Carrie Skinner
(25 years old. Born in United Kingdom. Lives in: Glasgow)
Glasgow School of Art
Fundamentally grounded in Gothic literature, my practice occupies the territory where its falsified deliberate archaism converges with the generic markers of the standardised Gothic in contemporary culture.
Referencing this shared preoccupation with artifice and appropriation, the blatant artifice of photocopies, cut outs and synthetic materials, more fake than real behave like these standard clichés in totally failing t ...[more]
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Work of art I would like to make
The Carpathian mountains, castles, arches, heroines, villains and velvet are the standards of such an ultimate Gothic experience, a moment of otherness and disruption.
Working predominantly in maquettes alongside a program of research in the studio, I intend to continue advancing towards real scale. Integrating sound, surface and lighting with these standards to construct a contrived, pseudo Gothic landscape intended to facilitate and examine the paradoxical pursuit of an intimate disruption through the universal language of Gothic.
Site-specific installation has evolved to be the natural mode for these ideas, so if chosen for the New Sensations I would seize the opportunity to identify and transform an appropriate aspect of the gallery, be it interior or exterior, ‘white space’ or other.
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My Artworks (6)
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