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Pushed, bewitched, or just had enough.....

Suzanne Carroll

She/her

Following many useful years, my stack of carefully curated earthenware bowls toppled from the edge of their shelf. They ricocheted off unforgiving flagstones and shattered. I knelt with regret on the cold floor as I gathered their exposed earthy innards.
In the light of the late afternoon I clinically laid them out on a sheet of white paper. I photographed their curved bellies starkly juxtaposed against jagged edges. Photographs from an inconclusive autopsy revealed fantastical landscapes and puzzling still lives.
I journeyed back and forth between the increasing evidence: drawings, photographs, mono-prints and case notes, all of which spoke of the remains. Preliminary works on paper seemed to shift somewhere between abstract and representational. Finally, without any prompt or ceremony, I dressed each one in a fitting acrylic palette and laid them to rest one by one on a carefully prepared canvas.

Collision. Acrylic on canvas, 90 x 75cm

Collision. Acrylic on canvas, 90 x 75cm

In Limbo. Acrylic on canvas, 90 x 90cm

In Limbo. Acrylic on canvas, 90 x 90cm

Betwixt. Acrylic on canvas, 90 x 75cm

Betwixt. Acrylic on canvas, 90 x 75cm

Between. Acrylic on canvas, 90 x 75cm

Between. Acrylic on canvas, 90 x 75cm

In repose. Acrylic on canvas, 90 x 75cm

In repose. Acrylic on canvas, 90 x 75cm

Bewitched. Acrylic on canvas, 90 x 75cm

Bewitched. Acrylic on canvas, 90 x 75cm

Degree Show. Installation shot 1

Degree Show. Installation shot 1

Degree Show. Installation shot 2

Degree Show. Installation shot 2

Degree Show. Installation shot 3

Degree Show. Installation shot 3

Research

Collision. A4 samples on paper

Collision. A4 samples on paper

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