Jess Hargreaves North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Mixed media artist exploring writing as mark making, navigating the relationship between text and image, through the practices of collecting and disrupting language and writing. Based in North Yorkshire.
Communication a way people try to connect with one another, there are a plethora of modes in which humans aim to relate, sympathise, argue and translate to create spaces of connection. Through my practice I am to explore these forms of communication by navigating in between the spoken, written, digital and auditory spaces where language and text is heard.
Using a range of painting, printmaking, drawing and textile techniques to play with the form of language and disrupt its presentation, creating a synthesis of visual and typographic language. Inspired by the practice of Asemic writing, my practice usually starts with writing as drawing 'words in the moment' as a cathartic practice for using a word or phrase over and over again to tease out its form and change it into something new. Transferring this into larger works and incorporating movement while writing/drawing as a key component to fully realise the act of translating environmental stimuli of language to brain to hand to work.
There is a combination of 'collection' of text through a range of sources, literature, music, everyday conversations and own poetry that interlaces and where relevant, provokes ideas of the meaning of combinations of words in context with a range of intersectional social themes.
