Facts and Figurines: Solo Exhibition

MAKE/SPACE from October 2nd - 26th. This exhibition was heartfelt personal expression, and a dynamic use of space. A rotating installation of furniture, plants, and items from my home created intimacy and warmth. Paintings done in-situ over the duration of the exhibition were integrated into the final display.

Image by Cherie Morton

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A gift, a souvenir, or a tool. Something discarded and found again. An idol. Each object tells a story, and maybe even a story about Who We Are. Some objects, like figurines are designed to represent something else. Some have a separate and unrelated purpose too - a mug with a face or a handbag shaped like a pug driving a rickshaw. These objects are simultaneously themself, and a reproduction of an ‘other’.

Here I am investigating the ‘line’ between real and unreal, tangible and intangible. The uncanny. Is it a baby? A gingerbread man? A baby figurine? Is it just paint? The further we investigate, the more we realise that we rarely see life as it is, and instead we layer bias on top of the Now.

For society to function, to achieve goals, and to form relationships, we segment, label, define, and assign value to the universe. Our upbringing, cultural influences, current context, and anxieties about the future all become filters, influencing our perception of Now. In psychology and cognitive science these mental chunks of cosmos could be called “Schemata”. These “Schemata” become like a language through which we perceive events, objects, creatures, and people - Life.

We can look at a painting as a representation of an object, person, or idea, and if we're lucky, for a moment we can simply look.