Anne Windsor
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BA (Hons) Fine Art, Central Saint Martins College of Art, London |
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Artist statement: Although three-dimensions and mixed-media have been included in some works to explore particular aspects of our multi-faceted and multi-dimensional nature, painting and drawing form the main focus; current work combines acrylics and inks on board to describe attributes of the subjects ‘self’. Layers of acrylic colour are ‘excavated’ to reveal fragments and glimpses which hint at hidden areas beneath the surface. An interlacing network, or mesh, of ink lines appears to hover between and above the scars of these openings. Through representation of less tangible characteristics than the surface appearance, and a deconstruction of the ‘image’ associated with more traditional forms of portraiture, my work attempts to approach an alternative, more essential form of communicating elements of the human spirit. Overexposure, to a vast multiplicity of images, has numbed our visual sensitivity. The apparent external identity is manipulated to act as a shield and protector of the more vulnerable ‘underbelly’ of our singularity. In traditional forms of portraiture the pose is exposed as posture; and it is this mask that I seek to undermine in an attempt to share a more fundamental understanding. The focus of contemporary culture on superficial appearance, as a form of disguise, encourages the loss of ‘self’ expression and, consequently intimacy. Obsessed with the latest model, what is ‘in’, and what is ‘new’, the transient nature of the image has conspired in its devaluation. The work is engaged with the search for a visual language that transcends the limitations of the ‘adopted image’; a language of inclusion rather than separation, of participation rather than observation, and of depth rather than veneer.
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