An exhibition of drawing and painting by Elizabeth Hayden and Emma Kewley
The ‘overlooked’ and the ‘exposed’ provide a starting point in both artists work. Lead by personal curiosity and the obsessive collecting of images and objects, different narrative methods are presented through painting and drawing to explore sentimentality and unease with various subjects, whether virtual or domestic.
For Hayden, observing forgotten or neglected spaces/interiors provides an insight to previous inhabitants lives. Through variety of different media her work forms imagined narratives and memories which are ascribed to these uninhabited and unclaimed spaces.
Throughout Kewley’s work the theme of ‘exposure’ is fully confronted. Exploiting the chaotic nature of low budget pornography, fragmented narratives are given reign to shape the evolution of each drawing, leading a visual thread from one accentuated body part to the next.
Both Artists set out to question and explore perceived realities’ of their subjects and the fantasies they evoke.
A couple of disaster drawings in preparation for my May exhibition
All there is to do now is to save up for the glass ahahhahahaa
Un-Cut Pencil on paper 75x50cm
The very early stages of a very new- and hopefully more experimental project of drawing.
Untitled 1 and 2 Part of The Open Show , INC Tank, Edinburgh Jan 2012
INC Tank, Edinburgh- TEXT
My work explores pornography on the internet as a form of intimacy. The drawing process allows me the necessary fluidity to analyse, manipulate and re-articulate narrative sequences in video based pornography. The forms and bodies that develop within my drawings are chaotic and unresolved; the process reflects the fragmentation in gonzo and amateur pornography. There is no beginning, middle or end, only infinite and in some ways inexhaustible possibilities of activity. The opposition of linear narrative allows this video genre to step away from traditional fantasy, fictional and story-based porn and provide a more ‘real’ representation of sexual experience. Thus allowing a viewer to become more convinced, letting them, essentially, sit back, let go, and tug them-self silly. My work acknowledges this step away from structured narrative, it assess the questionable new step it takes which is towards a more intimate relationship between performer and viewer.
Horses Running study, Pencil on Paper
I’m very interested in animating forms- in creating sequences of figures that represent movement.
Recently I have become particularly fascinated with different narrative sequences/structures in video based pornography in different genres and what they mean/discourses of different types of representation—low fi/fragmented/fantacy/story based ect. In some ways I am trying to understand that through my work.
pencil and paper
New Drawings, pencil on paper, part of a new project
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