Power is seemingly everywhere – in our languages, norms, practices and in art.
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Yet, art also offers us life worlds beyond power.
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TOWARDS FULLNESS
Art can offer us a sense of fullness where life seems richer, better or more what it should be – a sense often disavowed in our instrumentalised, commodified and science-based order.
Like many artistic quests, mine started with my mother, who raged inarticulately against the patriarchal subordination of women. My landscape-based painting practice folds its’ sense-based work across the stains of patriarchal/colonial violence to lay claim to a pluralising life-force ethos not constrained by power.
As the titles of my exhibitions in the United Kingdom over the last two decades attest: Pulse 2001, Coming Alive 2013, Taking Risks 2014, Going South 2015, A Dilating Gaze 2016, Living the Fold 2017 and Towards Deep and Radiant Time 2018, this painting practice makes its slow-burning, ecstatic and mesmerising way through vulnerability, rage and desire, towards the fullness of being-with one-another and the world, beyond power.