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13/01/2010 10:47:44 - Shelly Wyn De Bank Art Display
Shelly Wyn De Bank reveals her new work at Midsummer Place - on now until 24th January
Here's a word from the artist:
“Whilst studying for my MA, I began to consider ideas around nostalgia in
relation to photographic images of children and the problematic nature of
society’s hysteria towards viewing them. Through both drawing and
painting I question how images of children from the past are viewed in an
idealised manner.! My interest in children’s illustration has continued to
influence how I make work. I source old photographs and de-contextualise
their imagery, isolating them from their original surroundings, so that they
seem both familiar and yet uncertain. By removing the ‘context’ I am trying
to create a space for them to be viewed, and a particular kind of ‘looking’
which arrests the attention. I am interested in the oscillation between subject
and object. The photographic image!is then no!longer of integral
importance, rather the feeling of ambiguity, which is created from the
recreation of objects which are intrinsically different from the original
subjective photograph.” Wyn de Bank
relation to photographic images of children and the problematic nature of
society’s hysteria towards viewing them. Through both drawing and
painting I question how images of children from the past are viewed in an
idealised manner.! My interest in children’s illustration has continued to
influence how I make work. I source old photographs and de-contextualise
their imagery, isolating them from their original surroundings, so that they
seem both familiar and yet uncertain. By removing the ‘context’ I am trying
to create a space for them to be viewed, and a particular kind of ‘looking’
which arrests the attention. I am interested in the oscillation between subject
and object. The photographic image!is then no!longer of integral
importance, rather the feeling of ambiguity, which is created from the
recreation of objects which are intrinsically different from the original
subjective photograph.” Wyn de Bank
