Acrylic on canvas

77cm x 61cm

2023

Acrylic on giclee print (digital media) on canvas

50cm x 30cm

2023

Acrylic on giclee print (digital media) on canvas

70cm x 50cm

2023

Acrylic on canvas

120cm x 100cm

2022

Acrylic on canvas

100cm x 120cm

120cm x 100cm 

Acrylic on canvas

102cm x 76cm

Acrylic on canvas

102cm x 76cm

Acrylic on canvas

In this work, the artist has appropriated Guido Reni’s ‘Assumption of the Virgin Mary’. This painting also contains elements of Francis Bacon’s ‘Study after Velásquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X’. Bacon’s association with Nietzsche and in particular the statement ‘God is Dead’ relates to the loss of meaning in religion and mythology. Appropriating and digitally distorting religious artwork intended for a different setting and context represents this loss through impact of technology.  A white dove lies hidden in the white robes symbolising the loss of peace and the activation of the archetype of the apocalypse. 

120cm x 100cm 

Acrylic on canvas

'The Last Judgement' represents a portal, a doorway to another reality, another world of which we are vaguely aware but cannot comprehend, a glimpse of something indefinable. Tiepolo’s painting, ‘The Last Judgement' is manipulated, fragmented, distorted and reimagined in digital media and reinterpreted onto the canvas. This new reality sits in a void representing the unknown, as vertical lines lead up and out of the picture plane to an incomprehensible infinity. Judgement is represented in this painting as the 2nd phase of the archetype of the apocalypse. The artist expresses her fears, anxieties and sense of loss through her process of appropriating historical religious art and her representations of the sublime.

102cm x 76cm

Acrylic on canvas

120cm x 100cm

Acrylic on canvas 

Nietzsche expressed the impact of the enlightenment on religion, especially the Christian faith when he famously stated, ‘God is Dead’.

In this work, Briggs considers that there is a basic human need for myth and that similar to the impact of the enlightenment the technological revolution has created a void and confusion with a lack of structure previously provided by religion. Romanticism developed as a reaction to the enlightenment and responded to Edmund Burke’s philosophical enquiry into the Sublime. The artist addresses these concepts that relate to Carl Jung’s, ‘The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious’. 

The artist recognises and expresses this need for myth both individually and collectively. Her first encounters with art related to her belief system developed during her childhood. The process of appropriating from historical art, Paolo de Matteis’, ‘Triumph of the Immaculate’ and layering with a photographic image of her contemporary environment expresses her desire to integrate nostalgic recollections with the changing reality of the present. A sense of magic is reinstated through an investigation and appreciation of the sublime by examining that which is limitless and beyond understanding.  

80cm x 160cm

Acrylic on canvas 

Appropriating from the 18th-century artist, Alexander Nasmyth’s romantic landscape, the artist distorts and fragments the original image ‘A View of Tantillon Castle’, firstly into digital media which is then transposed into a physical painting on a linen canvas. Her objectives in this artwork are similar to those of Romantic artists. The Romantics were opposed to the industrial revolution and perceived it as an unhealthy move away from nature. The artist perceives, that the technological revolution has changed the environment and impacted society to such a degree that humanity is endangered. This painting expresses the upheaval and turmoil experienced both individually and collectively. The process of changing a historical image into digital media symbolises the impact of technology on the natural environment and presents a new and frightening reality.

This diptych should ideally be hung in a corner at a 90-degree angle, giving the impression of a pull towards the centre, increasing the sense of distortion and disorientation.

102cm x 76cm

Acrylic on canvas

In this work, the artist follows her process of creating a digital work appropriated from historical art and reinterpreting the digital image into a physical painting. This process represents the fluidity of reality and the impact of technology on the environment and the psyche, perceived as an individual and collective activation of the archetype of the apocalypse. Fragments that symbolise nostalgia and a romantic past each contain a world and reality of their own. A lone figure negotiates a path and seeks escape from instability, anxiety, disassociation and fear. An indefinable experience is expressed as an aspect of the sublime enhanced by the artist’s response to Schubert’s ‘Serenade’. There is a sense of rhythm and harmony that mysteriously relates to the music.

Digital media

Digital media

Digital media

Digital media

Digital media

Digital media

Digital media

Digital media

Digital media

Digital media

Digital media