Newcastle-based artist Holly Wheeler exhibited 3 photoshopped collages titled Well… this is awkward.
Here she offers us an insight into her ideas leading to the work.
"Initially I wanted to respond to the aesthetic properties of
Helen’s publication. The specific formatting, colour scheme and precision with
which it was assembled, readily caught my attention.
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I chose instead, to respond to the awkward silences and
fragmentation that punctuates the work. For me it reveals a shared discomfort
and uncertainty within the narrator and the reader as they are confronted by the
intimacy of the work. ‘Well…this is awkward’ is a light hearted attempt to
voice the internal critic and acknowledge a mutual sense of anxiety the work
might stir within the narrator, reader, author and artist."
layering/collage/photoshop/distance/green/online/advice/repetition/obsess
ive behaviour/repair/self-help/self-care/language/communication/thought/reality/
mental/internal/vanishing/merging/objects/mark
making/projection/distance/temporary/humorous/light hearted/lost/vibrancy/perception/displacement/uncertain
ty/uncontrollable/space/placement/fragile/ incomplete/unfinished/evolving/morphing/reshaped/indeterminate
/stuck
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