Painting & Printmaking School of Fine Art
Iris May

The primary concern of my practice is creating solutions to my own loneliness. The creation of collapsible flat-pack sculptural bodies has allowed a freedom of movement in my working. I’m interested in how to assert control over a public space in a way that is minimally destructive. There is an inherent queerness in this way of making, as the very idea of transforming a body leaves it in a hostile public space, especially after the recent ruling. An increasingly transient world has permeated into my entire practice, and a process of cannibalising my old works through collage, a forced kind of ‘diminishing return’ has emerged. Faced with a world in which attention is economy, it is a mighty task to process even a day’s worth of visual stimulus. This movability and re-purposing of means figures in my works hold their own histories. The memory of which is akin to a life.
