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Molly Smith

MA FINE ART

 

As a painter Smith is utterly intrigued and obsessed with colour. Her explorations are developed through studio experimentation and a persistent focus on the ‘perfect gesture’. The repetitive act draws upon a history of abstract mark making and a futility involved in the search for the ‘finished’ and ‘decisive’ painterly act.

 

Within the practice the focus towards the simplistic gesture illuminates how colours interact and sit alongside each other. The aesthetics of a gesture and the resulting colour relationships invite a reading that deals purely with the mechanics of painting.

 

Within the recent works Smith has found a deep obsession for the colour blue. Derived from a period of addressing her working practice to date, she found that all of the work she had produced over a two-year period feature the colour in some form. Like the search for the perfect gesture, the compulsion to retain blue, and the artist’s inability to free herself from it, speaks of the obsessive nature of art making and studio practice.