Using nostalgic objects from my childhood home, my work references the relationship between traditional painting concerns and the process of photography. It manifests as an on-going inquiry into the relationship between matter, light and cloth; the tension between illusion and reality, and a pre-occupation with the hidden and the ephemeral in a personal dialogue between self and place.
I am interested in how photography can trap coincidental moments of light and negatice space transforming inherited domestic remnants into ambiguous images which reference an inner sense of place and time. The work also reveals subtle changes in perception between one moment and the next. These intangible moments are then organised into the framework of a tangible personal collection
My recent digital movie work is an intuitive arrangement of the shadows of these 'bits and bobs'. They emerge from a muslin shroud as vague images which also re-discover my childhood memories and imagination. Incidental moments connect with the inner speech and indeterminate space of nature, articulating a transcendent sense of time.
The impulse to breathe new life into discarded matter, to pick up the threads of ancestral activities, speaks of a need to find a sense of rootedness within a discourse of endlessness; a desire to still the blur and momentarily be transported to a re-enchanted space.
INFO
- Name: Julie Lawrence
- Country: GB
- Website: www.julielawrence.co.uk
- Discipline: FINE_ARTIST
