Shop Talk 2015-2017
Shop Talk explores artefacts from a shop located close to where I live. Viewed from the street, the entire double fronted windows are filled with shelving structures with a random display of objects ranging from garden dwarfs to religious effigies. Decorative items stacked, wrapped and facing various directions are relic-like forms waiting for interpretation. The fact that some are not placed in a strict order or even standing upright motivates me to think about composing them differently within my artwork. My own background and associations propel me to rethink the focus for selected objects and to create different narratives about them. Looking through the dusty windowpane gives a sense of peering into old windows of an apartment block. Each decorative item has an individual temperament and appears as a character within its particular frame. The still life/objects and the expressive materiality of the mediums investigated sheds light on ways to narrate suburban culture, ethnicity and the process of gentrification.
