Sunday 7 August 2011

Solo Exhibition at Kiln House Gallery




'In-Flux' - a first solo exhibition by recent graduate Ann Charlesworth, a Blackpool Artist, who explores the themes of Communication and Catharsis through mixed media.
 
As Parsons (2008) states "...art is not just a series of pretty objects; it is rather a way we have of articulating our interior life”. 

Therefore it has become my focus, my obsession almost to try to unlock and gain access to some of these buried emotions. My work is about communication and dealing with intense buried emotions, after the death of my father as a child.  Art is my way of finally trying to deal with the emptiness, confusion and anger that has been allowed to build up over years. This has come about by ritual and absorption into the actual aspect of creativity and mark making, but has also arisen from the specific recording of the developmental stages; all in all it has been about slowing it all down and allowing myself to immerse in the whole ambience and atmosphere of my artistic process.
The end result has an aesthetic quality and an ambiguity as it manages to take on different forms for the people who look at it. This is unintentional but shows how powerful the imagination is as it tries to make sense from chaotic, intricate, complex pattern and forms. 

Saturday 9 July 2011

PHOTOGRAPHS OF PROCESS




The Process is just as important as the finished result, as it encapsulates the feelings and allows them to become imbedded in the materials.  It also allows a glimpse of the world of the artist as they are in the process of creation.

Sunday 3 July 2011

RECENT DEGREE ART WORK


mixed media on Canvas material - most pieces are 2m x 2m (approx.)

























I chose to hang my fabric pieces using a strong simple 'grip clip' (from Lyreco)
as I wanted to maintain a simplicity and free flowing, organic feel 
(and for me, transportability was an essential element).  However as a commercial option, they could equally be stretched onto a canvas frame and hung traditionally, or  could be cut down to size and framed in glass. The whole idea behind their concept is their variable nature and their practicality, despite their size, meaning that the size does not become an issue, but that their presence still remains strong.