Painting & Printmaking School of Fine Art

Eilis Giles-Book

My practice reflects an attempted visualisation of internal and alternate realities. My paintings and digital works reference a history of various internet aesthetics and movements. This vast digital realm parallels my quest to understand the space that connects internal and physical existences. My work uses the abstract and surreal as a way to liberate circular inner conversations and to actualise my thoughts, materialising them into the physical world. The softness and blurriness of my paintings reflect disorganised memory, a melancholy acknowledgement of the cuteness and kitschness of childhood. My paintings aim to provoke a sense of nostalgia or confusion, in a sense reflecting a dreamlike dimension, they provide a space to feel comfortable in inescapable human disorientation. My practice explores my own personal perceptions of femininity and how I identify these feelings within pop culture and growing up in a digital age.

Contact
eilisgilesbook@gmail.com
@eilisgilesbook
Works

At least I can help you remember

Acrylic on MDF, 300 x 200 cm

More used to silence than I ever expected

Acrylic on MDF, 35 x 30 cm

I believe in a false connection

Acrylic on MDF, 120 x 100 cm

The things that repeat have mutated

Acrylic on MDF, 100 x 240 cm