LAURA WAITE
Drawing is the backbone of my practice; I use it as a way of thinking and remembering. It is so easy to get caught up in the daily grind of to-do lists and places to be. So I use drawing as a quiet space in which to think, to contemplate what it is I am trying to say, or to simply focus on the process of putting marks on a page. Drawing is like a language in that it is inherent and universal; utilising line and form can elicit memory as easily as a conversation, so through my work I explore this. As a culture we have a learnt way of looking; we identify and remember based on given rules and learnt regulations: For example, I remember what a chair is because I have been taught that it has four legs, a base and a back. My recent work aims to challenge this through drawing, sculpture and photography, by deconstructing objects and picking over the remains, until what is arrived at is a concentration of colour, texture and pattern. Something our memories cannot make sense of.
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