Abi Rosa Ebbatson

I take a multidisciplinary approach to my work, engaging in painting, drawing, writing, and moving image and sound. I am concerned with ideas of feminism, sex and embodiment, language, mood and atmosphere, and place and landscape. I’m interested in how auto-theory can be used to recontextualise and manipulate my own personal experiences of mood disorders and dis-regulation of hormones and grief through the landscape and environments — these ideas of the cycles of longing and melancholy, creating my own array of symbology. Cut outs and layering permeating my work as ways to reveal and to hide. Dreamy and surreal imagery even in the most mundane of places reflecting back onto itself.

My practice starts with literary references and my own writing to weave pick out the key emotions and ideas I am trying to express, then finding an image or mood to follow suit and expand remaining deeply rooted within the physical body.

Currently I have been expanding upon raw embodied experiences using digital and photographic mediums that go through layers of manual analogue manipulation, dissecting how much I can extract these experiences from the proliferation of super-modern acceleration and the incomprehensibly massive swathe of images being blasted at our screens. Using this fatigue of digital images as a chronic malaise that occupies the writings of my work. Finding space to work within the rigidity of digital programs.

Clips would find themselves constantly shuffled around and reanimated around the timeline. So through the production one film, many other films that would form vastly different shapes came in and out of the timeline.