My work has been created using both sourced and self-made videos. Through editing, I have found a love for the look of CRT monitor style videos, combined with bright colours that really draw in the viewer. Video is very stimulating as it allows me to show clips that...
As a printmaker my work focuses on the relationship between the botanical world and art. My work focuses on the attention to detail by looking closely at patterns, textures and colour that are found within nature in flowers and plants. My inspiration for my print...
In 1982 my Mum gave birth to a little boy called Owain Rhun Llwyd. At 4 months old, he was diagnosed with serious brain damage. He died just before turning 4 years old. During his short life, women from the local Welsh speaking community in Talgarreg decided to...
by using both installation and abstract performance I intended to look at the relation between the space and the performer, all the while looking at personal and political issues and the historical impact of performance in relation to political ideals. With personal...
Provisionality is the emblematic way of how I understand the world, life’s uncertainties and my ever changing surroundings. I use a method of representation and erasure to create a visual tension between abstraction and representation, figure and landscape and depth...
My current practice explores the need to express emotions and reflect on experience through an artistic practice, utilising language, drawing and painting to push the boundaries of stereotypical self-portraiture. Self-reflection, obsession and insecurity are conveyed...
The Sublime is formless; it has no shape and cannot be depicted because it is an emotion. In order to experience the Sublime we must remove all distractions from our surroundings and submerge ourselves into the space in which we can be elevated to this emotion....
Throughout my artistic practice I have used photography to get a greater understanding of peoples insecurities about their bodies. In my photographs I have been focussing on singular body parts that people have told me they are most self conscious of. To get a deeper...
I am endeavouring to explore the space between extremes - the ambiguous middle ground between contrasting elements, but not their extreme versions. I am not interested in a singular, central ideal, instead, I consider a series of sliding scales, somewhere along which...
My current work is an investigation into how we cope in the face of significant absence or loss; how do we get up and get out of bed each morning and face the world when something so fundamental, so intrinsic to our lives as we have known them is gone? Underpinning...
Coercive control is the foundation on which domestic abuse is built and is the micromanagement of a victims life. Domestic abuse isn’t just acts of violence, it is acts of control, it is where domestic abuse starts and escalates. Living with an abusive partner or...
My main focus of my work is to look past the obvious and identify the changes, be it in my own life and in my artwork. Change is constant whether we notice it or are oblivious to it. This subject matter of change can relate to anyone and anything. Change for me is...
These paintings create an illusion that provokes an emotive state, in the same sense as to how depression has a certain hold on you. The viewer feels a sense of being pushed and pulled whilst looking at the paintings - just like being under a trance. After...
Within today’s society, we have become so conditioned and blind sighted by the truth. I explore the devastating effects our simple food choices has upon the environment and our health. My work will make people more curious and question the food industries and...
I primarily work with a mobile phone and a digital camera, the qualities of which I use to record the intimacy of the everyday experience, in particular my sleep paralysis. Sleep paralysis is a condition that takes form during moments of falling in and out of deep...
My work is an exploration of my personal experiences of motherhood and the implications that being a mother has had on my relationship with the world, my son, and myself. Through extensive research into maternal artwork, psycho-analytical and theoretical texts on...
My landscapes are always imaginary: the current themes that are suggested throughout my paintings consider the dark, mystical and perhaps fearful. These paintings are inspired by Bruegel, Botticelli and Giorgiones landscapes that feature in their paintings; sometimes...
My art practice is centred on who I am. Constantly referencing my conscious and subconscious understanding of the world as the mother, wife and dancer, I strive to create work that is "true to myself" and inherently bestowing qualities such as movement, balance,...
My work explores the practice of painting in the digital age, challenging how abstract painting can be pursed when this narrative - as a consequence of technology - can be faked or non-assignable. Compositions are informed by digitally manipulated imagery and methods...
The immediate focus of my work is the interplay between abstract and representational form. I am interested in envisioning urban, post industrial buildings as surfaces in a state of decay. This began with my interest in British landscape painting and the genre’s...
With elements of my childhood woven throughout, my work tells a loosely autobiographical story of nostalgia and melancholy, translated through the rhythms of the natural world. These rhythms offer a reflection of the contrast between loss and abundance – we are...
My series of work is an exploration of a mindful phenomena. I aim to successfully understand a mindful practise that combines art and meditation. Something beneficial to my well-being, physically and mentally. My work relies on techniques that are methodical,...
My anthropomorphic forms address our metacognitive ability when learning and are displaying playful ways which mundane objects could be used if we change the way we think about our thinking. An individual’s past experimentation with an object can limit the...
My current work is exploring re-contextualisation through collage and transferring it through the medium of oil painting. I start my process by making small collages using my own and found imagery. The main focus of these collages revolve around combining different...
My current interest is in religious art, particularly that which depicts women. As a Welsh woman with an Italian heritage I have observed the prominent role Catholicism plays in both cultures and the way women are treated historically and presently by the Church. My...
Drawing from a number of influences and ideas, Square bar, painted exists as a clear display of process and artistic development. Distinct lines and an undercurrent of geometric form allude to early 20th century movements such as Constructivism and Cubism, while the...
I make Still Life oil paintings with subject originating from my surroundings, typically including pubs, commercial products and text from labelling. I make observational drawings that are further developed based on my own associations. These association include...
My practice has been created using digital mediums, video and animation. I am able to play with imagery through these mediums. I especially enjoy editing, as it allows for more expressive elements within my piece. Video and animation allow for a range of visual...
I make art because of the way it makes me feel. My process allows me to self imbue my art by pouring my sentiment directly into them. If a piece doesn’t feel right it isn’t started. My art is like a souvenir to help reflect upon stages in my life. The artwork is...
My submission for this exhibition is a selection of paintings in the abstract mode, this is the sort of work that interests me the most. It is my preference to paint with non-representive figures and shapes with a vibrancy of colour all around the canvas. If you look...
My current practice aims to demonstrate the paradoxical relationship between the crossing over of boundaries of both the physical world and the cybernetic world. Through doing this the work addresses the physical and psychological effects social media and digital...
Within my practice I want to portray a story of domestic violence and the consequences through statistics and thought provoking imagery. I highlight the symptoms and aftermath of being a victim of domestic violence, leading to trauma disorders, interpreting the side...
