Julie Taylor - The Artist
Introduction
I am looking at the “uncanny” as described in 1919 by Sigmund Freud as strange, eerie, unusual and the unfamiliar familiar. I have researched extensively my own childhood and have gathered photographs of children and children with toys. I have for the past two years painted larger than life to give them an ambiguous presence and a shift in their relationship with the viewer. I have used vintage domestic interiors and memories of my own childhood. My paintings are fraught with my own experiences of people and life.
Life subtly ever present in the domestic wallpapers and clues of life’s transition from girl to woman and child to mother .I enjoyed a childhood full of imaginative play, where the roles of mother are preserved memories in my paintings. My personal interaction with dolls as ‘children’ and then as a child given responsibility of my younger siblings is confused roles within my memories and paintings. Pressures of education and personal home life collided when I tried to keep the balance. In my paintings I want to contain all those elements of life and transition, imaginative play and realities.
I feel in my research that I have attempted to exhaust the possibilities of my concept and ideas and researched via the internet artists and psychology to equip me with the knowledge of the connections with my paintings, drawings and journal work that all represents my journey during the three years of the degree. I was fortunate to discover my concept and subject during the drawing element of the first years degree work. This degree has given me the opportunity to develop my life’s experience in both personal and working experience. Working within the community and mental health has allowed me to look at childhood memories and adult conflict.
I am looking at the “uncanny” as described in 1919 by Sigmund Freud as strange, eerie, unusual and the unfamiliar familiar. I have researched extensively my own childhood and have gathered photographs of children and children with toys. I have for the past two years painted larger than life to give them an ambiguous presence and a shift in their relationship with the viewer. I have used vintage domestic interiors and memories of my own childhood. My paintings are fraught with my own experiences of people and life.
Life subtly ever present in the domestic wallpapers and clues of life’s transition from girl to woman and child to mother .I enjoyed a childhood full of imaginative play, where the roles of mother are preserved memories in my paintings. My personal interaction with dolls as ‘children’ and then as a child given responsibility of my younger siblings is confused roles within my memories and paintings. Pressures of education and personal home life collided when I tried to keep the balance. In my paintings I want to contain all those elements of life and transition, imaginative play and realities.
I feel in my research that I have attempted to exhaust the possibilities of my concept and ideas and researched via the internet artists and psychology to equip me with the knowledge of the connections with my paintings, drawings and journal work that all represents my journey during the three years of the degree. I was fortunate to discover my concept and subject during the drawing element of the first years degree work. This degree has given me the opportunity to develop my life’s experience in both personal and working experience. Working within the community and mental health has allowed me to look at childhood memories and adult conflict.
