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(1093) Valerie O'Regan- Red 1
150
About this artwork
My response to the image is an admission of cultural perceptions and referencing of Russian Constructivist symbolist shapes and forms working in part harmony and in contrast to the pre-soviet era traditional forms.
“The constructivists worked in materials, but in an abstract fashion, as a formal problem mechanically applying technique to their art. Constructivism did not take into account the organic relation between the material and the tensile capacity, its working character. Essentially it is only as an outcome of the dynamic force resulting from these mutual relations that a vitally inevitable form is born” Camilla Gray.
I have used the alternative photographic process of Cyanotype to capture a nostalgic and other worldly view of St Basil’s Cathedral in contrast to the vibrant and sloganistic brushstroke of the red ink.
About Valerie
“Because human identity is woven within place those that disappear, the ones that come and go, are disconcerting. Lost places hint at hidden histories as well as alternative futures.” Alastair Bonnett
I am drawn to the romanticism of rural relics, defunct rusting metal and crumbling stone representing monuments past and past lives. I am transfixed by these disparate fragments and their imagined stories and the excitement gained with chance discoveries of clues and marks from the past.
I live rurally surrounded by coastline and forestry. I photograph, record through drawing, note taking in situ before returning to the studio to print using the early 19th century process of Cyanotype. From these cyanotypes I make collages/cut-outs on Intaglio and Collagraph plates ready for ‘reprinting’ into final compositions.
Collage, and layering of processes on the page follows and responds to the notion of the surrounding landscape having the same layering, the same collage of disparate processes and functions.
Sometimes the environment is hard to comprehend. Individual happenings, functional interventions make sense, but over time meaning becomes obscure and somehow arbitrary, messy, but in a satisfying way. The works recreate this sense.
It cannot be arbitrary, when some experienced compositions, relics and materials, seem to vie for attention.
Valerie O’Regan 2020
Link to Valeries’s Art Aviso profile HERE
Valerie was provided with the following page from Newnes’ Pictorial Knowledge Encyclopedia:
Volume 4
My response to the image is an admission of cultural perceptions and referencing of Russian Constructivist symbolist shapes and forms working in part harmony and in contrast to the pre-soviet era traditional forms.
“The constructivists worked in materials, but in an abstract fashion, as a formal problem mechanically applying technique to their art. Constructivism did not take into account the organic relation between the material and the tensile capacity, its working character. Essentially it is only as an outcome of the dynamic force resulting from these mutual relations that a vitally inevitable form is born” Camilla Gray.
I have used the alternative photographic process of Cyanotype to capture a nostalgic and other worldly view of St Basil’s Cathedral in contrast to the vibrant and sloganistic brushstroke of the red ink.
About Valerie
“Because human identity is woven within place those that disappear, the ones that come and go, are disconcerting. Lost places hint at hidden histories as well as alternative futures.” Alastair Bonnett
I am drawn to the romanticism of rural relics, defunct rusting metal and crumbling stone representing monuments past and past lives. I am transfixed by these disparate fragments and their imagined stories and the excitement gained with chance discoveries of clues and marks from the past.
I live rurally surrounded by coastline and forestry. I photograph, record through drawing, note taking in situ before returning to the studio to print using the early 19th century process of Cyanotype. From these cyanotypes I make collages/cut-outs on Intaglio and Collagraph plates ready for ‘reprinting’ into final compositions.
Collage, and layering of processes on the page follows and responds to the notion of the surrounding landscape having the same layering, the same collage of disparate processes and functions.
Sometimes the environment is hard to comprehend. Individual happenings, functional interventions make sense, but over time meaning becomes obscure and somehow arbitrary, messy, but in a satisfying way. The works recreate this sense.
It cannot be arbitrary, when some experienced compositions, relics and materials, seem to vie for attention.
Valerie O’Regan 2020
Link to Valeries’s Art Aviso profile HERE
Valerie was provided with the following page from Newnes’ Pictorial Knowledge Encyclopedia:
Volume 4
The story of the world and it’s peoples
The Red Square Moscow
Artist:
Valerie O\\\'ReganMedium:
Cyanotype with red Acrylic InkDimensions:
A4Price:
150 EUR