Pamela Sullivan
My formal background is in Fine Art Painting however I have worked in the field of Graphic design for the last ten years and my work has evolved through the utilisation of these two disciplines. My work is about everyday encounters and social interaction and how the people who come in and out of our lives can have a profound and deep effect both in a positive and negative way on who we are.
A momentary encounter can stay with us forever immortalised in a story passed to friends. Powerful words given with no thought for the consequence can cause damage beyond repair or make us stronger, make us fighters. Often words are used in an ambiguous context to hide our true feelings and emotions, why in a world of mass communication can we not just simply tell someone how we feel towards them?
I explore this human condition using visual imagery and typography, utilising the ambiguity of fractured sentences and open statements to give the viewer the opportunity to lend their own understanding and experiences to my artwork often giving it new meaning and fluidity.
My current work looks at mass communication. We have become a society that places great importance on constant communication whether through text messaging, e-mail, Facebook, Twitter, blogging and yet do we really communicate? These forums promote small talk; the etiquette of conversation is broken. Often painful statements are revealed to be ignored or lost in a tide of banalities. Although we can now communicate globally to whomever we want on a twenty four hour basis, we are solitary and alone the group divided into the individual by technology that was originally intented to bring us together.
