Artist's Statement

 

I have been a sculptress, storyboard artist, commission artist, gallery artist, art performer.

 

A weaver, a childminder and single mother, a yoga teacher, a painter, a cleaner, a poet, a designer of wearable art and objects. 

 

I continue currently in art as a self employed maker and therapist.

 

 

Art has been a way of life. Academic Study has moved my work forward in a multitude of ways. Challenging and supporting my creative choices, with an MA I feel the next stage of development is vital to grow again.

 

Clay work is my chosen subject to understand. I need the academic environment to draw on expertise and overcome my limitations. 

 

As a dyslexic learner, I learn as a mirror reflects, a copiest. Perhaps the reason I love portraiture, and dance. I want to develop the surface of my sculptures, to bring depth and considered creativity to the process.

Trusting my spontaneous nature has shown me how to see my natural creativity in many materials. I learn by mistake, and never forget them as they have such connection to emotion and transformation. Finding SRT was a pivotal moment in my somatic enquiry. A new level of awareness and maturity, healthy social and physical development thanks to the pedagogy.

 

 

Studying Skinner Releasing Technique since 2011, I followed teachers when I got the chance. In my degree research I found somatic enquiry was an academic field.  Focusing my dissertation on the importance of cross disciplinary activity, I wrote about somatic enqiry and making, their intrinsic link.

 

My interest in cross disciplinary creativity continues to drive my learning. Investigating dyslexia and hypersensitivity, the benefits of dance to health, balance and making art, remains my main area of investigation. Currently I am making atlas and axis as a clay sculpture, with reference to the top two vertebrae (which have the same name).

Where the freedom of movement starts, carrying the enormous weight of the skull, or where compression and fear reside in posture. The awareness of these two bones is my focus at present. As I was at Camberwell for first year in Ceramics Degree, I had the chance to first hand encounter pieces at Gallery Besson, Grayson Perry's vases, and V&A new ceramic collection, with tutor Richard Slee exhibiting  at the end space of the gallery ' From utility to Futility'. A time of great change, the last year intake at Camberwell ceramics course, and now Falmouth degree is closing. 

I am very interested in education as a pathway and with an MA I hope to futher my capacity to offer my unique adventure in art as a teacher. I am convinced Art is taught by individuals more so than course structure, and knowledge in making is emparted best through the example of artistic individual achievement.

 

 

 

 

 

 

ejharnett@gmail.com