Primary Information

Profile Type

Artist

Category

Photographers

About

Taking inspiration from Dutch and Spanish vanitas paintings from the 16th and 17th century, my mixed media collages incorporate artifacts with in the traditional construct of the still life. This combining the present and past speaks to memory and personal legacy both the decomposition of the natural (such as rotting fruit and withering flowers) and the breakdown of man made objects (reference the physical body and mortality).

Much of my work explores the power of object to bear witness to intangible ideas and emotional truths. The work employs the iconography and symbols of common every day objects means of communication. The use of photography mixed medium, itself adds to the irony when viewed with in the historical framework of vanitas painting, evoking the viewer to call to the mind to question?

Contact Information

Country

United Kingdom

State

West Yorkshire

City / Town

Liversedge

Address

Hare Park House,
Hare Park Lane
Liversedge
West Yorkshire

Zip code

WF158EW

Phone

01274864555

E-mail

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Web Site

http://www.vanitas01.carbonmade.com/projects/4275687

Follow me on:

http://www.glosom.com/sueskitt

And:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sueskitt

College / University

Batley School of Art and Design

Graduation Year

2009