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Stella Tripp

Exeter
Mixed media work exploring the absurdity of life and the nature of reality, both gentle and brutal: the fragility of the world and our engagement with it.
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My work involves a challenging exploration of what art can do. An awareness of the history of art informs and enriches the visual language I use. Years ago, in America, I stopped using rectangular stretched canvas and started building makeshift constructions to paint on, that better reflected my situation and my state of mind. I studied art from different cultures and times: exploring the nature of art in the light of cultural and societal conditioning opened my eyes to unlimited possibilities.

I work completely openly, questioning everything and making connections. Inspiration comes from the totality of experience: things I think, feel, hear, remember, as well as what I see; and I interpret it using a broad art vocabulary in a variety of media. The process of creating is important: an engagement with the physical sensuality of materials; the challenge of combining real shapes and textures with painted ones: the alchemy of transformation. I like to work around the edges and in the gaps: between drawing, painting and sculpture, between figurative work and abstraction - exploring the nature of reality, both gentle and brutal: the fragility of the world and our engagement with it – and revelling in the language of art.

 

Scaffold

Shelter

To Derbyshire And Back

Shore Up

Plié

Displace Meant Activity

Small Worlds

listening towers

HOLDING THE CHAOS

CHAOS DATA

GRID REF CHAOS

MAPPING THE CHAOS

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Highlights: 21 - 27 October, 2024

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