Going Nowhere (8 små arbeider)

Av Billie Mary Thaekwell

Om kunstverket

Billie Mary Thackwell (1960) er en britisk kunstner, som bor og arbeider i Norge og Syd-Frankrike. Hun er utdannet fra Napier University, Edinburgh, Photography, 1980 -1983, Oslo Drawing and Painting School, 1984- 1986, Institute for Creative Arts Bærum, DTK, 1999- 2001 , og Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Art History, 2016.

Thackwells kreative arbeid utmerker seg ved hennes gjennomgående bruk av polaroidkamera og film, med teknikker hun har utviklet over de siste 15 årene. Hun utforsker og leker med polaroidkameraets filmings uforutsigbarhet.

Artist statement: "My Polaroid camera just appeared in my life at the right time and gave me a “kick” …the glossiness, the square, the “instantness” and the unpredictability. Drawing on the original Polaroid with the simplicity and beauty of a black line. The lines changing what is, and the picture becoming something else. My drawings are the limitless variations of relationships to lines, geometry and form. Exploring spatial contexts and creating rooms and voids. These in-betweens are freedom for thoughts as much as freedom from thoughts. My newer works Portraits of Minds is a series of heads or minds. I am now exploring our thoughts, our minds, our activity in our heads. Using intuitive lines and colours to express the madness of our minds within. Our experiences exploding within our skull, I am curious about what is going on there. What is going on or happening in our in-betweens and voids?"

Herværende verk ble innkjøpt av Bærum kommune på utstillingen "Like Heaven for a Fish", BKIB medlemsutstilling 2021, Bærum Kunsthall. Verket Going nowhere består av tegning på polaroid, 8 små bilder, som nå blir en del av kommunens samling.

Kilde: https://billiethackwell.com/