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Allyson Austin | |||
Allyson Austin |
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Enquire about Allyson Austin Using the simplest, most direct form of printmaking; monotypes, Allyson Austin's powerful and arresting work confronts the earth's most dynamic, natural phenomena. From twisters to glaciers, volcanic movements and forest fires, her work manipulates colour, texture, temperature and landscape to portray the earth's forces, its uncompromising grandeur and its fierce elemental power. |
ALLYSON AUSTIN BIOGRAPHY
Born 1968 St Helens EDUCATION EXHIBITIONS AWARDS STATEMENT Writing about the ideas and concepts behind artwork is not easy, often feeling that if one could say in words what the work is about, then the work would present itself in the form of a book, which it does not. Fundamentally my work concerns itself with the dynamics of the weather and the natural environment and their subsequent effects, both temporal and spiritual, upon the landscape and ourselves. One of my main objectives is to maintain a global, international overview of the subject, hence my work has taken me to such places as Iceland, Morocco, the volcanoes of Italy and Sicily and my next planned trip is Greenland. Weather and the natural environment are multi-dimensional. The nature of their existence is very sensual, has touch, taste, temperature, shape, colour, time, volume, mass and space. Simultaneously the movements of these elements exist as both scientific and spiritual phenomenon. Dynamically these elements move and breathe together as a kind of global conversation. Organic in nature, elastic, moving, receding, clear and also ambiguous at the same time, they remain the last frontier and beyond any form of control. The movement of weather and natural phenomenon will always have its sense of mystery for us as spiritual beings and their effects upon us as civilisations will continue to be documented in many forms throughout our history. There is never an ‘absence’ of weather. It is metaphoric in the sense that it communicates to us aspects of ourselves, and temperamentally it is not dissimilar to our own nature as human beings. It can be easily anthropomorphised, we give it names and project characters and personalities onto it to build patterns of behaviour, in an attempt to explain erratic, contrasting, violent and docile demeanour. It is this metaphoric comparison, which forms the conceptual content of my work. |
Allyson Austin - Hide and Seek
Allyson Austin - Blot
Allyson Austin - Champion