Aileen McEwenBorn in United Kingdom. Lives in: Belfast
Glasgow School of Art
I am interested in cultural definitions of beauty, taste and value, focusing on the play between individuality and the wider regulative forces of society. My work engages with illusion and desire as it relates to domestic interiors as a symbol of culturally defined, aspirational living. The work takes the form of paintings, depicting interior spaces that appear staged or false, that function as totems of aspiration and prescribed cultural ideals.
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Work of art I would like to makeFocusing on palette, brushwork, and surface, alongside representation of space, I intend to create idealised, desirable spaces, whilst simultaneously conceding the artifice of painting and the psychological space it creates.
“An illusion that -unlike a copy- is superior to reality in that it recreates and perfects the original.” Stephan Berg, The Dark Side of the American Dream, Gregory Crewdson, Ostfildern-Ruit; Portchester (2005)
I intend to further explore the semiotics of colour, as well as the narrative implications of introducing figure into staged space, sourcing ubiquitous and familiar images of aspiration from popular media and the history of painting.
If selected I hope to continue making work that engages with cultural prescribed ideals and values through the act of painting. It would enable me to continue to develop my work on the large scale. |
My Artworks (5)
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