Amber Imrie‘s art investigates the connection between humans and objects – the way we attribute significant memories and events onto materials. She find this objectification significant to our storytelling and memories, and affects the way we navigate through our environment.
Throughout Imrie’s work she use or make objects to stand-in for these stories, people, and places. Often constructed off of memories, they become warped through time and by imperfection, taking on a sense of the poetics. Many of Imrie’s pieces are rooted in her personal narrative, whilst lending themselves to the wider audiences through our shared life experiences.
Microscope Slide Series Statement:
“As a painter and multi-media sculptor I have felt the pressure to reduce my mediums. I felt the pressure to give up painting, despite enjoying the practice. In spring of 2013, I displayed the evidence of my painting instead of the thing itself. I documented eyewitness accounts, bagged paint-soiled rags in evidence bags, and collected slides of my paint . I took samples of the pigments I had used in my oil paintings and put them under the microscope, playing with the translation of micro/macro and materials.
I was particularly intrigued with the experience of looking through the microscope at the paint microscope slides. I decided to blow these up, painting in a sculptural medium by using embroidery and layered materials to replicate what I saw in the microscope.”