thisnewfeeling:IN CONVERSATION WITH: LUCY HARDCASTLE, ARTIST lucyhardcastle.com lucy
thisnewfeeling: IN CONVERSATION WITH: LUCY HARDCASTLE, ARTIST http://lucyhardcastle.com http://lucyhardcastle.tumblr.com/ http://instagram.com/luhardcastle [email protected] PBW Whilst searching for artists to feature in relation to our degree show ‘This New State of Feeling’ and poring over your portfolio I was pretty much overcome with glee. You were featured in an article called ‘Digital Surrealism’, you’ve produced 100% silk, computer-generated-print t-shirts, luscious 3D rendering, a metal pillow and a plethora of other tactile, extra—terrestrial-esque creations with ice, plaster, vivid goo, rocks, fluorescent tubes, technicolour gradients and silicone. Reading a bit about your motivations it seemed to become increasingly apt, your multidisciplinary approach and your interest in chromotherapy, the environmental impact of the textile industry and the more isolating or menacing side of technology. Your injection of painstakingly time-consuming craft into new software and equally your visceral, playful use of textures and colours as a reaction to the contemporary age seems to encapsulate Metamodernism’s pendulum like permutation between the traditional/modern narratives and techniques, primal and cutting-edge. Do you think this interpretation of your practise as epitomising Metamodernism is a skewed imposition of values or an accurate one? LH I believe it is an accurate interpretation. The combination of visceral vs meticulousness in my work links to my own artistic education in a contemporary post-modern environment. It is inevitable that what I produce is a follow-up from the post-internet movement. Keep reading An interview I did with Phoebe Bishop-Wright on Metamodernism and lots of other things :) -- source link