Artist Bio
As a recent MA Fine Art graduate, after 25 years working as an architect, Shelley's works are expected to be spatial. With a personal interest in one’s identity, portraiture, and the impact of grief, her research and art making have developed into the sphere of liminality, rites of passage, and otherworldly spaces. Exploring themes of the experience of the liminality, navigation through it, from entering, being within, and the journey itself. Contemplating moments of the unknown within the sensation of an other-worldly space.
Working digitally and with mixed media, between maquettes, photography, collage, and hand drawing, works do not conclude, allowing them to transform and evolve, sometimes melding multiple works. The gift of time to reappraise and reconsider, as a manifesto, allows growth and reflection on continued life experiences.
The sociology of spaces, human interactions, reactions to, and experiences of spaces is key to Shelley's making and line of enquiry in her works. The in-between moments are a mystery to be encountered. More recently, Shelley's works are installations with audience decision-making generating works as an output of the experience of being within a space. Creating a 'token' of experience as she draws the audience into a space where the boundaries between the real and the virtual can blur.