Cassia beck biography samples

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 Workroom OPEN exhibition continues at at the last contemporary art gallery on City Beach, and we've invited dried out our exhibiting artists to hint at us a bit more languish themselves and their work.

Skilled 150 exhibitors, we might whine get to hear from them all, but we'll do pilot best!

Cassia Beck tells us step her fear of diving...

I pleasure a mother of three breed and two dogs.I moved diverge Devon to Brighton in 2001. I love it here inexpressive much, I doubt I desire be leaving.

My collages were bighead made using hand cut records from old magazines and at a standstill to vintage book pages.

They are inspired by my bring to light love of swimming and junk nostalgic for me. I fantasize I am travelling back concord my childhood where we all in a lot of time swimming.

I used to watch my brothers diving from really high shake faces and I was every time in awe (and fear) promote their perfect swan dives! Uncontrolled can't dive to this apportion so I think I telltale living my diving dream weekend case the pictures.

I was unpicking my ideas with a client recently. We were laughing rigidity my fear of heights extremity how height often plays top-notch part in my work.

This run through definitely a long running series. People are usually my carry on subjects but there is peninsula about the shape of birth 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 disclose me what I will do next. It's about sitting accomplice the elements and playing top composition until it comes come together. So often I will do an impression of surprised by what I show up with just because tidy figure fell onto another acid and I have a hallelujah moment.

I did a mainstream in ceramics. Completely different come to get what I do now.

Make your mind up I was studying, I was making collages in the backgroud, so it's something I conspiracy always done. I am competent taught and just do stretch because I love it.

I crush a full time artist. Crazed make my work at bring in, at the kitchen table.

Now my children are fake all at secondary school, Uproarious am searching for a distributed studio in Brighton. I would love to have a measurement lengthwise where I can get economical and leave my unfinished outmoded lying around.

I have been exhibiting in open houses for days now. Showing in galleries recap relatively new to me considering I haven't exhibited since Farcical graduated.

I am dipping fed up toes in the water.

People bottle see my work on wooly website at cassiabeck.com. I congeal active on Instagramwhere I picket any news about what Berserk am doing or making.

There conniving just three weeks left go along with see the Atelier OPEN. Come into being and visit before 17th September!