Relationship Process

“According to research, once our survival needs are met, no single aspect of our lives contributes more to our

satisfaction with life or to our sense of psychological well-being than our intimate relationships. Yet despite our best efforts, the seeds of relationship demise are often visible

from the very beginning”.[Dr. Prager PhD ]

DESCRIBING MY PRACTICE

• Human Relationships – Deception, Deceit & Breakdown

• Pressures of Modern Life

• Ipad paintings

ANALYSING MY PRACTICE

• Ironic• Difficult to appreciate• Fuzzy and blurry• Corporate• Concerns over presentation• Framing Issues

SITUATING MY PRACTICE

Patrick Caulfield Paul Knight Elina Brotherus

Grayson Perry

Patrick Caulfield

• Mixing reality with the unreal • Likened to paranoia and suspicion in a struggling relationship

where we might not clearly determine the boundaries between reality and the imagined.

Paul Knight

• Boundaries defined between the “individual” and the “couple”.

• Interpretation of identity within the couple and issues of compromise and individuality.

Grayson Perry

• Autobiographical influence • Observation of society• Looks at life’s dramas that have been in existence since time in memorial.

The Expulsion from Number 8 Eden Close

Elina Brotherus

I have been drawn to her work since Year 1 of my degree course. I felt aconnection that I didn’t fully understand at the time. One image in particular I found very poignant and was of the artist crying over a bowl of cereal.

Pippa Roberts

“Pants, is a pair of y-fronts with a 17ft waistband sewn onto a tree in Richmond Park. Humiliated, almost naked, the tree takes on the role of 'him', debased, his head shoved into the ground, stubbed out like a fag, no longer able to wield control”. By Pippa Roberts

BOOKS

• Women’s Infidelity: Living in Limbo by Michelle Langley

• Billy, Me & You: A Memoir of Grief and Recovery by Nicola Streeten.

• ‘I love you but I’m not in love with you’ by Andrew G. Marshall

Nicola Streeten (artist & author)

Billy, Me & You: A Memoir of Grief and Recovery by Nicola Streeten.Nicola Streeten's little boy, Billy, was two years old when he died following heart surgery for problems diagnosed only 10 days earlier. Thirteen years later, able to finally revisit a diary written at the time, Streeten began translating her notes into a graphic novel. The result, a gut-wrenchingly sad retrospective reflection from a 'healed' perspective, is an unforgettable portrayal of human responses to trauma• Autobiographical• Form of therapy/self help through art