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Coolumber (photo by Andy Mason) oil on canvas 180 x 145cm 2007 |
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Claudia Böse - painter
project funding 2007
My work is shaped by my interest in history and its effect on our human condition. The way I handle art materials and make images is informed by ideas, aesthetics and activities that define aspects of our culture and identity. I am particularly interested in how the meaning and identity of a place are visually constructed.
The funding of £450 from the JGT went into buying art materials as I proposed to develop four small monochrome drawings by enlarging them onto a 6ft x 4ft canvas. These images are part of a body of work titled ‘The children of England’ and is an ongoing project based on knitting and sewing patterns for children’s’ clothes.
Once I started working with my subject on the large canvases it became apparent that the procedure of enlargement was not as I imagined the best way to take this body of work further. More experimentation led me then to reduce the size of the work some of which I exhibited in the shopfront of Phibbs, a former butcher in Ferbane, Ireland. I am currently making stamp sized wood engravings of this work.
Coolumber and Lismanny are now the titles of the large canvases which started off with the black figures on yellow, green and red backgrounds and developed into expressions of my engagement with geometric layouts and its function as a cultural touchstone. This subject has inspired my most recent work at Belmont Mill in Ireland, a studio bursary awarded by the Irish Arts Council and Offaly County Council.
A body of work I made in Germany from 1998 to 2002 will also be on show at the Highgate Gallery Bursary Exhibition in London from 6. to 19.June 2008.
