Artist in residence 2018 -19
RGB Exhibition in the GateHouse Gallery - Elizabeth College.
RGB colours are the colours of the screens we view every day, merging artificial reality with organic reality through projected light and filters.
The use of patterned Perspex as a physical filter does not only mimic these electronic screens but also mirrors the way people blur the organic reality of themselves with artificial representations. Pairing these images of obscured human figures with RGB-filtered natural objects calls attention to their organic roots.
What is artificial? What is reality?
Is there a separation between the real as being what you can touch and the real that the brain ‘sees’ in your mind’s eye? Where is the line?
When observing subjects on a screen, surely, they are only a trace or a representation of the real?
However, with new technology and virtual reality, the line is only getting more blurred. Your mind is the source of your reality, with emotion and sensory experiences all informing your perceptions of what is real. These personal circumstances are what your mind uses to inform your decisions as you piece together who people are through the signifiers you see without every truly knowing their personality.
It is therefore important that these images have been created in such a way that the viewer must piece together their content for themselves and may well imagine completely different human subjects to those actually pictured. This also leaves the viewer an opening to have an emotional response of their own without directing their reaction. Together these images create a space of contemplation rather than viewing a storyline that’s already been decided for you.
In their physical form, these prints are coupled in contrasting finishes to enhance their subject matter; the human images have a clear Perspex coating and the natural objects have a matte finish so that the materials used in the printing mimic their imagery with appropriate textures.
