Engage Artist

Fiona Candy

Artform:
Mixed media
Year:
2017-18
Location:
North West UK.
Email:
fionacandy@btinternet.com
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Project summary:

For me, art practice is a way of being: a means to make sense of everyday experiences, life and living.  I engage with less conscious modes of perception such as touch, hearing, memory, sense of time, atmosphere: when mind, body and world interact. I actively embrace intuition and the opportunities of chance encounter to integrate items, materials or ideas, as they emerge with significance in the moment. I often use archival research, drawing, photography, audio, video, digital manipulation and textile processes to make artworks, installations and activities that invite people to participate. Movement is a constant energy within my work, as too are colour, myth and metaphor. I find Carl Jung’s ideas of the archetypes and the collective unconscious, fascinating and compellingOther influences include animism, spiritual ecology and the esoteric. I read widely and recently have been appreciating e.g. the work of David Abram, Ralph Waldo Emerson, E.E. Cummings.

For me, art practice is a way of being: a means to make sense of everyday experiences, life and living.  I engage with less conscious modes of perception such as touch, hearing, memory, sense of time, atmosphere: when mind, body and world interact. I actively embrace intuition and the opportunities of chance encounter to integrate items, materials or ideas, as they emerge with significance in the moment. I often use archival research, drawing, photography, audio, video, digital manipulation and textile processes to make artworks, installations and activities that invite people to participate. Movement is a constant energy within my work, as too are colour, myth and metaphor. I find Carl Jung’s ideas of the archetypes and the collective unconscious, fascinating and compellingOther influences include animism, spiritual ecology and the esoteric. I read widely and recently have been appreciating e.g. the work of David Abram, Ralph Waldo Emerson, E.E. Cummings.

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