For this show based on the silhouette, I wanted to do something different to the woodsy, foresty themes I like to do. I love 'urban fantasy' novels, so I have changed the foresty landscapes to fragments of city and surburban 'scapes' to contrast with the Mythical beasties that will be silhouetted on the front.
Dougie and I had fun making up titles for the 4 pieces the other day... Griffin Lane, Pegasus Street, Rasselbock Corner and Cockatrice Crescent.
My shortened artist statement for the show:
My work draws on narratives found in folk and fairy tales, focusing on themes of transformation. These pieces are inspired by the fiction subgenre
‘urban-fantasy’; where folk tale creatures dwell in city streets, a
glimmer of enchantment enters the everyday. The silhouette, like any
good tale fires up the imagination by requiring us to flesh out the detail from our own store of memory and dream.
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