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Margot Sanders
Chelsea College Of Art & Design
Lives and works in London.
www.margotsanders.com
My main focus of interest is in the origins of the oral tradition and the associated folklore, particularly in how these tales were passed down and changed over time. Some of my characters are taken directly from folk tales, while others are my own interpretation and are also taken from my own imagination. Previously I have considered tales from Greek myth and while I still do I now have evolved and extended my timeline of the oral tradition and myth. These currently include earlier legends particularly that of the story of the great flood or Deluge mythology through tales such as the biblical Noah’s Ark and the Mesopotamian texts of the Epic of Gilgamesh. The flood itself evokes the theme of the body, almost a cluster of bodies both human and animal, man and woman a theme that has remained a fundamental part within my practice. This has developed and carried through into the landscape painting entitled The Sleepers, 2008. The bodies are beautifully washed ashore or the water has gradually seeped away leaving the bodies to gleam in the subtle mist of light that is their painted world. Paint as well as my gesture and activity of paint have now evolved into this framework, both acknowledging the identi...
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