JANETTE BYRNE
My work explores human interaction and isolation within the domestic environment. The concepts are highly personal and explore memory to reveal hidden meanings.
Metaphors go beyond these themes to examine a broader interest in the human condition. Thus meaning is elusive and hopefully triggers a response from the viewer.
I employ a range of techniques culled from the history of painting and integrate these under the influence of contemporary artists:
Having not yet come to terms with an austere childhood I have yet been unable to make ‘closure’. My art has become a reflective diary, a documentation of childhood. I photographed many Dolls at the Museum of Bolton Archives and they live on in my memory: as such they are reinterpreted and enveloped in the sadness I felt at that age. Each expression and state of dress does not always convey their innocence. …for they always were innocent ! Haunting backgrounds, poses and expressions confront the viewer…. the doll gaze…sometimes evil, sometimes fearful………..
I aim to have develop tension between representational and abstract notions of recall. Thus a flat surface can be used to create the illusion of space, form and atmosphere.
Rather than displaying direct narratives a limited amount of information is given by means of signifiers. The scene is set to produce a stage-managed degree of mystery from which the viewer can fill-in the gaps and reach his own conclusion to an open-ended scenario.
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