ESTELLE WOOLLEY

Website

http://estellewoolley.webs.com

College / University

University Of Chester

Program / Degree

Fine Art

Member type

Artist

If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?

Conceptual, Drawing, Installation, Painting, Performance, Photography, Sculpture

I am...

an interdisciplinary artist in my final year at University.

About my artwork

I have a deep-rooted affinity with the countryside and its resources, in part informed by my family’s long association with farming. My work is directly involved with nature and our interactions, experiences and interventions with it. I work with tactile objects, collected and sourced for their delicate forms and metaphorical potential. Used in certain combinations or repetitions these materials may start to pose intrinsic questions about human and animal nature, and the way we operate. I have an interest in the way that we work with or against nature, at the domestic level, and beyond.

My current practice deals with the sculptural readymade and installation. Through a minimal use of materials I explore possible narratives and depths of meaning. In my work I hope to convey a sense of mystery and disturbance, of evocation and sensation, while always highlighting the beauty inherent in the forms used.

http://estellewoolley.webs.com

Artists I like

Janine Antoni, Tom Friedman, Mona Hatoum, Susie MacMurray, Rachel Goodyear, Alice Maher, Polly Morgan, Angela Roe, Damien Hirst, Cornelia Parker, Francis Alys, Dorothy Cross, Wolfgang Laib, Bill Viola, Christian Boltanski, Paul Nash, Paul Fryer, Meret Oppenheim

Interests

Making art, Talking about art, Looking at art,
Singing, Clarinet, Piano, Saxophone
Vintage fashion

What exhibitions are good at the moment?

The Dark Monarch; magic and modernity (Tate st Ives)
Ron Muek (Manchester Art Gallery)

Centre of the artworld:

nowhere and everywhere