Marina Collard is a British/Italian artist based in Kent working across painting, performance and video. She has presented work in gallery, theatre and outdoor settings internationally since 1996.
“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.”
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.