Jera May
I am neurodiverse and not quite fitting in has created an endless questioning of norms which has driven my practice.
As an artist and an educator, I am exploring inclusive approaches to drawing and making and thinking about drawing as a way to connect. Process is important to me, recently I have been developing experimental drawing activities and drawing tools.
I also work with found objects and make collages, in the studio or in collaboration in education and community projects.
I enjoy working with something — an old drawing, object, map, story, or place. Using collaging and analogue image making processes to reflect on lived experience, imagine or instigate change.
I’m interested in landscape/ecology and cosmology.
Writing on 'The Delirium of Joy', The artist and writer Ambrosine Allen describes;
“I felt what May had created was a kind of ghostly archive, where real landscapes are layered with inner more metaphorical landscapes and connections are formed between past and present, fact and fiction. I left thoughtful about the idea of 'sculptural film', impressed by both the physical power of the installation and the romantic illusions of the projected media, seduced by how you can get lost somewhere in-between.”
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