Jemima Moore
About
Jemima Moore (b.1992) paints to exist within a space that is in equal measure analytic and intuitive. The results are paintings which can be understood as maps; maps to spaces that exist somewhere between reality and subconscious.
Moore imagines throwing an image into a pond: a Rubens, a Giotto, a football team formation. The artist use oil stick to draw the image, tracing the forms onto panel. The forms dissolve as the image falls deeper into the pond. The layers of marks submerge and compress as she adds more, then scrubs them back into the picture plane and the surface of the timber.
The water of the pond becomes the subconscious. From this murky place Moore uses the visual language of discrete data: dots, lines and rhythm to chart a new course. There are still particles of the original image but now they are refracted through the body of water, disrupted by the bubbles and scum of the painted surface.
The original image is lost, but the painting becomes a new thing in and of itself. A map which reterritorializes a place in the subconscious.
Moore is Shortlisted for the Contemporary British Painting Prize 2024 and is working towards a solo show in 2025.
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