Priscilla Jones - Textile Installation Artist

                                                 

My current practice explores the concept of identity, memory and the translucency of time. Each piece is an example that has been manipulated and reworked through processes of embellishment that include paint, collage, and stitch.  Assembled together, often familiar materials and objects produce the field on which I develop a visual narrative that provokes the viewer to their own semantic exploration. The work also resonates with us as emotionally; we recognize and react to the familiar, remembered, and implied links to things past. The associations prompted with the nostalgia can be both comforting and provocative; we cannot fail to consider our relationship to the pieces through their powerful impact – these are evocative pieces - and its relationship to worlds past and present. Haunting, evocative, disturbing, nostalgic or distorted, memories are created in the subconscious and through the pieces I create I want to awaken the subconscious. 

What inspires you in your art? 
The beauty in the ordinary and mundane. Paint peeling on a wall or finding a fragment of old lino in a skip!    

What medium do you work in? 
Mixed media textiles.

What are you looking forward to at Make it Up North? 

Working with ‘Art Market’ team once again and being part of this amazing new event. 

What work are you showing at the event?

Delicate fabric and wire structures that I will be creating at the event, as I have been selected as an installation artist.

Have you any exciting news to share?

I am busy working on my fantastic new website due to be launched later this year.

If you could sit in a room with any artist….who would it be and what would you ask them? 

Patrick Heron and I would ask him if we could create a painting together.

Name your favorite quote/or philosophy to life?

‘He who hesitates is lost’

If money was no object what piece of work would you create? 

An enormous teapot and cup and saucer made of millions of buttons!

Priscilla Jones will be showing her work at Make it Up North Event at The Guildhall in York on the 5th and 6th of October. 
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