Objects to discard, Objects to keep. A dichotomy, as a collector one can ask oneself.
In a continuing strategy from my previous works, my paintings further analyse my autobiographical association with collecting. My methodologies firstly involve selecting objects and textiles that are inherited through an ancestral route; further, a relationship to my past through worn textiles and found objects that remain sentimental to me and finally and importantly, given objects received as gifts from loved ones.
My paintings are individual transient reflections of the time, the place; in relation to objects; an autobiographical history (although not chronological) of my life and my collections; fragments of things,stuff, and bits and bobs.
This platform for a broader framework allows me as an artist to expand and question the polarities of why we chose particular items and why we keep others and centrally this allows me to depict in paint, my own preferences.What would you keep, What would you discard?
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