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ArchiveBorn 1978, Manchester, UK
Samantha Donnelly’s work is concerned with relationships within and between sculpture, drawing, collage and lens-based practice. Her starting points are simple; from something present in the home, a magazine advert, vintage jewellery, mementos, or found illustrations. Her interest is in reconfiguring some aspect of what it is, by creating it again in an altered state - as a new entity, as a mimetic (re-)construction, as partial homage. Often this process is repeated or multiplied by being made into a set of works with a similar source. The works produced have a reference to their past but have undergone change, albeit a slight shift or total metamorphosis. Therefore the final outcomes of this process are often precarious with disturbances and inconsistencies, suggesting dislocated narratives; some utterly fragmented and destroyed, others decadent and lavish, reminiscent of the Baroque.
 Sketch 7, 2009, Mixed media, 11 x 9 x 17.5cm |
