Artist's Statement
My practice is an exploration into self, fantasy and desires.
I am strongly influenced by my childhood fantasies; fairytales, castles and the loss of innocence. I am fascinated by the dichotomy between our fantasies and our real desires. I explore these ideas through films and performances but ultimately they reside in my paintings. My painting seeks a magical land of fantasy and fairytale.
When I use paint to represent my ideas I work to conjure the illusion of skin and containment in the body. For me paint is a way of building up cells and filth to allude to the surface of the skin. My painting makes the disgusting and repulsive become beautiful. The containable becomes uncontainable. The body becomes fluid, unfixed.
My present work delves deeper into this idea of containment; capturing the feeling that it is something awkward and difficult. This has brought me back to my teenage years, examining the desire to be something that the body won’t let itself be. I am thinking a lot about how we are able to stay in our own body and how the skin keeps us in. At the moment I am trying to push these ideas of containment of soul as well as body, stretching that sense of awkwardness.
Artist Curriculum Vitae
Date of Birth: 21 June 1986
Education:
2005-08 BA (Hons) Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art & Design
2004-05 Diploma in Foundation Studies (Art & Design) and Level 3 Award in Life Drawing, Chelsea College of Art & Design Shows and Exhibitions
Exhibitions:
2008 ‘Anticipation’, curated by Catriona Warren & Kay Saatchi. From 25th June until 3rd August. At Selfridges, 400 Oxford Street, London, W1A 2LR2008
2008 ‘In the Shadows’ 25th-30th July, The Crypt, St. Pancreas Church, Euston Road, London NW1 2BA
2008 ‘Degree Show 2008’, 14th – 19th June Chelsea College of Art & Design, in Millbank
2008 ‘New works by Lola Bunting, Tom Green, Sarah Lederman and Margot Sanders’, 10th – 11th January.
Group show consisting of new work by four Third Year BA Fine Art students at Chelsea College, in Millbank
2008 ‘Music on the open water when the day is already becoming a memory’, 12th – 17th May 2007. Group show at the Red Gate Gallery
2007 ‘Ripeness’, 8th Feb. – 8th March 2007 At the Flaxon Ptootch Gallery
2007 ‘Token’, Chelsea at Bethnal Green Old Town Hall, 11th – 14th January
2006 ‘This Way Up’, Temporary Contemporary Gallery in Deptford. A group show with work by students from Chelsea College of Art
2005 ‘Foundation End of Year Show’ held at Chelsea College, in Millbank