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April 14, 2022
Grace Ebert
With a background in drugs, Edinburgh-based artist Flore Gardner fosters a innovative exercise that explores the system and its untapped probable. She functions in an array of mediums from printmaking and ink-centered illustrations to blended-media installations and fiber, pushing the limitations of human anatomy into the realm of the absurd or subversive. No matter the materials, every work facilities on a main interest in drawing and utilizes the identical approaches and principles that fill the pages of her notebooks.
1 of Gardner’s collection, titled (Her)Tales, overlays vintage, black-and-white images largely sourced from flea markets with vivid stitches. As the identify indicates, the selection focuses generally on women of all ages, and the embroidered aspects obscure faces with dense patches, insert dimension to a subject’s system, or spotlight their figures by drawing a contrast to the backdrop.
Revitalized with coloration and texture, the portraits and posed group pictures take on a new narrative with the artist’s thread drawings and “modify the ‘reality’ of the images, revealing concealed factors underneath (eg. unseen naked bodies below wedding ceremony outfits, invisible haloes, concealed thoughts) or on the contrary hiding specific details (threads shroud the inevitably lifeless figures or ‘ghosts’).” She points out further:
The needle is an instrument for hurting and for healing—a photograph (or human pores and skin) can be harmed by its remedy and simultaneously repaired/recreated. This needle would make hundreds of very little holes in every photograph, the moment a valuable object, and these, alongside with the threads, change the flat, easy, untouchable photographic aid into a relief surface, which can be touched and even, in a sure way, go through like Braille.
Gardner at the moment is operating on a publishing challenge funded by Innovative Scotland and a collaborative overall performance that will be introduced at Edinburgh Fringe this August.
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#thread
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