About
Exploring the boundaries between sculpture and photography, I use two-dimensional materials as subject matters—photographs, graph paper, wood veneer, cardboard. The dimensional loss of experiential space in the photographic moment comes to represent a perceptual gain in my surfaces as rendered subjectively. I aim to use photography as a sculptural tool to reconfigure form, or as a drafting tool to re-imagine spaces, allowing it to become propositional rather than referential.
Duality has been a recurring theme that runs through my practice. Dual perspectives collide in my collage works, and my models explore duality by folding, curving and rephotographing photographs—one image as seen through another. Currently, my fascination in dualities is explored using consecutive slices of wood veneer, pulling open slices of wood in order to generate a void from what was once solid, collapsing and expanding this new spatiality through the combination of illusionistic and actual carpentry joins. For me, this process stands as metaphorical for photography, the duality of surface and space coexisting in the same object.
Ironically, photography in offering us only a slice peeled from space and time, transcends its function as representer of things, and offers instead a glimpse into the a-spatial and a-temporal, resisting both object-hood and situation-ness and rendering grasp-less our experience. Through my work I aim to suspend and record that slippage between two and three dimensions.
Bio
Graduating in Photography from the Royal College of Art in 2008, my MA show was awarded the Photographers Gallery graduates award, after which followed a group exhibition ‘Fresh Faced Wide Eyed’ at the Photographers Gallery, Gt Newport St London. In 2009 I was selected as Artist in Residence at Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, Florida. From 2009 until 2014 I was teaching at University for the Creative Arts at Farnham campus and within this role I also studied for my PG Cert in Teaching and Learning in the Creative Arts. I currently live and work in Padova.
Contact
sally.jane.verrall@gmail.com