Janet Allsebrook
I completed the MA Printmaking course at Bradford College in 2007
I am an artist producing prints, photographs, artist books and jewellery.
Much of my material comes from close observation of my house and garden. I use images of the garden because it is a microcosm of the natural and international struggle. Death, rotting, re-growth, the battles between plant and pest, the seasons and weather, light and shade, hard edges and wild planting, are all visually exciting and infinitely variable. My existential discourse is about life and death.
The dangerous wildness of nature and man’s desire to overcome and control is evident in the garden, in scientific developments and in religious thought. In contemporary ecology and some post modern writing there is a reversed situation, where human action is bad and nature is good. Politics meets gardening!
In practical terms dissent and opposition are characterized by the positioning of visual elements like texture and colour, text and image. For example, by showing the meeting point of plants and concrete, or by images of shadows cast across forms and surfaces. I like shadow because of its apparent hardness, but also because of its temporality. I also like it because it is inconclusive, mysterious and unresolved.
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