AURORA POPE

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AURORA POPE

Mixed media artist, Aurora Pope, moved to Brunswick, Georgia from Tennessee when her husband accepted a position at the College of Coastal Georgia. Now also an assistant professor herself at the college, it didn’t take long for Aurora to immerse herself into the Brunswick art scene when she began teaching various art courses. You can often find her creating or mentoring aspiring artists and students within historic downtown’s “Brunswick Stewdio”.

An awareness of the natural elements can be felt as she uniquely embraces earthy tones throughout the body of her work. If the material of the composition did not derive from a natural environment, the elements will certainly find a way into the imagery. Upon settling into Southern Georgia you can see an extension of her surroundings in the way that she incorporates the various coastal wildlife into her work including everything from egrets to fish scales and spines.

She is currently on the final piece of her series that is a reflection of our language and the way we have incorporated birds into our expressions. The next endeavor you can find her delving into is a sequence of handmade books. Her first book spine will consist of a real fish spine, setting the mood for the rest of the series.

LATE TO THE PARTY (Aurora Pope) Aurora Pope

TALES FROM THE NEST Eggshell, willow whips, waxed linen thread, paper, graphite, fabric, beads. TWO BIRDS, A ROCK (Aurora Pope)

From the artist

“I am terribly interested in defining space. I want to understand how an object affects the space in which it exists, how it is defined from its environment, and what might happen if that delineation did not take place. I like to explore the paradigms of inside and outside, of positive and negative space. So, the surface is of crucial importance to me. Additive and subtractive techniques might reveal a hidden world beneath or behind the object’s surface. The pattern might offer the illusion of infinity. Texture brings it beyond the visual and into the realm of the tactile, allowing the viewer (and the artist) a secondary means of understanding.

My work is process-driven. I reposition or erase elements throughout; I establish, edit, and remove edges. I want the materials to have a voice in the process, so each action leads to and informs the next. Marks, once made, cannot be undone, so with each change the entire composition shifts and adjusts. It is an organic progression, demanding reciprocity; and the work-in-progress takes on a life of its own. In this way, the object contributes to its own creation; and the scars that mark it denote its stages of growth. It becomes a memory.”