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Amber Mottram

Hold

Mixed Media Collage

2021

I am interested in describing the potency of creation that happens in the mind in non-art spaces and through periods of confinement. I work with objects that visually stir something in me within my domestic sphere; children toys, clothes pegs, colanders and household detritus. Reassembling them and using repetition to abstract them and free them aesthetically from their original function. To present these objects anew as art works means re-evaluating their function and their formal properties. I am also interested in the gaze of non animate objects, particularly my house and wish to explore how our lives are viewed from these overlooked perspectives. Working with collages, installations and film my work to describes the duality of existing in the mundane and the ability to transcend it though art.

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