This installation, is the third reimaging of The Red Bags, sculptural drawing installation. It was selected as a shortlisted finalist for the Aesthetica Art Prize 2023 and was exhibited at York Art Gallery, York, UK. As with its earlier incarnations ,it is a personal response to contemporary global issues, mass migration, conflict, fragility and strength, vulnerability and endurance.
Installations depend on location, space and environment and
are created or re-invented according to that space. Both a reaction to or a
statement of, my installations and sculptural drawings engage via dialogue and
conversation on very current global and societal issues. Relationship,
Conversation, Connection, Community, Placement, Humanity, and current global
issues are my focused interest.
They are subtle and challenging, a contrast between the
fragility and strength. They have been referred to as both monumental and
fragile at the same time.
My Creative practice looks to what it is to be human, the
fragility, the strength and is demonstrated in the materials I use. However
salvaged or found though, the aesthetics, the craft that is art is vital to me
, allowing me to continually move my practice forward.
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