Marina Collard is a British/Italian artist based in Kent
“I enjoy exploring the amorphous potentials within an atmospheric pictorial space, where a figure might emerge from, or be subsumed by, its surroundings. I like the tension between precision and accident: botanical forms slipping into abstraction, the deliberate giving way to the unforeseen. Half-formed figures and scenic elisions evoke an instinctive logic – one which remains threaded through with enigma and glitch.”
I work across painting, performance and video and have presented work in gallery, theatre and outdoor settings internationally since 1996.
The absurd is crucial for me – adding it to a mix of dignity and elegance to disorient and reconfigure the environment. Going against the grain – never getting things quite right – but committing all the same, in the best way possible, and with the utmost conviction.