Six emerging contemporary female artists currently studying at the AUCB, exhibit an eclectic group of works, with themes as diverse as gender, love, sacred places and abstract conversations. Works include satirical and bold paintings, sculpture, assemblage, readymades, installation and bio art. The exhibitors are Diane Chipchase, Jill Clark, Gillian Goodridge, Yvonne Lockhart, Marianne Moggridge and Pats van Dam.

Thursday, 14 April 2011

Diane Chipchase




Bio Art is a new direction in Contemporary Art that is influencing my current thinking. It manipulates the processes of life by coaching biomaterials into specific shapes and behaviours. I am also interested in the field of Biosemiotics, the codes and communications that exist between living things, and wondering if this could increase to a co-operation between live and inanimate objects.

Examples of my previous work include growing grass in a metal filing cabinet, the drawers of which were then closed at intervals resulting in the death of the grass in a graduated process, as a representation of the layers of memory and its loss. Also I have trained ivy to grow up an internal wall in unnatural directions creating designs reminiscent of its sculptural forebears.

By creating a tangible object, that is tactile and evocative, I attempt to provoke an emotional response from the viewer as they engage with it. Whilst incorporating natural products and processes in what I do, the juxtaposition of the natural and man-made worlds and the potential symbiotic relationship between the two is a source of inspiration for me.
http://www.dianechipchase.com/

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  1. Anonymous2 May 2011 at 10:52

    Diane, I love your work, it is really up my street and always makes me smile. It is a soft organic surprise in an otherwise hard world.

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