Jess Allen – BOOOOOOOM! – CREATE * INSPIRE * COMMUNITY * ART * DESIGN * MUSIC * FILM * PHOTO * PROJECTS
A collection of latest work by Cornwall, UK-based artist Jess Allen. Her quiet still-life work seize snippets of home life, exploring themes of the on a regular basis via the act of portray. She says:
“‘Issues’ do have meanings. I’ve begun to appreciate this notably in relation to my e book work. Perhaps individuals are drawn to them, as a result of they signify an engagement in studying, or the promise a e book suggests. Moreover they may additionally act as a reminder of a sure particular person and a e book which they beloved.
Within the latest shadow figures forged throughout sofas, chairs and bookcases, I’m exploring a way of presence. They’re about evoking reminiscence, and about time. Maybe they encourage connection due to their ordinariness and everydayness. And possibly they stimulate as a result of they’re a couple of fleeting second, and the way daylight captures our shadows, our non bodily selves, which when recorded we are able to in some way maintain maintain of. Identical to mud, the shadow stays, even when the particular person has moved on.”
Jess Allen is represented by Blue Shop Cottage in London. See extra of her work beneath!
