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Details about Artwork:
Mixed-media of oil, pigment, pen and collage on canvas

About the Artist:
Vanessa Mitter is a painter and a performance artist, who lives and works in London. In her paintings and performances, Vanessa Mitter is interested in interrogating the history, particularly, of expressionist painting and of the gesture. The making is very physical. The canvas is moved around, laid on the floor, then the wall, often remade or scored over, obliterated and then painted over again. Often, paintings are buried underneath other paintings. There is a narrative being referenced, but it is often hidden and autobiographical. Mitter uses layers of paint and collage, overlaid then with pen and oil stick. The making is instinctive and accident driven. This tightrope is important. The painting has its own life, and leads the way. Mitter views this as a process of alchemy; a transformative process.

About the Artwork:
According to writer Alice Butler of Frieze: ‘In Vanessa Mitter’s paintings, the personal is treated as a pliant material, a source of affect and investigation, but also of fiction and performance. There is an abject narrative at play – of childbirth, loss, fertility – but it is a narrative.. working and re-working the surface, with the addition of a swathe of fabric, a ripped sheet of paper, or an expressive gesture of paint, becomes a signifier of the passing of time.”