Remnants of Them, Parallel Culture and Horizontal Painting
- Submitting institution
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Norwich University of the Arts
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- NUA-SLW-01
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- Aldeburgh LOOKOUT; The Crypt St Marylebone Parish Church London; Lewisham Art House; Enterprise House London
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of first exhibition
- -
- Year of first exhibition
- 2014
- URL
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https://nua.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/17342
- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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- Research group(s)
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C - Pattern and Chaos
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- The series of works, produced since 2012, derive from experiments with paintings in multi-media presented off the wall. Longworth-West uses traditional painterly tropes in dialogue with experiences of reading space, material and subject in the contemporary image world.
Research starts with found source material, which Longworth-West manipulates through drawing to create edited and abstracted forms, a process that she documents on Instragram©. These images are then recontextualised over a surface of traditional handmade gesso ground, which is pigmented and applied in layers. Sanded to a smooth finish, colour is fused in between the overlaid gesso to produce an unpredictable and inconsistent surface. Longworth-West exploits the incidental qualities of the materiality of paint while also exploring the limits of the recognisable image. Showing both the surface and the picture simultaneously, the traditional painting techniques employed are a means of emphasising the material quality of the painted surface, and also an intimation of the many disconnected images we see, click, swipe and share each day.
The physical nature of painting is considered further through Longworth-West’s presentation of her work on custom-made plinths or tables, exploring the
dimensional space that painting can occupy. These display modes are also a visual link to the layering process of image-making used whilst composing a painting.
The series produced three artworks from 2014 to 2016: Remnants of Them (2014); Parallel Culture (2016) and Horizontal Painting (2016). These have been exhibited
in one solo and a number group exhibitions in the period.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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