Miranda Owen Wintersgill

I make paintings that explore the interior and the inbetween through a lens of the female confessional whilst navigating complex inner worlds. Paintings emerge through attempts to remember; I crawl through walls of the rooms in my head trying to sink deeper into them and remember things into reality. I’m interested in the edge of things – sleep and wake, reality and memory, light and dark – which leads to dream like stills that sit between truth and memory. My focus on remembering explores grief as well as acting as an attempt to slow down time. In my practice I think of remembering as a visceral act. In memory, such as in dreams, the lines between ‘truth’ and imagination are blurry and uncertain. What makes something true? Is that the same definitive that makes something real? If I remember a lie or a fictionalised version of my life enough- can it become real? Currently my remembering centres around the poetry of light and my own existence in the night. I often feel I predominantly exist in the dark due to the insomnia I have had since childhood and my work explores how that liminality impacts my experience in space.