Marie-Claire Shayes

BA (HONS) Fine Art Top Up Degree

Address: 13 Wesley Walk Charford Bromsgrove B60 3NU

Contact: maz10593@Hotmail.co.ukTelephone: 07517463803Facebook: Fine art - Memory

Artist Statement

The fundamental theme of my practice is the concept of memories. I’ve always been drawn towards the exploration of memories, the nature of uncertainty and why they become blurred and distorted over time. I’m absorbed in why and how we often remember two different memories as one single memory. I have been exploring this throughout my artistic practice using different media to symbolise fragments of the past, to create work documenting and exploring the recollection of those particular memories and incidents.

‘The haze’Photography 21.0 x 29.7 cm

‘Hidden memory’Layer photography21.0 x 29.7 cm

‘Mask of the past’42.0 x 59.4 cmphotography

A series‘Hanging up the past’42.0 x 59.4 cmSite-Specific - BromsgroveClay, photography

‘Overlay confusion’21.0 x 29.7 cmLayers of Acetate

‘Childhood memory’59.4 x 84.1 cmSalt dough, photography

On going series‘Childhood Memory - Snapshot’59.4 x 84.1 cmSalt dough, photography

Artist CV