DEPARTURES WC2B is an exhibition of creative work by artists from City Lit’s Contemporary Practice: Personal Project course, including Didi Gaudron, Emma Parsons, Pippa Has Burnt All Her Work, Fiona Ledger, Fliff Carr, Ivan Scrase, Kate Rossini, Liz Day, Sharon Lynch, Sophie Meyer, Susannah Goulding and Wendy Manel de Silva
The dynamics of creative practice begin with departures – maybe even cycles of departures. Where the artist - seeking to locate themselves in their work - negotiates a troublesome and generative series of deviations and divergences. Art has a life of its own, one that we as creators must honour and follow: into dead ends and corners, into unexpected territories and expansive vistas. Creativity seeks horizons, pursuing what is beyond, or above, or below, or even what is right in front of us. A creative delving into what is unknown and what might come to be known in some fresh and enlivening way. Creative departures risk getting lost, but the artist in pursuit of their creative possibilities trusts also in the possibility of arrivals - each line of flight must come to land somewhere, and as artists venture out into the unknown of the work, at some point they touch the shore of their practice and there is a sense of having arrived somewhere.
Sophie Meyer’s work begins and departs from the felt experience of embodiment, and explores the emotions challenges of being in a body. Meyer’s preoccupation is with sensations of safety, utilising her sensitivity toward materials and their properties, constructing forms as visual metaphors and manifestations for challenging embodied emotions, including disassociation, shame, hypervigilance and repressed anger. Through collage, assemblage, drawing, print, photography, film and working with the body itself, Meyer gives form to the idea that we are simultaneously biological and psychological beings, and a seeking to represent the interaction between thought, feeling and sensation: the repressed and expressed.
More info on instagram @dep_art_ures
The dynamics of creative practice begin with departures – maybe even cycles of departures. Where the artist - seeking to locate themselves in their work - negotiates a troublesome and generative series of deviations and divergences. Art has a life of its own, one that we as creators must honour and follow: into dead ends and corners, into unexpected territories and expansive vistas. Creativity seeks horizons, pursuing what is beyond, or above, or below, or even what is right in front of us. A creative delving into what is unknown and what might come to be known in some fresh and enlivening way. Creative departures risk getting lost, but the artist in pursuit of their creative possibilities trusts also in the possibility of arrivals - each line of flight must come to land somewhere, and as artists venture out into the unknown of the work, at some point they touch the shore of their practice and there is a sense of having arrived somewhere.
Sophie Meyer’s work begins and departs from the felt experience of embodiment, and explores the emotions challenges of being in a body. Meyer’s preoccupation is with sensations of safety, utilising her sensitivity toward materials and their properties, constructing forms as visual metaphors and manifestations for challenging embodied emotions, including disassociation, shame, hypervigilance and repressed anger. Through collage, assemblage, drawing, print, photography, film and working with the body itself, Meyer gives form to the idea that we are simultaneously biological and psychological beings, and a seeking to represent the interaction between thought, feeling and sensation: the repressed and expressed.
More info on instagram @dep_art_ures