RAVENSWOOD Art Prize

SAFE KEEPING.

I’m very honoured to be amongst an inspiring group of artists as a finalist in the Ravenswood Art Prize 2021 .

The past year has been one of drawing my family and friends through a computer screen rather than from life with the digital connection adding another layer to not only my process but also to our relationships creating a new intimacy and care for each remarkable character in my life. The remnants of raw planning are left visible, notes of what was intended but was suddenly left open rather than filled. It is a layered and visceral celebration of relationships and touch, movement, shadows and colour. Interlocking shapes are pulled from life drawings and portraits and used as a repeated graphic motif to rebuild abstracted bodies as a glitching connected mass - every one nuanced and flawed, lightly held together but always ready to fall away.

Mixed media on linen, 200x160cm.