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Taking stock: some images from my talk

9/11/2013

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It has been a busy week for me. On Monday I presented some of my work to a group of artists at Werkstadt in Neukölln.  It was a really useful exercise, allowing me to take stock of what I have done over the past three months and to see how people responded to my new work. I showed works on paper, which I have posted on this blog, and also three recently finished canvas pieces, which are below. It has been freeing for me to work on paper for a while, but ultimately my interest lies in the materiality of canvas and therefore this is the direction I want to take forward. 

We discussed how the choice of frame affects my work, making the canvas image secondary to the formal framing devices of painting. Rejecting the frame completely, as in Untitled (dandelions), brings the canvas and drawing centre stage. The work becomes a unique object rather than a framed picture. We also talked about the effect of unpicking and resewing a painted work, as shown in the details of the works below. I am drawn to this destruction of a carefully prepared image, because traces of the original remain in the resewn canvas, but are abstracted in a way which is largely out of my control. This has opened a new path for me, which I expect will see me, needle in hand for the next few months, methodically destroying canvas drawings I have recently made. 
All photographs: Bridget H Jackson

Other artists presenting that evening were Héctor Prats, who creates intriguing surreal drawings echoing themes from the Enlightenment, and Jonatan Nilsson, who draws from small zine-style drawings to paste-ups.  
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Tina Wortley
9/11/2013 05:37:37 am

Good to see your recent work from Berlin. I do like the textures and colours of the painted fabrics. It will be interesting to see how your work develops next.

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    Bridget H Jackson is a painter, currently travelling in Europe but usually based in London

    I re-present the familiar in my paintings. The canvas surface on which an image normally sits becomes the focus of the work through unpicking and sewing. Similar forms are repeated over and over again until the source imagery is unrecognisable. My work records the everyday passage of time, moments which would not normally merit attention, often directly through the very act of their making. 

    The materiality of the media I use is particularly important because my work is economical in its imagery. Over the past year I have started to make my own paints and dyes from minerals and plants.  I like the contrast of using very traditional means of painting in work which is outwardly abstract. 

    www.BridgetHJackson.com

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