Jessica Woodrow
www.jesswoodrow.com
@jesswoodrowpainter
Statement:
My work is a slow process of building many layers of paint as if creating layers of protection against the hostilities of our patriarchal, homophobic world. A world that feels foreign to me. So I paint other small worlds in an attempt to find some sense of belonging.
I use landscape as a base to project stories and current events on to; so in a way the landscape is my canvas. Often the events are about murder and sexual violence. They are a way of grieving in the silence of the aftermath of a death. Adding layers of paint becomes a kind of reversal of a process...adding, in order to expose something, like some sort of psychological dig instead of an archeological one.
The chosen theme of ’Nothing has changed, everything has changed' is very poignant to me. I feel that during the pandemic people talked about 'nothing ever being the same again'. On the other side of the virus we discover that the powers that be have in fact not changed at all...and that we are trying to reconcile ourselves with the frustration of that paradox.
The other side of my work, is a kind of anticipation of change. The question being: 'What is it going to take'?
www.jesswoodrow.com
@jesswoodrowpainter
Statement:
My work is a slow process of building many layers of paint as if creating layers of protection against the hostilities of our patriarchal, homophobic world. A world that feels foreign to me. So I paint other small worlds in an attempt to find some sense of belonging.
I use landscape as a base to project stories and current events on to; so in a way the landscape is my canvas. Often the events are about murder and sexual violence. They are a way of grieving in the silence of the aftermath of a death. Adding layers of paint becomes a kind of reversal of a process...adding, in order to expose something, like some sort of psychological dig instead of an archeological one.
The chosen theme of ’Nothing has changed, everything has changed' is very poignant to me. I feel that during the pandemic people talked about 'nothing ever being the same again'. On the other side of the virus we discover that the powers that be have in fact not changed at all...and that we are trying to reconcile ourselves with the frustration of that paradox.
The other side of my work, is a kind of anticipation of change. The question being: 'What is it going to take'?
'This one is me'
17 x 19 x 4cm
Oil on canvas
17 x 19 x 4cm
Oil on canvas