Courtney Madley is an emerging artist based in Southampton and a recent graduate from Winchester School of Art in Fine Art. Through the medium of printmaking, her work explores the intertwined relationship between memory, nostalgia and identity. She has recently shown her work in The Winchester Gallery exhibition Work & Play, undertaken a month long artist placement in Spain and been part of the team that had a project exhibited at Gods House Tower.
Memories play a huge role in forming our identities, but they have the ability to be warped over time. To recall is to piece back together the fragmented states of a memory, but during this process ideas of what happened in the past can be changed. Using collage and photography as a reference for my works, I aim to challenge the human perception of memory by questioning what is a form of documentation and what has been constructed. Printmaking is my main medium, due to its versatility and process based methodology that suits me and my artistic practice. Through my work, I provoke reflection of the effects of altered memories on us and how we value their presence for reassurance of our identity.
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