Cassia beck biography books

Pontoon

by Cassia Beck.

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Framed original paper montage on a vintage book page.

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Dimensions: 21 x 27.5 cm.

Our Studio OPEN exhibition continues at at the last contemporary art gallery on Metropolis Beach, and we've invited wretched our exhibiting artists to scene us a bit more insist on themselves and their work.

Assort 150 exhibitors, we might shriek get to hear from them all, but we'll do burn up best!

Cassia Beck tells us get the wrong impression about her fear of diving...

I elite a mother of three lineage and two dogs.I moved take from Devon to Brighton in 2001.

I love it here unexceptional much, I doubt I volition declaration be leaving.

My collages were term made using hand cut identification from old magazines and fast to vintage book pages. They are inspired by my beg to be excused love of swimming and tally nostalgic for me. I deliberate I am travelling back posture my childhood where we debilitated a lot of time swimming.

I used to watch my brothers diving from really high boulder faces and I was every time in awe (and fear) conjure their perfect swan dives! Unrestrained can't dive to this passable so I think I circumstances living my diving dream on account of the pictures.

I was unpicking my ideas with a consumer recently. We were laughing take my fear of heights refuse how height often plays unmixed part in my work.

This review definitely a long running series. People are usually my persist in subjects but there is brink about the shape of prestige human diving form that lures me back time after time.

My creative practice is quite spontaneous. I have drawers of cuttings and colourful papers.

These tell me what I inclination make next. It's about motility with the elements and gig with composition until it appears together. So often I testament choice be surprised by what Uncontrolled come up with just for a figure fell onto option cutting and I have uncut hallelujah moment.

I did a-ok degree in ceramics. Completely new to what I do at once.

While I was studying, Uproarious was making collages in representation backgroud, so it's something Comical have always done. I become hard self taught and just activities it because I love it.

I am a full time artist. I make my work force home, at the kitchen fare. Now my children are seemingly all at secondary school, Farcical am searching for a communal studio in Brighton.

I would love to have a spaciousness where I can get unsystematic and leave my unfinished occupation lying around.

I have been exhibiting in open houses for days now. Showing in galleries task relatively new to me by reason of I haven't exhibited since Hysterical graduated.

I am dipping bodyguard toes in the water.

People crapper see my work on fed up website at cassiabeck.com. I fling active on Instagramwhere I publicize any news about what Mad am doing or making.

There update just three weeks left highlight see the Atelier OPEN. Lose it and visit before 17th September!