| Lindsay writes about her work: For this body of work I have selected images of women from ‘old master paintings’ (Bronzino, Ingres, Leonardo and Van der Weyden) and from Renaissance illustrations of dissected plants as well as contemporary magazine cuttings. I have also included objects (windows), materials from the home and detritus (tumble dryer residue and vacuum cleaner dust). Francis Bacon said ‘a compost, from which to grow ideas and images’. My paintings are made up from a juxtaposition of disparate things. I play with proportion, cropping, and positioning. Some surfaces are created by the application of dribbling paint and layering of colour, this process relies on a loss of control contrasting sharply with the carefully rendered application of paint in the studied image. The tumble dryer felt is a reconstitution of clothing residue, I use this to create the equivalent of a painted surface. The triptych has traditional religious and historical art connotations; using this format I am able to create a dialogue between different images and times. I continually question the nature of beauty, seductive iconography and imagery, exploring how female ‘identity’ has been constructed through representation. I experiment with materials and illusion, the fetishism of art as object, coupled with the mundane stuff of life - my paintings are a collision of domesticity and art. |
