Karen Tronel

“There was an urgency to making some of the work in this exhibition; a need to bring some sense of order and organisation to a chaotic, ominous, changing, and uncontrollable time through automatic or repetitive process, a defined rhythm, an exploration of pattern and a concentrated focus on materials and their perceived value.

Doodles were drawn on every available space in an old lined notebook (the only paper immediately to hand in early 2020), habitually discarded materials were preciously collected and preserved with a view to using them in creative endeavours to be later defined, found objects and leftover materials from previous works were saved and transformed into works in their own right and the remains of old ideas were reinvigorated and given a new lease of life in the new ensuing context.”

Karen Tronel, 2023