shelley lafferty
Title: follow the strands
medium: image, video, simulation
description: Crossing through the in between; inhabit, hold within and link moments. Observations occur in the static and the shadows, with the intervening spaces becoming junctions of movement. Where will it take you?
bio
I am a recent MA Fine Art graduate after 25yrs working as an Architect, my works are expectedly spatial. With a personal interest in one’s identity, portraiture and the impact of grief, my research and art making has developed into the sphere of liminality, rites of passage and otherworldly spaces. Exploring themes of the experience of the liminality, navigation through it, from entering, being within and the journey itself. Contemplating moments of the unknown within the sensation of an other-worldly space.
Working digitally and with mixed media, between maquettes, photography, collage and hand drawing, works do not conclude, allowing them to transform and evolve, sometimes melding multiple works. The gift of time to reappraise and re-consider, as a manifesto, allows growth and reflection on continued life experiences.
The sociology of spaces, human interactions, reactions to and experiences of spaces is key to my making and line of enquiry in the works. The in-between moments are a mystery to be encountered. More recently my works are installations with audience decision making generating works as an output of the experience of being within a space. Creating a ‘token’ of experience to draw the audience into a space where the boundaries between the real and the virtual can blur.
shelley lafferty
Title: follow the strands
medium: image, video, simulation
description: Crossing through the in between; inhabit, hold within and link moments. Observations occur in the static and the shadows, with the intervening spaces becoming junctions of movement. Where will it take you?
bio
I am a recent MA Fine Art graduate after 25yrs working as an Architect, my works are expectedly spatial. With a personal interest in one’s identity, portraiture and the impact of grief, my research and art making has developed into the sphere of liminality, rites of passage and otherworldly spaces. Exploring themes of the experience of the liminality, navigation through it, from entering, being within and the journey itself. Contemplating moments of the unknown within the sensation of an other-worldly space.
Working digitally and with mixed media, between maquettes, photography, collage and hand drawing, works do not conclude, allowing them to transform and evolve, sometimes melding multiple works. The gift of time to reappraise and re-consider, as a manifesto, allows growth and reflection on continued life experiences.
The sociology of spaces, human interactions, reactions to and experiences of spaces is key to my making and line of enquiry in the works. The in-between moments are a mystery to be encountered. More recently my works are installations with audience decision making generating works as an output of the experience of being within a space. Creating a ‘token’ of experience to draw the audience into a space where the boundaries between the real and the virtual can blur.