Brigitte Watkinson
Originally from Bavaria, Brigitte now lives and works near Northwich, Cheshire. She previously studied and taught languages before focussing on her art. With a Master’s Degree in Fine Art her work is multi- disciplinary spanning photography, painting, collage and sculpture. At the root of her practice is an ongoing fascination with the notion of entanglement or tentacularity – ‘life lived along lines... a series of interlaced trails’ (Donna Haraway, 2016) – the constant, cyclical process of emotions, encounters and experiences interlacing and interconnecting, and subsequently affecting and intra-acting with mood and memories. Forever concerned with ways of portraying the transient and multi-dimensional layers of these intangible encounters and emotions, she continuously investigates and explores new and improved ways, techniques and materials. Material and process are central – her work is organic and labour intense. Materials are non-hierarchical and collecting them is intrinsic to her process. She re-uses materials and re-appropriates recycled and found materials, parts of old work and cut- outs to give them a new future and value. Through careful layering, ready-made images are juxtapositioned with fragile materials such as paper, textiles and wax. As such, techniques and materials amalgamate and develop a complex and often surreal dynamic.
Originally from Bavaria, Brigitte now lives and works near Northwich, Cheshire. She previously studied and taught languages before focussing on her art. With a Master’s Degree in Fine Art her work is multi- disciplinary spanning photography, painting, collage and sculpture. At the root of her practice is an ongoing fascination with the notion of entanglement or tentacularity – ‘life lived along lines... a series of interlaced trails’ (Donna Haraway, 2016) – the constant, cyclical process of emotions, encounters and experiences interlacing and interconnecting, and subsequently affecting and intra-acting with mood and memories. Forever concerned with ways of portraying the transient and multi-dimensional layers of these intangible encounters and emotions, she continuously investigates and explores new and improved ways, techniques and materials. Material and process are central – her work is organic and labour intense. Materials are non-hierarchical and collecting them is intrinsic to her process. She re-uses materials and re-appropriates recycled and found materials, parts of old work and cut- outs to give them a new future and value. Through careful layering, ready-made images are juxtapositioned with fragile materials such as paper, textiles and wax. As such, techniques and materials amalgamate and develop a complex and often surreal dynamic.
An Ordinary Day
