Claire MooreBorn in United Kingdom. Lives in: Glasgow
Glasgow School of Art
I think that painting is important. I see it as being intrinsically linked to cultural memory and an ideal medium to link the past to the present.
The memorial presence of the past takes many forms and serves many purposes, ranging from nostalgic longing for what is lost to polemical use of the past to reshape the present. The paintings I make deal with both of these aspects, and serve as a longing and a warning as well as an active means or reshaping the past.
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Work of art I would like to makeCultural recall and nostalgia are not merely something of which you happen to be a bearer but something that you actually perform.
Throughout my MFA the work produced has primarily focused on Eastern European culture, in particular Polish and Russian sources. I believe that it is important for artists working at the moment to begin a linking process with artists working within Eastern Europe, and for both to recognise the co-dependencies within the history of East and West. I do not think that any country from Western Europe can be directly compared to a country in Eastern Europe. However, this in itself is an important reason to forge links, especially in countries such as Scotland where a certain kind of socialist nostalgia is found.
I have begun the process of analysing my relationship with my own cultures past investigating both personal and cultural supressed memories, which I intend to combine with the work based on Eastern Europe. By doing this I hope to encourage the viewer in the West to think about their own personal relationship with the past and allow them to question their local nostalgic notions. It also encourages the viewer in the East to think about their own very different experiences of nostalgia. With this reflection hopefully an acceptance and openness will follow whereby nostalgia will no longer be a misunderstood and supressed feeling, but instead a tool that is utilized to fully interact with and question the past in order to interact with the present.
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My Artworks (6)
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