Eimear FriersBorn in Ireland. Lives in: Belfast
Glasgow School of Art
In a society becoming more and more mediated my work addresses aspects of the often grotesque, humorous, absurd yet seductive visual world of popular commercial culture. My source material draws together a diverse bank of images from powder pink chicken nugget paste, to arresting headlines such as “murder mayhem special!”, to photographs of a holiday in Lanzarote when I was 10, to Dr Seuss's graphic cartoons. When selecting images I look for compelling formal qualities, which I then directly or abstractly translate into painting.
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Work of art I would like to makeThe work I want to make in the future has the same objective; to provide an optically engaging, even escapist experience and paralleling my source imagery; by exploring what we can be visually seduced by I play with and challenge perceptions of what is considered 'beautiful'.
Currently, my body of work combines portraiture, still life and abstraction within painting, there is a balance between the illustrative and the purely formal and in certain paintings the two meet. I paint by referring to collages and drawings and more recently from small scale sculptures and found objects, for example black PVC strips, a gold bikini or a friend's banana wearing glasses in the studio. I select these for certain physical properties I am drawn to.
I want to construct still lives combining collections of objects, some found, some made by me and paint from these. I would like my work have a physical immediacy; operating within the visual and universally interpretable. |
My Artworks (6)
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