Land
scape
Special Edition
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
where I first began to hone my internal critical voice. I see this critical voice as a positive part of my process and very necessary in developing my work beyond where it is to where it can be. Currently studying for a Masters in Fine Art, my formal study continues to support and encourage me to question, take risks and go towards unknown places in my work. Running parallel with my art practice is my work in Special Education. At times these strata seem quite separate, at other times they seem to move closer together. In relation to my current artistic research, perhaps my work in Special Education accounts for my multi-sensory approach to landscape and recurring materiality. On some level, consciously or otherwise, all experiences come to bear on making. The body of works that we have selected for this special edition of LandEscape are centered on the exploration of your relationship to the landscape. Highligting the sense of connection with the land and its socio political history, your works have at once captured our attention for the way they remind us of the notion of non lieu elaborated by French anthropologist Marc Augè, for the way it expresses the resonance between the subconscious mind and its surroundings: when walking our readers through your usual setup and process, would you tell us how do you
Elaine Crowe, 2016, Island Bound
usually develop your initial ideas? Elaine Crowe: My development of ideas is always very organic, often making it difficult to know where ideas really begin, especially in relation to the landscape