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- Qualifications:2020-2023 Bath School Of Art Fine Art (BA) Hons First Class Honours
- Position:Art Shop Supervisor
- Department:College of Arts, Technology and Environment
- Telephone:+441179656261
- Email:Darcy.Whent@uwe.ac.uk
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About me
My practice explores the themes and ideologies that come with the idea of motherhood in particular the dysfunctional responsibilities that we anticipate of the mother. Through the use of personal enquiry and autofiction I turn to painting and drawing within my practice. Throughout my work there are dialogue's with reoccurring protagonists and motifs. Using found imagery along with personal archives I construct and form my own narratives to build an understanding of what I believe consists of motherhood, revisiting the grief that happened from the perspective of the present through the manipulation of paint. I challenge the notion of memory and truth, recreating a sort of universal form of childhood, whilst this perception that I present through paint is true to me it’s not true to the memory. My real childhood is beginning to disappear and be replaced by what I want to see. From the perspective of the present I begin to remould the ideas I had of the mother, now developing an understanding of consequence, social barriers and the possibility of inherited behaviours.
Area of expertise
Painting
Drawing
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