Sally Chinea sallychinea.com
Why Bookarts?
Why not? Books are increasing overshadowed by digital media.I enjoy the tactile quality of a book and see old, discarded books as an opportunity to alter, transform, thereby extending and portraying a different story.
What materials do you like to use?
Everything and anything! Recycled and discarded objects are my equivalent to a 'bank page' The place from which I can create something new but which has an existing history. Found objects, textiles, paper, or clay - anything to hand!
What inspires you?
My artistic practice explores boundaries and preconceptions, in particular distinctions between craft, fine art and gender stereotyping. I am interested in how craft activities, traditionally associated with women and domesticity, such as knitting and embroidery can be incorporated into fine art practice.
I create subtle yet playful interventions that may be initially overlooked or misread, to highlight the understated quiet virtues and philosophies of craft. I seek to challenge our perceptions which are often lost in the fast pace of life in the twenty first century.
Why not? Books are increasing overshadowed by digital media.I enjoy the tactile quality of a book and see old, discarded books as an opportunity to alter, transform, thereby extending and portraying a different story.
What materials do you like to use?
Everything and anything! Recycled and discarded objects are my equivalent to a 'bank page' The place from which I can create something new but which has an existing history. Found objects, textiles, paper, or clay - anything to hand!
What inspires you?
My artistic practice explores boundaries and preconceptions, in particular distinctions between craft, fine art and gender stereotyping. I am interested in how craft activities, traditionally associated with women and domesticity, such as knitting and embroidery can be incorporated into fine art practice.
I create subtle yet playful interventions that may be initially overlooked or misread, to highlight the understated quiet virtues and philosophies of craft. I seek to challenge our perceptions which are often lost in the fast pace of life in the twenty first century.
