A welcome return to showing work in real life
This last year has been challenging in how I engage audiences through my work, particularly as the work I create often needs to be seen physically to get really close to the marks and details. This is particularly evident in the Abstracted 35 series which undergoes a digital process before being printed on thick lightly textured paper that seems to bring out some of the more complex details.
The pandemic has also given me the opportunity to understand my making processes, something that I might not have done without an enforced time out.
Undertaking an MFA in Fine Art during this period adds to some of the challenges I’ve experienced as we’ve been taught online, which removes the subtleties of human communication and the ability to build narratives as part of group discussions .
For only the third time in this academic year I’ll be showing some work in the basement gallery at Backlit in Nottingham, its a vast space so has given me the opportunity to spread out a bit amongst my second year colleagues. It’s a great way to test a new format, showing the works at a different scale, this time printed 3 times larger than some my other recent prints.
I’m looking forward seeing how the 35 prints I’ve used work as a set and individually, or in small groups - I’ve tried to create several typologies, connected with different marks, colours and intensities.
I’m looking forward to engaging with the outside world after such a time of separation and difficulties. I will be using the session as an opportunity to consider how I can package the prints for sale on my website. More photos to follow.