Reddam House
Ode to the Ordinary
Painting
Acrylic paint, cardboard, wallpaper
Confounded to find that frames of Venetian red and gilded gold result from little more than hefty cardboard boxes, my body of work expresses the ornate beauty of ‘the ordinary’. In a world tainted by burgeoning complexities, an increasing impulse arises for us to overcompensate – to constantly retaliate. Using a traditional Impressionist style, representations of half-used toothpaste tubes in cardboard boxes blur the boundaries between conventional artistic grandeur and modern mundanity. Thus, with my hand-crafted salon hang, I invite viewers to step back and see value in the ordinary because where beauty becomes simple, ‘simple’ becomes beauty.
My artmaking practice has been influenced by the study and interpretation of the artist Amelie Dillemann.