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- Ashleigh Boyd
Ashleigh
Boyd
Appropriation of a Memory
Ashleigh Boyd is a Limerick based painter, printmaker and photographer currently exploring psychological concepts such as the psychology of memory and subconscious perceptions of reality. Her body of work ‘Appropriation of a Memory’ investigates the memories of her mothers life. Centred around found images of Ashleigh’s mother during several different time periods of her life, the work combines abstract and figurative painting techniques with digital and physical editing. Through these techniques Ashleigh inserts herself into reappropriated photographic memories. Working with ideas of destruction and reconstruction, blurring, and omitting; Ashleigh’s work provides an insight not only into aspects of subconscious exploration but also the multi-faceted and complicated ideas of subjectivity, womanhood, intimacy and femininity. In her practice, Ashleigh threads the thin line between non-representative and figurative representations of the subject matter in order to completely round out her thought process artistically. Purposefully introducing these two elements together allows both the Artist and the viewer of the work to combine the visual understanding of figurative aspects and the natural curiosity of viewing something that cannot be understood and needs to rely more on the senses and the subconscious