winner of "November" John Byrne Award
Top 3 Annual awards for John Byrne Award
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Entanglement
Oil on board
90 x 90cm
Exhibited at:
Aberdeen Art Society Annual Exhibition 2022
“Entanglement” is a visual representation of the entangled lives we, the human species, lead with the natural world.
We depend on the natural world, our earth, like a foetus depends on its mother. This notion of mother earth made me want to produce a painting evocative of a cross-section of the planet we live on, while also being reminiscent of the renaissance anatomical drawings of foetus' in wombs.
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In the News Weekly Drawings
In 2022 I set myself the challenge of creating a drawing every week based around something I'd read in the news. Again and again I was drawn to environmental stories or environmental imagery. Below are a selection of those I created across the year and into 2023.
Although now not a weekly challenge, this has become an important part of my process. Engaging with what is happening in the world now, and exploring these narratives in pressure-free drawings where I explore different iconography, experiment with compositions, and push myself to become looser and think outside the box.
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