Liz Samways
Liz Samways is a Leeds-based artist, currently studying MA in Fine Art at Leeds Beckett University. Before this she worked predominantly in print and jewellery but is currently enjoying experimenting with photography, drawing, zines and small wire sculptures of horses.
She is interested in archive and memory – deliberate collecting versus unconscious memory, the things such as music, that can trigger it and the ‘infraordinary’ (noticing the small things). She also likes looking out of the bus window and recording the electronic bus pass 4 letter words in a very small notebook in the hope that one day she will find something to do with them. As a printmaker by instinct, she has enjoyed experimenting with photograms as part of the MA, as it moves one step away from the representation of a photo.
If I was lazy, I’d be enjoying this
“I realise that I have always lain in bed, usually whilst knowing I should have gotten up a while ago, looking at features of the room and projecting lines from them, bisecting angles, thinking about the relationships between the shapes and distances between them. I think this comes from studying technical drawing and garden design in the past, and the influence of my dad who was a frustrated designer and architect and was never far from a scale rule or graph paper. It’s one of those things you do without realising you’re doing it, and is quite annoying, so I thought it would be good to put it on to paper and perhaps exorcise it.”
Image Description:
From My Bed Exhibition photograph of artwork against a white wall in the White Column gallery. The artwork comprises three separate black & white photographs, linked and covered with an overlaying network of webbed blue thread that continues out onto the gallery walls. Each photo depicts different features of a loft bedroom and was taken from the viewpoint of lying in bed looking up or out. On the left is a grainy image of a closed Velux window in the ceiling of a loft room, taken from an angle below. A chimney stack and aerial can be seen through the window. There are strong contrasts with the Velux making a bright white rhomboid shape in the dark ceiling. In the central image there is a dormer window with three panes at the far end of the room with a half-closed blind. Surrounding the window is a pair of curtains with a leaf pattern. On top of the dressing table, under the window there are various bottles and framed photos which can just be made out. Bare tree branches are framed by the window frames. Finally, on the right the image shows a flat ceiling with the top of an open door and a shadow diagonally across the ceiling towards a central light fitting which is oval and looks a bit like a flying saucer. There are clothes on a hanger on the side of a wardrobe, and the door has a woodgrain pattern.
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