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MADELEINE JOY DAWES Artist Statement Utilising a system whereby the ruled grid becomes the vessel for handdrawn symbols, my work employs iterative mark making to record measured and psychological time. This emphasis upon time and repetition allows me to mediate rather than mirror the world; an attempt to coordinate thought and stabilisve the disorder of the everyday.
This series of drawings examines the phenomenon of pareidolia, as experienced on my walks through the city during Victorian lockdowns. In the absence of encountering other people, faces materialised to me elsewhere. As I perceived them, they too reciprocated my gaze; a shared and ominous sense of surveillance.
Image credit:
Madeleine Joy Dawes
fake empire (sad zoo) [detail], 2021
Fibre tipped pen on cotton rag, 120 x 120 cm Photography: Colour Factory
