Artists in Our Midst: Where We Stood - Artist Talk with Jude Neale & Jane Kenyon
Where We Stood 2020 31x54 Acrylic on recycled cloth
“That arms as they rise make bones fly, and scars are made of someone else’s stories and are seldom the one’s you see… “ Jude Neale (excerpt from Where We Stood)
In this video presentation by The Hearth - Arts on Bowen, Jude Neale and Jane Kenyon share their inspiration and process in this episode of Artists in Our Midst. To view CLICK HERE
Words can trigger a response in the artist which translates emotionally in their work. Conversely visual art can elicit in the poet a non-literal verbal response. It is this back-and-forth which Neale and Kenyon are exploring in this new work. Not a collaboration, but a conversation: about their journeys through beauty and tragedy, love and rejection, meaning and emptiness.
Artist Statement: Jane Kenyon
My artwork is composed of many layers of paint, torn fragments of previous work and stitch. We live in a time of impermanence – of ideas, objects, families, technology, careers. As I explore the anxiety of these rapid changes, I am learning to enjoy the transience of any individual artwork: yielding to the freedom of the transformations taking place on the surface, and perhaps in me as well. Recent work with recycled domestic textiles feels like a further exploration of the permanence/impermanence of materials, perhaps an attempt to salvage their usefulness.
And oh the skin they touched. Bathed skin, brown skin, bruised skin, palms and fingers and painted toes“
*excerpt from Where We Stood by Jude Neale
Learn More:
View the online gallery of the exhibiton Where We Stood HERE