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Jayne Anita Smith

Halifax
New series of figurative paintings derived from collage studies exploring the connection between the feminine, spirituality and patriarchal impact on both.
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This new body of work has developed over the last few years and follows a shift in practice, embracing a more fluid and spontaneous origination. At their inception, images are generated through a process of organic drawings rooted in memory, providing the foundation of the work and underpinning each of the subsequent layers as they build. The combination of drawing and painting is integral to the narrative of the work, creating form and space for questions to be posed and interrogated. Using drawing and painting in tandem to play with the boundaries between figurative and abstract, these heady, overtly hallucinatory configurations play in the spaces between the conscious and unconscious, where emotion and memory are rooted in the instinctive and primal.

By generating space as well as narrative, I am building a vital, immersive world that echoes the emotional disturbance of the struggle between self and other; one that seeks to envelop its observer and gives a platform from which to interrogate the darkest, most chaotic elements of our emotional experience. Aimimg to capture the disorientation of the increasing assault of the demands of a contemporary world, exploring its complex dichotomy with the essential human experience and the conflict that arises as we wrestle with that constant dialogue.

 

 

 

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