PAULA WILKINS
Cluster Exhibitor | Cluster Contemporary | 2022
Untitled (Fixation III) | 2021
Paula Wilkins (b.1967, Essex) is a London based artist working in photography. She recently gained an MFA in Fine Art at Kingston School of Art. Paula Wilkins practice investigates the ever-expanding visual language created by the proliferation of image transference in the digital age. Through appropriation and re-photography of imagery from art history, film and popular culture she explores the recurring tropes and themes used to depict and construct gender ideals. An ongoing exploration of digital technology is core to her practice.
Through experiments with re-photography using multiple digital devices including the iPhone, TV screens and cameras she mimics and exaggerates the processes of image transference. The struggle between the technology and her ability or inability to control the image is both exciting and frustrating and this process becomes visible in the work. The resulting artworks hold a visible tension whereby the image hovers between the digital representation and the original, disrupted with digital scars and glitches and veer toward abstraction yet something of the familiar lingers within them.
Untitled (fixation V) | 2021
