Danielle Ash

 

"My current art practice focuses on collecting an archive of images, arranged on a large scale to represent distance travelled and explore the conflict between the memory of place and documentation of this. Deliberately setting time constraints on my trips across Europe and further afield has enabled me to expand the geographical context of my work. Given the time limitations, there are a number of complex questions which I am unpicking simultaneously in my both my studio practice and dissertation about artists’ relationships with surrounding landscapes.

My method of warping images using layered grout, inks and chalk and then selectively revealing areas below these top layers, demonstrates the physical act of curating in its most forward-thinking sense. This process of translating individual works into a coherent whole that is legible and attractive to the viewer has prompted my realisation of how important the selection and placement of works is to my personal contemporary art and curatorial practice.

I plan to cover walls with vast two dimensional grids consisting of distorted images from the vast catalogue of images, specifically chairs, to play with the viewer's response to what is revealed and hidden to them through this act of alteration."