Amanda Bracken explores aspects of cultural and painterly systems of colour, themes of light and weight, movement and stillness and the shifting nature of language.
Rainbow Hang Up, forms part of a larger series of 3D art works and drawings. Considered as much for their painterly colours as for their fragile material, china tea cups have been reconstructed to create a chain of interlinked cups. Passed through many hands and recirculated via the charity shops these pieces seem like props on a stage.
Rainbow Hang Up dangles from a cup hook, almost out of reach it presents a dialogue between the visual and the haptic.
I work from objective sources, from found everyday objects: cups, boxes, envelopes, and a lid for example. Emptied of their previous contents, these tangible objects also become the subject of subtle illusionistic drawings which in turn are a starting point for the imaginative and physical possibilities of paint.
I studied Fine Art at Central Saint Martins ( MA Fine Art 2003) and have exhibited drawing, painting, installation, objects and photography in London and nationally. Recent Selected exhibitions include Creekside Open 2011 selected by Phillida Barlow, Parallax Art Fair London 2011 and Drawing 200 Biennial at The Drawing Room 2005
Alongside my own art practice, I have taught widely in Gallery Education including Serpentine Gallery, The Drawing Room, Victoria Miro Gallery and Estorick collection.
AB 2012