Master of Fine Art School of Fine Art

Jennifer Aldred

(she/her)

A crease or fold in a piece of paper, or a smudge on a windowpane can hold different registers depending on how they sit; depending on if they were applied with care for instance, or pressure. The work often returns to how presence is felt through trace rather than depiction: not the actual body, more what exists around it. It often begins with small signals of contact or intimacy, and expands into an examination of how we relate to objects, to each other, and to the surface of the world. The work draws from the street but processes it inwardly, translating it into a space of slowness, ambiguity, emotional resonance and care. Things with high circulation are brought into stillness or isolation and elevated without being glorified.

I move between image and object, testing how things hold together, and how familiar forms shift when reframed through scale, cropping, or repetition. I question the stability of meaning and its context dependence. Slight distortions can alter or open up new readings. A pendant ‘M’ becomes a signal. A balloon becomes a question. Resolution is often not the aim, but holding a piece open, letting it do just enough, paying attention to gaps, to what’s missing or withheld, allows for a friction to build within an image.

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Contact
jjaldred@gmail.com
J.Aldred1@student.gsa.ac.uk
jenniferaldred.co.uk
@jennifer_aldred
Works
Ian
Porous
Lotus

Ian

Ian

pen, paint, pencil on pvc, 240x240cm

Porous

Porous

graphite on whiteboard, 75x61cm

Lotus

Lotus

inkjet prints, sellotape, 300x200cm