I had been a writer, sound artist and curator for over a decade when my visual art practice arrived, fully formed. I create using the same poetic approach devised in my writing, which in turn evolved through my sound, and appears here in paint. What appears abstract, is actual. I began with a mound of paints and rubbish that filled my house following two art project closures and the ending of a painful relationship. I felt dumped on and polluted, and had to make art out of those shadows. Each painting weaves found materials and debris from the topic, the time, or the trauma i am exploring (sometimes all three) and wefts personal artefacts, ephemera, my poetry and journal instincts, and composes through flow a knowing that exists in the back of my brain through somatic processing a painting which is wholly right within itself.
Some of my pieces are available to own, AND some contain artefacts far too personal to ever pass on.
I have exhibited my work at:
Henrikks
The Tallyrand
The Peer Hat
Unitarian Church, Todmorden, for the Unterranean Festival
The Nico Ditch
… finding land from docking sounds around for decades, hearing pained years refrained without voice reframed a celebration of agonising solitude to finally paint itself within, without permission arrived unknown and fully formed within itself to share outside visual ensembles glued into assemblage through her soul to you. finding form from artefacts and life’s debris, journalled ink and broken bones, a poetic form sonic homed its way through paint remained and cast our boards from storage into life to keep herself breathing …
Anne Louise Kershaw. 