GILLIAN ANDERSON ART
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Exposure Through Trauma

Artist's Statement  

My work takes a psychoanalytic approach to human existence, transience and mortality. I focus on memory and dream to discuss the relationship between trauma and exposure, the abuse of power over the vulnerable, and the fragility of childhood innocence. Absence, traces, fragmentation, displacement and movement are common themes.
                                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

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Ebb 2011, Oil on Paper, 44cmx56cm

Ebb (2011)

Ebb is a comment on repressed memory as a result of childhood exposure to trauma.Fragmented memories and dreams are reconstructed as a complete whole, thus becoming a visual translation of the co-existence of absence and presence. Ambiguous, partially hidden imagery, and your uncovering of it, is metaphor for the revelation and vulnerability associated with innocence and sexual awakening.
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Neither Here nor There 2011, Oil and Pencil on Board, 85cmx42.5cm

Neither Here nor There (2011)

Neither Here nor There stems from an interest in trauma, exposure, the conscious, and the unconscious. Fragmented childhood memories and dreams are reconstructed as a complete whole, becoming a visual translation of both absence and presence co-existing in a place where space and time do not.
A figure moves into, and “becomes,” a barely discernible, fragmented landscape in the distance before emerging from the other side and exiting into the unknown. The lack of control surrounding the movement and direction of the figure is metaphor for the vulnerability associated with innocence and sexual awakening.

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Original Rorschach Ink Blots
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After Rorschach Series, 2011, Oil on Paper, 44cmx56cm



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After Rorschach 2011, Oil and Pencil on Board, 38cmx25.5cm
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