“Painting is fundamental to my practice and I have found it to be very similar to music. I use both to create a spiritual space that can be shared, as well as experienced individually. I believe all painting is abstract, even if it holds universally recognisable signs or images. Both painting and sound are not defined by signs or images - they are simply used to create energy between them. For this reason I don’t begin with an intellectually imposed meaning, statement, or declaration upon the artwork. I don’t think art has a meaning. I believe artworks are sacred beings and holders of energy - physical energy which simply comes down to physics. I’m very interested in physical science and I believe the properties and laws we come across in our physical world also apply to art. So I begin with an empty space, and continue working until I discover a new space that can be perceived from multiple viewpoints. A work is not finished until it is a credible space with objective dimensions that can stand on their own. At this point the art work becomes a living entity.”
Edy Ferguson is based in London and makes both abstract painting and conceptually-driven work which considers the slippages between memory, language, images, symbols and belief. Her projects consider how our sense of truth and reality is affected by the velocity of fractured narratives in evolving forms of propaganda, the theatrics of conflict, and the staged presentation of credibility. She uses interdisciplinary strategies, such as appropriation, collage/de-collage, painting, video, and performance as interventions into documentary modes of display, public address, broadcast, and reception. She transforms archival and forensic systems into supports for poetic gestures. Her work often foregrounds the labor of looking in the searching and sorting of images, finding pattern and meaning in the noise of hyper-information.