As an artist I aim to connect objects with colour and produce a level of visual satisfaction. My work starts its life as a digital experiment, enabling me to explore quickly and instinctually with colour changes and compositions; mark making and rhythmic shapes form a key to transferring the digital work into a real life setting. Constructing the abstract digital work into a life situ enhanced a need for the readymade and fast drying materials as this mimics brush tools and quick colour changes transpiring the processes used digitally to physically. My generation has been described by art critic Gene McHugh, as digital natives, outlining us as a digitally enabled cultural generation who, since we were conscious, had technologies weaved into our lives. Aiming to make sense of this second nature we share the ability to seamlessly use the digital materials, combining this with an awareness of visual satisfaction and play. I aim to string together a digital feel to a physical formation of abstract compositions.
Menna Dummett
My work currently surrounds the study of important individuals in my life. I aim to reflect the subtle emotions that can be captured candidly whilst watching someone closely and understanding them. My work predominantly consists of coloured pencil drawings which I...
