Fiona Spence Reid
Fiona Spence Reid
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My arts practice is centred around the symbiotic relationship between artist and curator. I employ the use of colour theory to explore how monochrome collections effect a viewer’s perception of colour.
I use a psychogeographical method of collecting. A map of my movement is documented through collecting like a time capsule. I then consider my emotional connection to the objects by personifying them and creating a sentimental hierarchy.
This hierarchy becomes the framework for my methods of display. For The Yellow Museum: A Collection of Found Ephemera (2021), I produced a cabinet to house a monochromatic yellow collection. The 68 found objects dictated the shape and size of the cabinet.
My Birmingham in Yellow (2020) catalogue was displayed at IKON gallery in May 2021
The annual Degree Show is a highly anticipated event amongst staff, students, external partners and friends of the School of Art – it provides a platform for the work that the students have spent so long conceiving and producing. The 2023 Degree Show has been realised through an ongoing testing of ideas in public arenas in which the discourse around art practice takes place. This process of realising practice which engages with audiences has over […]
