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IRIS PRIEST

Illustrator//Artist//Writer

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Recent Projects 35 – 37

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IRIS PRIEST

Illustrator//Artist//Writer

www.irisapriest.co.uk

irisaspinall@gmail.com

07512354692

@iris_priest

My practice is bound up with the exploration of art and drawing as channels for discovery, for the cross-pollination of ideas and as a new means of communication. What connects the various aspects of my work – painting, sculpture, writing, curation, photography and site-responsive drawing – is an

ongoing philosophical enquiry into the structures which underlie our everyday existence.

My visual work is often laboriously and highly crafted as a means for redrawing – and potentially disrupting or volatilizing - the 'banal' images and materials of the every day. I am interested in the frontiers (or limits) of human kinds' understanding of the universe and how, or whether, art and science can be taken beyond themselves in order to imagine the unimaginable and make manifest the ineffable or immaterial. Much of my work represented in this

abbreviated explores, in different ways, the relativity and ephemerality of scientific or artistic invention and the ways in which past ideas, ideologies and aesthetic movements can draw parallels to current times, thereby shaking the seeming infallibility of our currently held positions, ideologies and beliefs.

As an artist, writer and curator I am increasingly concerned with promoting and nurturing a greater synergy between practitioners from different disciplines (visual art, writing, philosophy, science and education). In my curatorial projects, editorial role (CANNED Magazine) and recent writing commissions I have been exploring an evolutionary principle of ideas as propagated by collective knowledge sharing, collaboration and exchange which I am introducing to the

development of new works.