Artist's Statement

 

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      My work involves the creation of large-scale mixed media drawings based on observations

      of both the natural and built environments.

 

 

     My studio practice combines experimental techniques with a range of traditonal drawing

     media on paper.  Incorporating a variety of methods to manipulate my images, I usually

     work on several themes concurrently, allowing the visual connections and disparities to

     inform separate bodies of work.  Cuts, tears and adhered seams are necessary structural

     features of my drawings, revealing the production process of the work and adding a

     distinctive quality of mark.

 

 

     The making and unmaking, collaging and reconstructing sections of the compositon gives

     the work a three-dimensional quality which references my subject matter.  Furthermore,

     representional elements of the drawing are disrupted by this process, which flattens and

     adds a sense of ambiguity to the images. The contrasting readings of space thus created

     and the increasingly large scale of the drawing installations have become central features

     of my work.

 

     Cath Brophy

      September 2009

 

               

                     

                     

                     

        

 

 
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