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.