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Reflection​: updated artists statement

~ Sarah-Jane Field ~ 2 Comments

Further refinement (11/09/2019)

Sarah-Jane Field’s interdisciplinary approach includes photography, writing and performance as she aims to identify feedback loops between lanaguage, culture and the material world. She is most interested in investigating the many shifts and transformations taking place today, changing how we see along with the definition of what is to be human.

Sarah-Jane’s work has appeared in PH Museum’s first mobile photography book (2020), Independent Photography magazine, fLIP (2019) and was chosen for several ShutterHub exhibitions, as well as pic-london’s After School Collective, amongst others.  She is also a portrait and event photographer, employed in and around London and is nearing the end of a photography degree with The Open College of the Arts (OCA), which she began 20 years after gaining a BA (Hons) in Acting received from Manchester Metropolitan University in 1994.

I took another looked at the artist’s statement I prepared for the work as I was sending something off and had to supply one – I had posted the draft here.  It was clunky so have refined, cut and shaved.

This seems much better than it was although there may be further changes.

I work with still, moving, original and found images, as well as text, aiming to explore shifts in our transformative world. I am interested in examining the feedback loops between matter and semiotics. I reject the notion of hero artists and single-authored, linear narratives – and embrace complexity, incoherence, entanglement, multiplicity and the possibility for radical change. At this time, it is a political act to embrace and value learning and the intellect as well as ‘feeling’ – and to aim for the highest common denominator: as such my work actively crosses disciplines and unashamedly asks much of viewers, with references to science, art history, and popular culture.

Reflection: artist’s statement draft

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I submitted something recently and so began thinking about an artist’s statement. We must supply one for BoW so here it is a start:

I work with still, moving, original and found images, as well as text, aiming to explore seismic structural shifts in our transformative world. I am interested in the constructions which emerge from and feed into language. I reject the notion of hero artists and single-authored, linear narratives. I embrace complexity, incoherence, entanglement, multiplicity and the possibility for radical change. At this time in our history, it is a political act to overcome man-made or linguistic barriers, and to embrace and value intellectualism as well as ‘feeling’ – and to aim for the highest common denominator: as such my work actively crosses disciplines and unashamedly asks much of viewers, with references to science, art history, and popular culture – in particular, Hollywood – pointing out the hypocrisy and double standards that Western society has upheld for centuries.