February 2003
Artist - Hannah McCaig |
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| Work by Hannah McCaig - Artist |
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Hannah McCaig is a student at Nottingham
Trent University. Her work raises questions of value, context and
aesthetics through the use of found souvenirs and discarded materials. |
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Artist profile
My art practice raises questions of value,
context and aesthetics through the use of found souvenirs and discarded
materials to create collage/assemblages and installations.
Blurring the boundaries between artist and curator, I remove objects
from 'worthless' contexts and elevate them to 'art', challenging the
viewer's perception of them.
My constructions' surreal enviroments are as much a story-telling
device for the audience as for myself, the ambiguity breeding different
narratives for each spectator.
In seeing the objects subjectively, their decayed textures become
central to the narrative process: throught their accumulation of dirt
and flaws, the objects tell us stories of their pasts.
The work's ambiguous environments and weathered quality echoes the
fragile and distorting nature of memory and nostalgia - two themes
central to my practice.
Ultimately, these are fictional documents of the past that instil
in the viewer the same 'treasure-hunting' notion that is present when
I first find the objects.
Artist's Gallery
Take a look at a sample of Hannah McCaig's work. Click on the images
to see a much larger version...
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