The Cat Kingdom
Collection:UAL Art Collection
Date: 2017
Artist: Beth Horner (British)
Dimensions:
25 x 40cm
Medium: Acrylic on board
Object number: UAC 904
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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.'
'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.'