The Final End of Year Show
Statement
In my first project to do with materiality, my work explored the relationship between the process of repetition, sequences, grids and recycling of material. I also looked at linear space and how they associate with negative space. I got to work with material a lot which then fed my second, Subject Matter project. The subject that interested me was the bus, bus journeys and travelling overall. I kind of stuck with the idea of repeated images for a while, joining bus images together into a collage looking figure. Once I started working with mixed media and materials though, I seemed to get lost. I started looking at linear space which went back more to my first project. There was too many directions I wanted to go in and look at.
In the end I decided to explore the aspect of mapping more. I looked at artists such as Kathy Prendergast and Julie Mehretu where they used maps as part of their work. My work overall seems to create an emotional impact while looking at it. The sense of anger ripping through it. The tension between chaos and imposed order, the concrete and the imaginary.