Kezia Cantwell-Wright

Chelsea College of Art and Design, London : BA (hons) Fine Art: Painting

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Artist Statement
My works are all an indulgence in material, light and colour such as my most recent piece an installation consisting of a two metre circle of red wax set into the floor of a room and lit from beneath. The surface of the wax appearing still in its molten forming state reveals its making process and emanates its heat and energy. Like my sand paintings made by laboriously dusting sand mixed with pigment directly onto the floor in a pattern of interlocking circles and squares; these pieces are made through a physical and repetitive process, each small variation in the surface is a record of this action and therefore the piece has a visual intensity of concentrated time and energy. The surface immediately entices the viewer both visually and physically before being confronted and restricted by its fragility. The work hovers between its very real material, physical existence and something that is ephemeral, transcendental and otherworldly.

My work uses geometric shapes (squares, circles and grids) and saturated primary colours in an attempt to find an ideal aesthetic and investigates the contradiction, tension and dialogue between this ideal aesthetic and that of the everyday environment. My installations sculptures and paintings use of physical everyday materials and my photographs highlighting of details of everyday life attempt to find a pure simple and often unexpected beauty in the most basic elements of the everyday.

Kezia Cantwell-Wright

Chelsea College of Art and Design, London : BA (hons) Fine Art: Painting