DISCIPLINE: FINE ART & TEXTILES
PERSONAL STATEMENT:
My current practice is a response to my own experience of feeling alienated and uncomfortable growing up undiagnosed autistic. Through sickly colours and repetitive marks, I am searching for ways to represent a deeply complex feeling. By combining science and fiction I am creating a contrast between outward perspectives from professionals with my own inward emotional experiences.
In between my drawing and painting practice I experiment with textiles. The sensory experience of crochet interconnects with the heightened experience of my daily life. For me crochet brings a sense of play to my practice, a place to vent and process whilst doing something comfortably repetitive. Bringing a hidden disability into something 3D and tangible feels validating for my practice as well helping to strengthen the imagery in my paintings. Colour and materials are important when painting as I need to consider my own sensory needs and sensitivities to certain surfaces, textures and sounds for example. I have found watercolour to be perfect, I can achieve bright colours, which can be built up gradually, and I also like how the paint applies to the surface of paper.
My colours are often influenced by the music I am listening to as I am very rarely painting without it, the way that I process information means I tend to group different things together, such as a certain sound will be paired with a matching colour, this comes in handy when creating my art. For me to be able to fully embrace the way my brain works when painting further highlights the restraints that are forced upon me in other aspects of my life.
My practice aims to confront my own discomfort living with autism as well as my response to other peoples. Depicting struggle, isolation and confusion to reach a place of understanding for myself.
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CONTACT DETAILS and LINKS:
Instagram: meganfilsell.art
Email: filsellmegan@gmail.com
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