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Julie Louise Bemment
jbemment@hotmail.com | 07799 061884 | http://juliebemmentfineart.com
Phenomenology is the philosophical study of the
structures of human experience and consciousness.
Phenomena are experienced in our state of being
aware of our surroundings, through the senses
including seeing, touching, hearing and tasting. This
concludes by how our interpretation and thought
processes react to that which is experienced.
Driven by an interest in human perception, time, and
attitudes to physical and pictorial space, I am curious
in exploring our relationship with the world around
us. The work uses an expansive visual and material
vocabulary through painting and photography, and
in installations created from set-ups of found objects.
Considering architecture and structural influences I
investigate the way in which individuals engage with,
understand, and respond to their surroundings,
whilst taking into account how the brain
manipulates the information we receive.
Mixing abstracted motifs strongly connected to
architecture, yet influenced by Minimalism, the works
play on traditional technical conventions of pictorial
layering, illusion, and use of geometric form. Surfaces
and shadows create intersections of time and space,
intensify visual perception, and colour is used
intuitively to create unique visual illusions.
‘React’, 2015 (photograph)
I have also become interested in the stranger
qualities of our vision, such as the way in which upon
seeing an object we are able to either look over or
alternatively focus intensively on it as an isolated
detail. In the latter everything around what we are
looking at becoming a blur that allows us, like a
portal, to become drawn into and almost step inside
an object.
‘Temporal’, 2015 (photographed set up)
‘Provoke’, 2015 (acrylic on canvas)
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