Day Bowman
www.daybowman.com
@daybowmanartist
Statement:
When the theme for Nothing Has Change, Everything Has Changed was conceived no one could have known quite how relevant this would be for present-day Europe. The unfolding events in Ukraine, both deeply troubling and shocking, allow us to access and view history in the making and the fact that such atrocities are happening in a neighbouring European country touches us all deeply.
I have taken as my starting point the games we play in childhood and, more particularly, those acted out on the beach where I grew up. The beach, our playground, provided space for mark-making, inscribing names and strange messages to the gods, hop-scotch, drawing out goal posts or marking out our own particular spaces. There was an acceptance that these lines and shapes would be erased with the incoming tide; and with each return visit the shoreline offered up a virgin canvas on which we could work out our territories, yet again.
The tidal images that I am submitting to BEEP 2022 represent something more sinister than simple childhood beach games, referencing an incoming wave of bigotry and intolerance. And whilst these are not overtly political works I find within them a questioning on the notion of place, identity and belonging.
In the light of recent events in Ukraine, politicians would do well to remember their own childhood games and frustrations recognising that nature has a powerful way of settling injustices
www.daybowman.com
@daybowmanartist
Statement:
When the theme for Nothing Has Change, Everything Has Changed was conceived no one could have known quite how relevant this would be for present-day Europe. The unfolding events in Ukraine, both deeply troubling and shocking, allow us to access and view history in the making and the fact that such atrocities are happening in a neighbouring European country touches us all deeply.
I have taken as my starting point the games we play in childhood and, more particularly, those acted out on the beach where I grew up. The beach, our playground, provided space for mark-making, inscribing names and strange messages to the gods, hop-scotch, drawing out goal posts or marking out our own particular spaces. There was an acceptance that these lines and shapes would be erased with the incoming tide; and with each return visit the shoreline offered up a virgin canvas on which we could work out our territories, yet again.
The tidal images that I am submitting to BEEP 2022 represent something more sinister than simple childhood beach games, referencing an incoming wave of bigotry and intolerance. And whilst these are not overtly political works I find within them a questioning on the notion of place, identity and belonging.
In the light of recent events in Ukraine, politicians would do well to remember their own childhood games and frustrations recognising that nature has a powerful way of settling injustices
Fortress 4
140 x 150 x 3cm
2021
140 x 150 x 3cm
2021