I am a visual artist whose practice sits at an intersection between print, drawing, photography, collage and most recently, video. I investigate thoughts and feelings about discomfort, loss, the fragility and resilience of the human body through lived experience, exploring identity and layers of human interaction within the constraints of historical environments and context through, but not exclusively, installations, backdrops and site specific works.

My forthcoming show “Borderland” at the Walcot Chapel, Bath (29 Oct - 3 Nov 2024) is a series of prints that explores the sense of loss, identity and discomfort created by dislocation and displacement, using fragile garments to evoke rather than depict a human presence.  The series emerged from a newspaper story about an El Salvadorian single father separated from his six-year old daughter at the US border.  Deported back to El Salvador, all he has left of his daughter is her fragile gauze dress hanging on the wall of his windowless one-room house. “This is a deeply emotive & intensely vibrant exhibition reflecting the multiple currents of displacement, loss, exile and hope in (post) colonial global contexts”  (Patricia Brien, UK-based curator, artist and researcher).

I undertook a 12-month residency at RISE, Frome culminating in a solo exhibition at The Whittox Gallery in Frome in 2023. I was awarded a National Lottery Project Grant “Develop Your Creative Practice’ from Arts Council England (@aceagrams) for this project. During the residency, I explored large-scale print works, video and text collages, reflecting on RISE as a former place of worship and its continuing identity as a place of refuge and sanctuary. See section on Undertow research residency and exhibition above under WORK for more details.

Further details in the ABOUT section on the website and Instagram @paulinesgstudio click on the Instagram icon below to view.