Sue Skitt BA (Hons) Fine Art for Design.
Supporting Statement.
Taking inspiration from Dutch and Spanish vanitas paintings from the 16th and 17th century, my mixed medium photography incorporate artefacts with in the traditional construct of the still life. This combining the present and past speaks to memory and personal legacy both the decomposition of the natural (such as rotting fruit and withering flowers) and the breakdown of man made objects (reference the physical body and mortality).
Much of my work explores the power of object to bear witness to intangible ideas and emotional truths. The work employs the iconography and symbols of common every day objects means of communication. The use of mixed medium photography itself adds to the irony when viewed with in the historical framework of vanitas painting, evoking the viewer to call to the mind to question?
In revisiting the tradition of still life as a memento mori, through mixed media, created a series of challenging pieces, incorporating a diverse range of media, and medium.
This explores silk screen printing, collage, hand painted surfaces, photography of my drawings, and work, to capture my working practice in another dimension through Mixed Media, this works well with my fine art still life vanitas photographs. The use of this medium has been explored to assist an individual approach to my working practice.
In taking something from everyday, and freezing it in a college mixed media, the desire is to stop time itself, which is to capture an image of something as it exists at that particular instance. Although the action implies a wish to neglect the effects of death, effectively it hastens death, multiplies it and personage it, the series of vanitas colleges is a conscious or unconscious reminder of death and decay.
Sue Skitt BA (Hons)
EXHIBITIONS
Parallax AF ,2012
International Contemporary Art Fair
Chelsea Town Hall
Kings Road
London
February 16th-18th 2012
Ferens Art Gallery
Open Exhibition 2012
Queen Victoria Square
Kingston Upon Hull
10th -February-15th-April
Threshold Festival
Camp&Furnace
Liverpool
10th FEBRUARY 13TH February 2012
Twinned 2012(in association with Threshold)
HeadSpace@EggSpace
Liverpool
January 27th -February 26th 2012
Winter Blues6
Headspace@Eggspace
Liverpool
December 2011-January 2012
Parallax AF exhibition
London Frieze
La Galleria
Pall Mall
London
SW1Y 4UY
13TH-16TH OCTOBER 2011
Opened Twinned Group Exhibition,
HeadSpace@EggSpace,
The Egg,
16-18 Newington,
Liverpool,
L14ED
18th February -13th March 2011
EggSpace at Threshold Festival
The CUC
41-51 Greenland Street,
Liverpool.
L10BS
February 11th-24th 2011
Still Point Art Gallery
BLOG: Still Point Art Gallery Opens "Still Life: Ordinary and Extraordinary.
Online exhibition,
Still Life:Ordinary and Extarodinary
www.stillpointartgallery.com
February 8/2011- April 19/2011
IMAGE TO OBJECT
RED GATE GALLERY,
209A COLDHARBOUR LANE,
LONDON
SW9 8RU
JAN -14TH 2011 -FEB -3RD 2011
The OPEN 1ST
THE BRADFORD PLAYHOUSE,
4/12 CHAPEL STREET,
BRADFORD.
WEST YORKS,BD1 5DL
13TH DECEMBER 2010-19TH JANUARY 2011
WINTER BLUES 5
HeadSpace@EggSpace
LIVERPOOL.
DECEMBER 2010-JANUARY 2011
Coterie Gallery,
SELLECTIVE,
Sheffield
November-December 2010
Exhibition 15 inches of frame
Birmingham,
November 24th- 5th December 2010
Yorkshire,Huddersfeild ARTFORM
Tempoary Art Space,Beermat Show,
Huddersfield,
October 2nd-&3rd 2010
Twenty-Ten (Independents Liverpool Biennial 2010)
HeadSpace @EggSpace,
september-november 2010
20 x 20 Exhibition 2010,
Access Space
sheffield
september-october 2010 Se
RA Summer Exhibition
Rejects 2010
Menier Gallery
London
June 2010
The Signature Art Awards 2010
DegreeArt.com
London,
www.DegreeArt.com
August 2010
Candid Arts Trust
Fine Art & Photography
Islington
London July 2010
Barbican Arts Group Trust-Art Works Open 2010
Blackhorse Lane Studios
London
June 2010
‘How beautiful ugliness is’
Red Gate Gallery;
London
May-June 2010
Short spring open (light night)
headspace@eggspace
Liverpool
May 2010
‘Art Snobs & Pritt Sticks’.
Free Range Truman Gallery
F Block T2, London.
June 2009
Temporary art space
Beer Mat.
Open Exhibition
Piece Hall
Halifax
May 2009
Terms & Conditions
Dewsbury town Planning empty shops
May 2008
Nationality British.
Occupation Fine Art Photographer,Graphic Designer,Illustraitor.
Education BA(Hons)Fine Art for Design.
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