8. 19/06/13
Painting Experience
- a strange place in one's practice
A talk by the artist
Rebecca Meanley
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| Rebecca Meanley Dissembling #2 2012 |
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| Rebecca Meanley Hybrid Painting 2013 |
A strange place in one’s practice – an odd in-between place
– a transition - an impossible to ignore experience - the impact on one’s
practice
Working from one’s own experience - is this self-indulgence
or self-analysis, reality or authentic life experience?
Painting as a place which absorbs all of these domains,
forms hybrids, finds a voice
From a place slightly dumbfounded by the inability to
articulate an experience too great – to seek to manifest such experience in
painting – through painting
To try to describe, to try to solve
Work becomes a vehicle with which to communicate or attempt
to –
Isn’t that what it’s supposed to do?
Not abstraction versus representation BUT how can the two
polar opposites fold into one another to form another kind of entity?
And how can the artist navigate this space – to seek to find
– to interpret, to fathom, to understand, to try to solve
A very honest consideration of how a life-threatening
experience can affect ones’ practice.
Rebecca Meanley will discuss the impact serious illness has
had on her practice, with a close analytical look at the last year in
painting.
Dissembling#2 is currently on show at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
More works can be viewed at: http://www.rebeccameanley.com/
