Out of the Ordinary

Artist Statement

I want to try and push the way people thinks about photography, to make it more than a means of representation. I focused on form and colour ignoring the subject matter completely and trying to create a beautiful image where the beauty isn’t led by the subject. This work explores ideas of photo therapy creating pictures in response to the psychiatric criteria of borderline personality disorder. It was important to me to display the emotion behind these criteria instead of creating literal depictions of them. The aim of this work is to try and tackle the stigma surrounding BPD and to try and create understanding for sufferers.

Artist statement

My work focuses on everyday and familiar objects, often portraying them, or involving them in a scenario that is in some way out of the ordinary. I use variations in scale to show things in a different way and to have them interact within scenes and with other objects that are disparate in size. I enjoy using found objects and everyday items I may have laying around the studio or at home and creating new relationships between them. I enjoy playing with visual perceptions and first impressions, and also making something new and interesting out of old or unused objects and giving things a purpose above that which they were intended for.

Artist Statement

My work is predominantly three dimensional and of an emotional range. This range incorporates installation, video/film, land art, sculpture, painting, drawing and photography. I discover within physical materials, mediums, organized texts, theories and documents, art works that evolve in relation to a broader cultural, social and technological interest within the complex field of contemporary art.

The found, collected, manipulated, recycled and purchased materials formulate a dialogue within the works overall concept. I combine my skills of improvisation, preparation, investigation, manipulation and application of materials in space. I am influenced by the materialistic world, popular culture and much of what surrounds me.

My way of articulating ideas through materials and their physical properties becomes an investigative way of questioning and resolving my work. This allows me to create with poetic and humanist qualities, forms of choice whilst combining the themes and issues that interest me. Some works are free flowing; some utilize natural phenomena while others need time to materialize. The work produced is an insight of my personal experiences, knowledge, vision, energy, inventiveness, ability and sense of humour. It also aims to challenge boundaries within art, politics and popular culture as well as to convey critical faculties, intelligence and sensibility.

Artist Statement

In my current work I am responding to the fragmented complexity of contemporary life.

I am exploring the space that we occupy both physically and psychologically.

Some of my paintings explore the play between pure abstraction and figuration.

I enjoy surprising the viewer through the power of colour and how this contrasts with the imagery revealed beneath the layers that gives way to further and deeper meaning.

I record images and events that resonate as both mysterious and familiar.

The venue for the Out of the Ordinary exhibition will be Rosehill Garden Studios, situated on the Woodlane campus at University College Falmouth. The large well lit space is nestled in between the exotic plants and gardens that surround the period buildings. Currently it is a very calm and beautiful site but will be bustling with visitors and students at the beginning of September making the place an even more vibrant and positive place to be in.

Out of the Ordinary is a contemporary art exhibition displaying new and existing works by four artists based in Cornwall. Collectively the works explore the everyday and encourage it to be seen as more than just an inanimate object or mundane routine. The works celebrate these lost memories, places and objects by utilising them and transforming them into art that is intriguing and mysterious.

The artists included in the exhibition are; Zoë Hyde, an abstract figurative painter, Ian Penna a sculptor and installation artist, Stuart Robinson a mixed media artist and Lisa Williams a photographer.

The artists have been selected by the curator Rebecca Darch who is currently studying MA Curatorial Practice at University College Falmouth. The exhibition will be taking place at Rosehill Garden Studios on University College Falmouth’s campus, the exhibition forms part of the MA Shows in September.