Glasgow School of Art Degree Show 2024
‘Uhtceare’ Series
The 'Uhtceare' series acts as a euphemism, delving into uncharted landscapes of trauma and a latent impact on one's reality. I specifically dive into the depths of my own experience with sexual violence and subsequent trauma, examining a liminality between ‘healing’ and ‘re-living’ through the lens of object-oriented ontology. Within this, memory forms a key component in that I study and memorise my own photographs and digitally rendered images. I paint what I can remember, resulting in lurid, uncanny landscapes. Inside these portraits of lilo's lies an act of catharsis, abstraction and then transference of self. The vulnerability that comes with the conceptual elements in my work is something that I am constantly resisting. Consequently, I am exploring A.I and how I can collaboratively work with it, rather than against it. I am informed by A.I's generative design, in which we take turns to influence one another in a repetition of input and output. I ask A.I the impossible: to respond emotionally towards my work which generates paradoxical imagery. I find, also paradoxically, that A.I’s unfeeling to(Content Warning: Mention of sexual violence)ward my subject matter is very grounding. It provides a buffer between my work and myself as the artist. This results in a blended body of work with endless possibilities on how the conversations between A.I. and myself will evolve.