Berney-Gibson
Selected work:
Homecoming Queen
Green Plates
Goat Rodeo
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The Hours —
Imprint Magazine Interview
Also exhibited as part of Multiply Virtual Exhibition,
c/o Bea Buckland-Willis.
The Hours was interviewed on and featured in Imprint Magazine Vol.56 No.03.
The following is an interview excerpt from their
Emerging Artist Feature: ‘Spacial Relations’.
Emerging Artist Feature: ‘Spacial Relations’.
Early Morning, Solvent on Sheepskin, 29.5 x 41cm.
Morning, Solvent on Sheepskin, 29.5 x 41.5cm.
“I’ve spent the last few years thinking heavily about how we relate to space. Actions and movements that build up over time, moments you have once and then have a thousand times over again. Research into this brought me to think about the cultural narratives we hold around repetition. The romantic notions of breakfast with friends, the noble narrative of toiling work late into the night.”
Afternoon, Solvent on Sheepskin, 29.5 x 41.5cm.
“I found it interesting how this is something we do personally. We romanticise these banal moments of our lives. We romanticise the repetition and endlessly cascading days. I broach this by intersecting these human elements with the flat structures of current life; planes of concrete, tiled spaces and plastic countertops. When pressed into sheepskin, they are tonally and texturally bled together. We become the stories we romanticise.”
Evening, Solvent on Sheepskin, 27.5 x 41cm.
“I found these were fed heavily by a culture of nostalgia. Trend cycles impact what movies we look at; what photographic styles we pick to portray our moments. Suddenly we are performing cultural tropes and costumes and enjoying stylised mediocrity.”
Late Evening, Solvent on Sheepskin, 30.5 x 37 cm.