KITTY BLANDY UNTITLED JOURNEY VI 2016 76 x 33cm https://www.kittyblandy.com/ https://www.instagram.com/kittyblandy ARTIST BIO
PROJECT STATEMENT “Untitled journey VI” is a framed drawing on paper from a series of works made over the past 8-10 years thematically titled migration/placement/displacement. At the beginning of the series the pieces depict one or two figures in isolation. Later in the project, and after the enormity of the refugee crisis in Syria and the Mediterranean in the mid twenty-teens became widespread, the figure becomes multiple. Group movement may not always be one of distress, and the sight of people moving on foot is ancient and timeless. Each figure as an individual becomes threaded together in a continuum, an allegory for some of the binaries of human existence; endurance and striving ambition, fatalism and curiosity. The migration/placement/ displacement series also addresses the metaphysical; who we are, where we are, what we are.
Blandy’s education in the arts began early in life through weekly visits to museums and galleries with her surgeon father, a keen amateur artist and historian. Having been raised in a medical family her exposure to the corporeality of others prompted a self-directed independent visual training under the guidance of established practitioners, exploring the body both as subject and object. This in turn led to a practice in drawing, printmaking, sculpture, and a broad grounding in Euro-American art history. Her work has been represented in the UK and Canada and is included in a number of collections, notably the Primary Collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London. She holds a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art and Design, and is currently a Master of Liberal Arts post- graduate candidate at Simon Fraser University. Past awards include the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant and the Contemporary Art Society of Vancouver Emerging Artist Award. Additionally she has served on the boards of several non-profit arts organizations. Her recent work is situated within current discourses including: the body as site of sensation and consciousness, how a body feels metaphysically, environmental and humanistic theology, and extinction.
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