Lisa Peachey

My work considers what it means to make marks in the world; why we desire them; what we ask of an artist; and the value we place on them. Focusing on the relationship of the artist and their material, the work aims to explore the reduction of the actual to its representation, as more than an act of remembrance. Why, since the evidence of the Lascaux caves, have we felt the need to record the world through diagram, object, photograph, story, myth? This particular work calls on known ways of making images and objects as a precedent for a mark-making that is process led, and sacrificial. The promise of beauty and perfection that an image and its reduction of the world can render is accepted as a perfect dream only, and so failure and loss are accepted as part of the process of making. This back and forth, between romanticism and self-reflection, seduction and abstraction are central to the process.