The Screen
West Coast CollageRebecca Spooner
13 November - 06 January 2013
West Coast Collage
A lyrical Super 8 jaunt along the West Wales coast
eRebecca Spooner has been invited by Mission Gallery to produce a new Super 8 film to be presented in the[…]space.
Rebecca’s rich installations are created using 'lo-fi technology’ such as Polaroid photography and particularly Super 8 and 16mm film, often presented alongside an array of natural materials and found objects.
Interest in the early, British 20th Century landscape painters such as Paul Nash, John Piper and Ceri Richards, has led Rebecca to take a painterly approach to landscape - exploring colour, light, form and composition. The Welsh landscape in particular is captured in recurring motifs - borders, valleys, mountains, waterfalls and wildlife, which become metaphors for human emotions and desires.
Rebecca also finds inspiration in literary sources and techniques such as the nostalgic depictions of rural life in the work of Laurie Lee and vivid atmospheric scenes found in the work of Daphne Du Maurier, rich with pathetic fallacy and a sense of the uncanny.
It is through the multi-layered and rich literary, artistic and environmental associations that Rebecca’s work invites a personal, instinctive response.
