Amy Moffat
Wimbledon graduate and 4 Sensations 2008 finalist Amy Moffat’s oil paintings capture a mood of figurative ambiguity and a desire for the abstract. Taken from early 20th century archival photography their subjects are chosen as much for their formal structure as for their figurative meaning. For Amy, the process of re-interpreting this imagery into paint involves a stripping down of identity and context, leaving the painting as a notional representation that often calls on abstact tools of plains of colour and patterns. From the formal pyramids of her trademark empty tent pictures, her subjects have progressed to the circus and the carnivalesque, while a technical progression to a stronger, more heavily worked canvas is also evident in this selection.
Zocalo
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Painting
40cm x 35cm
Oil, Board
Taken from a grainy image, this unspecific crystal was chosen for its strong formal structure and lack of association, origin or purpose. The use of board as a medium, instead of the more usual linen, reflects the coarse formation of the crystal itself as well as that of the source image.
£550
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