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The Cat Kingdom

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The Cat Kingdom

Date: 2017
Artist: Beth Horner (British)
Dimensions:
25 x 40cm
Medium: Acrylic on board
Object number: UAC 904
DescriptionBeth Horner studied BA Fine Art: Painting at Wimbledon College of Arts. She says:

'My work is rooted in suburbia through the domestic environments and kitsch elements that crop up. I begin with digital collages, using discarded, often low quality images that I have taken with my phone, or sourced from the depths of my personal digital devices. These autobiographical images are compiled together and reconstructed to give them a new context and narrative.

I am interested in a push and pull between the virtual and the physical – exploring ideas around simulated paint. I experiment with the framework within a painting with reference to digital interfaces. Compositions generated on Photoshop are translated into analogue form using both painterly techniques and screen-printing to describe different kinds of spaces, surface qualities and picture planes. In person, the paintings deceive a viewer into understanding the picture as digital, and when viewed digitally, the images pretend to be made of paint.'