Sculpture

Toilet Humour

Cigarette

Critique of Practice

Artistic Purpose and Technique

Over the past eleven years ashcroft has created different bodies of contemporary abstract and imagery fine art paintings and sculpture. Her studio practice flourishes and fuses passion, honesty and personality into practice.

Ashcroft's work asks how do we develop our thinking about place, life, class and relationships? Her work hints at ways to reconsider these issues. There is a constant struggle in my work to successfully manipulate and transform literal representation into another language through the materials used. Sculptures evolve through experimentation with the three dimensional plain, the process and utilizes kitsch, popular consumerist culture and painting language. She is influenced by an array of historical and contemporary artists, with particularly admiration for Richard Hamilton and Claus Oldenburg.

Ashcroft's sculptures have a stake in political agendas but obviously poke fun in order to ridicule. Humour and visual format enable the viewer to connect with the work without being perplexed by the complex theory back boning the work, becoming a positive experience.

Technique To-date

Ashcroft's sculptures are derived from discarded objects, re-used to surface a new identity. She combines and manually manipulate metals, fabrics, foam padding, plaster, cable wire.

She states:

I have a solid visualization of what the sculptures will look like, feel like and 'sit' like before commencing a series of work. I formulate work plans and multi-angle sketches relating to the production process. Gravity and technicalities deny the initial idea as a possibility, initiating a re-evaluation of the work with a new field of possibilities.

The essence of her work is rooted in the process. What is derived from the process is not about the experience of making art, but rater what comes out of the experience. The process is an emotional, impulsive, exasperating experience.