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- Heather English
Heather
English
Out
Using discarded items as the source material for her work, Heather English creates installations made mainly up of prints, photographs and sculptural elements. Using these 3 core methodologies, English navigates her spirit through harmonious compositions to visually translate the interconnectedness of life.
Using the ‘jigsaw’ as a metaphor for her work, she uses the act of collecting as her main component to her practice. Using the collected items like fruit nets and paper scraps, she uses embossment, screenprint and mono-printing techniques to create her images. The discarded items act as emblems of everyday encounters in a throwaway society. It is an act of empathy and salvation for the inanimate and an economic practice as well as an artistic and spiritual one. Honoring all living and non-living things in her environment has mirrored in her multidisciplinary practices, where no one way is the right way and exploration is the key to understanding.
The title ‘Out’ is a generalised term associated with the artist’s external intuition, a critique on throwing things ‘out’ and a suggestion of simply being out of place.