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Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions (H/W/D): 120 by 80 by 5 cm.
Year made: 2007
Framed: As per artist instructions
Whilst building on the body of work for my series of paintings entitled ‘The Evidence’, I started to explore the meaning of what constituted evidence itself.
Literally speaking, evidence could be objects or artefacts taken from a place - not necessarily the scene of a crime - which suggested what had happened there. To take the idea further, evidence could therefore be the document of a memory, a place or time. It could also tell whoever was looking at it about a person, their ideologies and character in a non-specific way. Evidence itself is only ever bits and pieces brought back from a metaphorical ‘place’; the suggestion of an experience.
My intention when creating ‘Insomnia’ was to produce a painting that would be at once beautiful in terms of it’s bold colours and clear, expressive mark-making, and also somehow desolate. ‘Insomnia’ at once attracts the eye and conveys specific creatures in a landscape, but the viewer is not aware exactly where this landscape is, or how substantial the horses are in terms of reality. The piece also points to a deeper level of personal experience - the quiet static of a sleepless night, which I have always been prone to.
Strangely, on completion of this piece I was visited by a friend who on his way to my studio told me he had been suffering from a lack of sleep due to bad dreams. He told me that the word nightmares alluded to a mythology of the horse of the night - ‘night-mares’. He had no idea I was painting this piece at the time.
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Alice White
The compelling energy of my work is a plundering of documentation, a revisiting of people or places which are half-remembered. I am fascinated by that which can be captured by an image, and that which lies on the periphery of vision, perhaps caught in a brushstroke but never entirely contained. Moments of beauty, of intensity, of tragedy gradually become abstract source material, guiding the emotive power of my paintings.
The subject of my work is at once figurative, referring to...
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