http://www.kidderminsterartsfestival.org.uk/events/small-scale-commissions/
KERRY FOSTER
‘MISSING’
My work centres on curiosity, confusion and deception. I make small models based around popular news stories and then photograph them in a way that they become life-size spaces. In this way I trick my audience in a visual illusion, blurring the boundaries between fact and fiction.
The current theme in my work surrounds the idea of ‘The Missing’. With the number of missing people in current news becoming a reoccurring issue, my work is placed into a more current context. My sculptures are a contemplation in which viewers can formulate their own theories and notions and they themselves get somewhat lost within them.
‘Trenches’ depicts an imagined reality of the last place that many of the men that went missing in WWI were seen, and the conditions in which they lived. ‘Treachery?’comprises of a newly ploughed field and fence, partly bent from the force of somebody climbing over it. The white feather placed within the work is symbolic of cowardice, and little did they know that many of these men were suffering from mental illness. Both pieces evoke a sense of loss due to the lack of human presence, only suggested through subtle clues in each constructed landscape.
The accompanying zines contain a list of soldiers who died during the war. I want to show that those who died on the front line were held in honour, yet those shot at dawn were initially nameless, and forgotten.
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.
kerryrhian.weebly.com
KERRY FOSTER
‘MISSING’
My work centres on curiosity, confusion and deception. I make small models based around popular news stories and then photograph them in a way that they become life-size spaces. In this way I trick my audience in a visual illusion, blurring the boundaries between fact and fiction.
The current theme in my work surrounds the idea of ‘The Missing’. With the number of missing people in current news becoming a reoccurring issue, my work is placed into a more current context. My sculptures are a contemplation in which viewers can formulate their own theories and notions and they themselves get somewhat lost within them.
‘Trenches’ depicts an imagined reality of the last place that many of the men that went missing in WWI were seen, and the conditions in which they lived. ‘Treachery?’comprises of a newly ploughed field and fence, partly bent from the force of somebody climbing over it. The white feather placed within the work is symbolic of cowardice, and little did they know that many of these men were suffering from mental illness. Both pieces evoke a sense of loss due to the lack of human presence, only suggested through subtle clues in each constructed landscape.
The accompanying zines contain a list of soldiers who died during the war. I want to show that those who died on the front line were held in honour, yet those shot at dawn were initially nameless, and forgotten.
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.
kerryrhian.weebly.com