Serena Curmi - Bristol Asylum Case Studies - 32

£500.00
13 x 13 x 3 cm Oil on panel 2023 ‘Bristol Asylum, Case Studies' is a series of oil paintings of patients who were resident at Bristol Asylum in the 19th century. The paintings are produced from photographs included in the patients' admission books, now housed at Bristol Archives. The project highlights those on the fringes of society, challenging traditional, hierarchical assumptions about the subjects of portraiture and reconsidering whose likeness is deemed worthy of remembrance. My landscapes are informed the many regions I have explored. My approach is intuitive and utilises painting techniques that emulate the transformative effects of light, weather, time and human intervention on a landscape.
13 x 13 x 3 cm Oil on panel 2023 ‘Bristol Asylum, Case Studies' is a series of oil paintings of patients who were resident at Bristol Asylum in the 19th century. The paintings are produced from photographs included in the patients' admission books, now housed at Bristol Archives. The project highlights those on the fringes of society, challenging traditional, hierarchical assumptions about the subjects of portraiture and reconsidering whose likeness is deemed worthy of remembrance. My landscapes are informed the many regions I have explored. My approach is intuitive and utilises painting techniques that emulate the transformative effects of light, weather, time and human intervention on a landscape.