Claire Winfield - Painting as Object & Process

Painting as Object & Process

The work in the exhibition at University Centre, Milton Keynes was shown on two floors and hung in chronological order starting downstairs in the Foyer Gallery.

The exhibition served as a mini retrospective showing selected works from a six-year period demonstrating the significant developments, which took place within my interest in "Painting as Object and Process" during that time.

For detailed images of individual pieces, see below.



What began initially as a response to the natural world and in particular the processes at work along the coast developed into an almost entirely process based approach where my concerns lay only with the works' own materiality. Exploration of the materials involved in the physical construction of what is commonly perceived to be a painting led me to create work on the boundary between that and other art forms. For example, the absence of paint in the woven canvases and the absence of canvas in the wooden constructions suggest associations with textiles and sculpture. Working at the edge of the medium became a major preoccupation in my practice during this time, and through an ongoing exploration of materials and processes I strived to redefine what, for me, are painting's boundaries. Throughout this process an interesting parallel emerged from my early interest in the coastal landscape, itself an edge, a place where land meets sea: its appearance reflecting a constantly changing dialogue between the two.