ARTIST STATEMENT

In this series the character, Lucille, a model I have come to use obsessively, and who has become something of an icon for me, is both the focal point as well as one of the various scraps and disparate bits in a fictional environment made from an array of left over bits, compulsively collected and painstakingly combined. The environment she resides in is constructed from the substance of a domesticated female archetype. In comparison with the outside world paper, fabric and pins appear meaningless and trivial, commodities of a life confined to the home. Time, like a net being pulled across the bottom of the ocean, pulls with it physical and non-material fragments.  The arrangements of these fragments on different planes represent this inevitable accumulation; a sort of heap of personally specific associations, memories and values. I have used repetition, clashing patterns, visual disturbance, colour, texture and 3 dimensional form as a method of signifying the aforementioned things. As a way of enabling further additions as time advances I have presented all of this information in the form of pin-boards, open ended and able to evolve.

 

As result of this process of assembly Lucille emerges both tragic and triumphant, sitting atop a pile of seemingly trivial hoarded items, which have been woven, pinned and stuck together, in a symbolic, transformative personal reinvention.

 

 

Oil and charcoal on paper; fabric, pins, paper, thread on polystyrene

Various sizes

2013