Jayne Anita Smith
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This new body of work has developed over the last few years and follows a shift in practice, embracing a more fluid and spontaneous origination. At their inception, images are generated through a process of organic drawings rooted in memory, providing the foundation of the work and underpinning each of the subsequent layers as they build. The combination of drawing and painting is integral to the narrative of the work, creating form and space for questions to be posed and interrogated. Using drawing and painting in tandem to play with the boundaries between figurative and abstract, these heady, overtly hallucinatory configurations play in the spaces between the conscious and unconscious, where emotion and memory are rooted in the instinctive and primal.
By generating space as well as narrative, I am building a vital, immersive world that echoes the emotional disturbance of the struggle between self and other; one that seeks to envelop its observer and gives a platform from which to interrogate the darkest, most chaotic elements of our emotional experience. Aimimg to capture the disorientation of the increasing assault of the demands of a contemporary world, exploring its complex dichotomy with the essential human experience and the conflict that arises as we wrestle with that constant dialogue.
Selected Exhibitions and Events:
2014
?May. Drawing project, Porthmeor Studios
January. Flux, NSA curated exhibition. Heseltine Gallery, Truro
2013
November. Drawing the line. Millennium Gallery, St.Ives, Cornwall
September. Lucid, Bo Lee Gallery, Clerkenwell, London
September. Suspended Sentences, The Coombe, Newlyn, Cornwall
March/April. Fiat Lux, TAap Painting Collaboration, Cornwall Arts Biennale, Truro
March/April. Limbo, Leth Group exhibition, Truro
March. Residency, March Fourth, CMR Gallery, Redruth
2012
December. Project 2012, Mile End Art Pavillion, London
October. NOAC, Chichester and London
October. Drawing Exhibition, Bucca Gallery, Newlyn
October/December. RWA Autumn open exhibition, Bristol
August. New visions:Contemporary painting in uncertain worlds, CMR Gallery, Redruth
July/August. Wales International painting prize, BEEP 2012. Swansea
May. The Other Art Fair, Marylebone, London
April/May. Odds against tomorrow, Bearspace, Deptford, London
March. The Door Painting Prize, Centrespace Gallery, Bristol
2011
September. Flickering Visions, Morvah Schoolhouse Gallery, Cornwall
August/September. Uncharted Landscapes, NSA at STISA Gallery, St.Ives
May/July. Mostyn Open, Llandydno, Wales
April/July. PRINT! Exchange Gallery, Penzance
February. Salon Photo Prize 2011, Matt Roberts Arts, Vyner Street, London
2010
December. Silent Signals, Crypt Gallery, St.Ives
October/November. NOAC, Chichester
October. Salon Art Prize 2010, Vyner Street, London
September. Threadneedle Prize, Mall Gallery, London
June. FringeMK Painting Competition, Milton Keynes
May/June. After The End, Elysium Gallery, Swansea, Wales
March/April. A Strange Country, PZ Gallery, Penzance
2009
November. NOAC, Chichester
October/November. Pushing Print, The Pie Factory, Margate, Kent
June. Degree show, University College Falmouth
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