noelle genevier
Noelle Genevier lives and works in Surrey and has recently completed a Fine Art MA. Noelle Genevier’s multi-disciplinary work is based in materiality where paper takes precedence. The interdisciplinary practice includes installations, collage, screen printing, zine production and digital design. The work contains themes of the everyday and nature with a focus on the environment. The convergence of matter and meshing of materials reflects the search for a new comprehension of how the world works and where humans reside within it. Noelle has had several exhibitions over the past five years including a public installation for the National Trust, Dapdune Wharf and Surrey Hills Arts, an ongoing residency and collage workshop delivery with Waterman’s Arts, featured in an exhibition at Bloc Projects, the London Group, Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield and Artizan Gallery, Torbay and is a member of an artist group, Splynta Collective.
The work is looking at entanglement and the embedding of old knowledge into new concepts creating new systems with which to view the future. The flow of ideas back and forth into the past, through the present into the future weaving new stories. The entwining of technology with historical wisdom and practises can be seen in the work. It looks at the resilience of plants and what can be learnt from this.
Through the unseen the work reflects on the natural world using the medium of collage, screen printing and digital design. The work looks at the complex connections and associations we have with our surroundings. It teases out the layers of information that are contained in a single viewpoint or image and recombines them speculatively. It looks in depth, beyond what is physically possible and at underlying constructs of things which are familiar to us. The work looks at the unseen: things that are seen but not noticed – veins on a leaf the sewn stitches on a seam, things that cannot be seen with the naked eye, abstract things: ideas, thoughts, dreams. Things that are out of the line of sight on the periphery of our vision. The areas out of focus in a photograph, the space between what we see, its translation in our mind to its definition – the conglomeration of shapes and colours that become interpreted by language, experience and knowledge. It considers the idea of reality; is the thing we see actually what it is?
The conventional view we have of things and how we communicate with them is challenged in the work which is influenced by Jane Bennett’s Vibrant Matter; in which she asks the viewer to envisage creating a new way of looking at the world. A view which does away with the hierarchical idea that humans are the only agents on the planet. The work embodies Jane Bennett’s idea that we are all interconnected as humans and with our environment. All things (human, living, non-human and non-living) are made up of several parts each part working to maintain a whole and to stay connected to other parts this can be seen in the collages where each image supports is neighbour through colour, texture and subject matter. These interlocking networks (or patterns) and interconnection are something that can be found in the work.
