University College for the
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Wendy Maybourne
Her early work was influenced by artists such as Anselm Kiefer and Andy Goldsworthy, Richard Long and Joseph Beuys. She created highly textural paintings, mostly of landscapes. An interest in sculpture developed at college, where she explored the 3D potential within her practice. She also enjoyed printmaking, in particular making colographs inspired by her local area of Whitstable, in Kent. Informing her current practice is a fascination with how sound afffects our daily lives. The idea of appropriating sound to create a sculptural space elsewhere seems to her an entirely natural response to her environment. She believes that by isolating sounds and transporting them from their original context, they become something almost physical and meaningful in their own right. This idea produced a number of sound recordings and also some descriptive 2D and 3D pieces. More recently she has been experimenting with video, mixing ambient sounds with music, to create a more intense response to her work. Among her influences have been Bill Fontana, Bruce Nauman and Janet Cardiff.
Influences and aims
Her journey through life and the flow of information and images that surround and influence her everyday, by transforming spaces and creating imaginary worlds, are central to Wendy's ideas. She creates images that might embody primal fears and fantasies, or else symbolise those moments of physical and emotional transition, that shape every life.Her early work was influenced by artists such as Anselm Kiefer and Andy Goldsworthy, Richard Long and Joseph Beuys. She created highly textural paintings, mostly of landscapes. An interest in sculpture developed at college, where she explored the 3D potential within her practice. She also enjoyed printmaking, in particular making colographs inspired by her local area of Whitstable, in Kent. Informing her current practice is a fascination with how sound afffects our daily lives. The idea of appropriating sound to create a sculptural space elsewhere seems to her an entirely natural response to her environment. She believes that by isolating sounds and transporting them from their original context, they become something almost physical and meaningful in their own right. This idea produced a number of sound recordings and also some descriptive 2D and 3D pieces. More recently she has been experimenting with video, mixing ambient sounds with music, to create a more intense response to her work. Among her influences have been Bill Fontana, Bruce Nauman and Janet Cardiff.
