Human Archaeology Series, Galway International Arts Festival
LIBBY LLOYD ARE (b 1971)
I explore dream like visions through the act of chance and my imagination. These fleeting thoughts are influenced by the nonsensical and bizarre, inspired by Dada and Surrealism. I play the directors part in creating fantastical alternative realities and imagine new worlds. The images are a pictorial language and output of thought - a psychic automatism. The work invites [you] the spectator to become part of the stage set/s that lay in-between the sublime and the ridiculous - connecting ones' earthly existence with otherworldly, transcendental and spiritual realms of being.
The new Space Race has focussed my attention towards metaphorical allegories. Where the transcendental meets the anthropological.
I am a Printmaker working outside the frame of traditional printing practices. I make Silkscreen Paintings, Cardboard Assemblages, Silkscreen Prints on paper, Archival Digital Pigment Prints on paper and short Digital Animations. The choice in the medium is very considered and extend the ideas behind the work.
Contact details and enquiries:
https://instagram.com/libbylloydart