Janet Currier
London
I am a London based maker. My work concerns the domestic everyday and especially the mess and anxiety of being a mother. I am also an experienced facilitator and artist educator.
My work explores an internal world where memories and emotions bubble up to the surface. The sculptures, installations and paintings that I make are a way of processing everyday experiences like the feelings of joy and messiness of being a mother, the anxiety of sickness and the stress trying to hold it all together in an increasingly precarious world.
Pattern and repetition are central to my work. Repeated marks and motifs in drawings, or the masses of soft pink forms in installations, are a metaphor for the labour of caring. It is work that seems to be on a never ending but constantly overlooked loop. It is monotonous but somehow miraculous in its skill.
All the time female and maternal body is never far away. Soft sculpture installations suggest raw flesh that is uncomfortably squashed and compressed. Sometimes the shape of a body, or an imagined internal view is seen in the work. It is most often a body that is under attack, a body being probed or sick or leaking and somehow not quite able to contain itself.
Recent works reference bodily processes at a microscopic level where cells mutate, viruses multiply, and diseases threaten to engulf. We are reminded of the fragility of our existence, and our interdependence with a multiverse of organisms that we don’t yet understand.
I live and work in London. I received her MFA from Goldsmiths in 2017, winning the Warden’s Art Prize that year. My work is held in various private and public collections including Goldsmiths College Collection. I was awarded the first Elephant Residency at Griffin Studios in 2017 and was recently shortlisted for the Denton Prize.
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