Larain Briggs
ABOUT
Larain Briggs' work is introspective, self-reflective, and recursive. Her creative process involves revisiting and reinterpreting previous works, layering and interweaving images and meanings while transitioning between two-dimensional, three-dimensional, digital, and virtual worlds. Through analysis of symbols that emerge in her work, she establishes a dialogue with the unconscious, facilitating individuation (development of the Self) and informing her creative practice and research.
Her research is grounded in psychoanalytical theory, focusing on Carl Jung's concepts of archetypes, the collective unconscious, synchronicity and alchemy.
Briggs is pursuing a professional doctorate in Fine Art at the University of East London, focusing on transformation of the self through art practice and engagement.
Born in 1960, she resides on the East Coast of the UK. In 1990, she completed a BA(Hons) in Fine Arts, specialising in painting, at Camberwell UAL. She has exhibited her work in the UK and internationally. Her practice has been enriched by further studies in Computer-Aided Visualization, Art Education (PGCE), Psychology, Analytical Psychology, and Art Therapy.
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In this work the artist has appropriated from and manipulated the Sebastian Ricci painting, ‘The Resurrection’ (1716). The artist’s process of distorting religious and familiar historical art symbolises the impact of the enlightenment, the response of romanticism and the sublime and recently the technological digital revolution and the contemporary sublime. The stages of the archetype of the apocalypse, judgement, revelation, punishment and rebirth are represented in this work. The fragmented and fractured Baroque religious painting is a metaphor for the artist’s encounter with the archetype of the apocalypse where reality shifts and past beliefs are necessarily reframed. The content and subject matter of the original painting are relevant to the artist’s expression of this existential experience, also perceived as a collective event.
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Complex issues of time and space are considered in this work addressing the concept of the limitless and unfathomable sublime. The same figure is placed in two locations, facing opposing directions, intimating the quantum physics theory of an atom existing in two places at once, questioning reality and the existence of the incomprehensible. The impact of the past and present are depicted by the process of appropriating from previous work that was originally an appropriation from historical art. Paradoxical repercussions and reverberations are a theme that resurfaces frequently in Brigg’s process and is apparent in this digital piece. Layers from previous digital manipulations and physical interpretations of ‘The Last Judgement’ and ‘Serenade’ indicate a convergence of the archetype of the apocalypse and the impact of the digital technological revolution. The desire to escape from the instability and confusion of the environment is expressed and illustrated in the abient running figure.
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