Mini commission 1 - Dr Sally Bailey - Sally Bailey is an artist, writer and researcher living in the West Midlands. She successfully completed her practice-led PhD at the Birmingham School of Art, BCU, in November 2021. Her thesis - Locating a Space of Exchange: re-imagining the liminal in contemporary painting practice - reframes the liminal as a conceptual space between painter and painting, process and outcome; examining how the painter can exploit the potentiality of this transformative space to develop experimental practice and push forward current thinking.
https://www.sallybaileyart.co.uk
after / before
mal / functioning
dis / connections
sub / conscious
and what is
imagined / memory?
pushed down / brought forward?
even real?
Sally created text and a mixed media painting to which I converted through video editing to explore movement and distortion. Sally talked to me about how uncovering journals and writing from the past can take us to a place where a response to trauma lived the recycling of these writings allows for new beginnings that otherwise would not exist.
https://vimeo.com/1036798500 (A video response to a photo of a mixed media painting by Dr Sally Bailey: title: Painting Trip (2024))
