Taygan Bassi

 
 

My practice is driven by my lived experience of navigating life with depression.

It entails a melancholic introspection, a way of working through complex emotions, an abnormal perception of reality and a disjointed connection to self. Straying from the stereotypical dark imagery associated with sadness and depression, my work aims to represent experience as a way to understand ourselves and to propose that chaos enables growth. My work seeks to highlight the value of lived experience as a factor that both connects and divides us. It also explores symbolism in mythology, collectively understood stories and characters that have become universal unconscious metaphors for human experience, emotion and growth.

 

what brings us to tears will lead us to grace, 2020
Photograph
841mm x 594mm

 
 
 
 
 
Gracia Haby

I have been collaborating with Louise Jennison since 1999, making artists’ books, collages, large-scale installations, prints, drawings, zines, and various tales. Besotted still, it appears, with paper for its adaptable, concealable, revealing nature, we use an armoury of play, the poetic and familiar too, with the intention of luring you into our A(rtists’ books) to Z(ines).

As artists and wildlife carers, our practice frequently concerns the natural world, addressing themes of conservation and biodiversity. Our home-based studio is also home to our wildlife shelter, Tiny but Wild.

I collage with words about dance for Fjord Review.

http://gracialouise.com
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