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She creates unqualified paintings utilising household coat paint calico directly do not take into account a person. The built image recap photographed extensively and a single ikon is preferred to affront the output. She describes her thought thus: “as some appreciative of carrefour between image, photography, statement and sculpture”. (Youtube.com, 2019)
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| Treetop, 2012 |
Boo Ritson first gained fame for her unusual portraits, which saw live models covered in paint and then photographed. Her latest show at Poppy Sebire sees a radical new direction for the artist, which shifts the focus from faces to landscapes, specifically the American landscape, and eschews paint for digital collage. She explains the inspiration behind the new works here.
SoD SoA: The new series is very different from your previous work – was this a deliberate change on your part?
BR: I think inevitably, when you’ve worked in a particular way, it becomes time for change. And in working in one way, you close down a lot of opportunities, which have to be reopened at some point. So now is the point I suppose for me to reexamine the way I work, and look at some of the things I’m thinking about and make a significant shift, so that I’m not dealing with similar issues all the time. As any artist knows, that can be very important.
SoD SoA: I imagine, if something has been successful, there’s always a temptation to carry on in a similar vein? And maybe even a bit of pressure to do that?
BR: The pressure is probably internal. I mean, there are external pressures inevitably, but the pressure to make work that you’re prou
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Boo Ritson - On the Way to the Ocean
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Private view: Thursday 29 March, 6.30 ' 8.30pmExhibition continues: 30 March ' 5 May 2012
The heavily painted subjects of Boo Ritson's photographic portraits focused on the various layers that make up persona. For her second solo exhibition with Poppy Sebire, Ritson turns her attention to the American landscape with a series of mixed media works that investigate the relationship of identity and representation to place.
Ritson casts the characters and spaces that constitute the proverbial American Dream, albeit one that is imagined and imaged through a specifically British lens. Here, the scenic environments constitute a virtual America, their story, a journey along a trail towards the ocean. They reiterate the romantic dream of the New World, one both borne out of nineteenth-century women's writing and developed in Pop art. However, the picturesque American landscape is manufactured through elements found closer to home, in Chesham, England. Fabricated landscapes, both familiar and slightly ominous, create settings in which the unknown may manifest. Images and sculptures have been variously moulded, photographed, digitally worked and reprinted. This multi-layered process of collage echoes the convoluted and fragmented nature o