Jill Pemberton’s drawings, paintings and sculptures are rooted in the exploration of the functional object and its conceptual and emotional ‘footprint’.

After 30 years of practice which has mainly been involved with exploring the ways the temporal concept of the canvas space can be filled with colour and texture, this work moves towards a post- abstract figuration where a recognisable form emerges from.

The recent ‘chair’ shows  celebrate both the aesthetic considerations of the designers of chairs – the lines and shapes simplified through swift marks in paint –and the idea of ‘chair’ in isolation with all the cerebral connections instinctively made when abstracting it from its comfortable natural environment.

This was an eclectic and moving engagement with the most simple and complex of icons.

 It is through the learned skills in handling and developing a familiarity with the properties of the media and through the analysis of time, flow and surface which enable the simple statements made by these images to be so powerful.

The sculptures built with cast-off plastic detritus, recycled toys, ‘freebies’ and hoarded ‘treasures’ reflect the throw- away world of a contemporary western childhood and the larger manipulation of the adapted chairs often lead to  uncomfortable associations.

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centre - shadows of chairs

top right - another chair

top left - chair