ruth todhunter

Wednesday 18 November 2009

"Railway Sleepers", Royal Academy First Year Show, 2002

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My video works at present reference my background as a painter and sculptor: alluding to aspects of German Romanticism, Process Art and Action Painting.

The use of reflections, mirrors, extreme cropping in compositions and focusing on minutiae of a scene enable me to focus on the abstract. This distancing from the original experience is further extended in the contrast of various types of human and non-human time, often running in parallel throughout the films.

Previous to this in my practice I selected functional objects from the familiar realm of the domestic and the industrial to make abstract compositions about light, colour, texture and shape. In these works, made as photographs, video film, or installation, the objects lose their identity and function, becoming almost unrecognisable as an emphasis on form and colour takes priority.

My approach to making the work is akin to that of painting; every element is carefully controlled, considered, reassessed and changed until the final composition is achieved. Minute changes in lighting or angle make vast differences to the tone, hue or density of colour. My response to each specific site produces work unique to its environment

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