Fleur Patrick

Glass Curtains VI

Jackson's Painting Prize 2023, Bankside Gallery 2023
Oil, Pencil
Canvas
90 x 120 cm

£4,500

“This work is based on images found from internet searches. It’s important to me the places I paint derive from images I experience this way, rather than places I have actually been. This allows me, as the maker, to enter the space of the image in an imaginative and explorative way, as if for the first time. This alienation enables me to hold back my description of it; to say just enough but not too much. As a result, the painting hangs in the balance between representation and abstraction, between image and surface, solidity and fluidity. It becomes a kind of disintegrating hallucination. These dichotomies enhance the uncertainties already present in the image, concerning the function, condition and location of the subject matter. I have come to understand that these tensions, along with the types of images I choose, reflect my dislocated sense of belonging and express my own anxieties as a neurodivergent artist.

For me, the structural elements of the image provide necessary representational context in the form of a vaguely recognisable framework, within which the paint’s organic, material and happenstance properties can be allowed to disrupt and obscure. I think of it as a collaboration with the paint.”