Jill Perkins

Artist Jill Perkins, Status White British/Female/ Heterosexual/ Working Class/ Wife /Daughter/ Sister/ Friend.

Her Art Practice uses transient space of Absence, Presence, Loss, and Memory, responding around the subjectivity of Dementia And The Domestic.

Perkins’ body of work spirals from her emotional centre, coloured by a strong awareness of life’s systems and structures, evolving around the journey alongside her Mother’s 12 year illness.

Her work is underpinned by Philosopher Gaston Bachelard, Theorist Roland Barthes, Mid 20th Century Abstract Photographers James Casebere and James Welling Film Maker Chris Marker, Artist Sophie Calle (Emotionale), along with current Contemporary Video Artist Practices, Charlotte Prodger and John Akomfrah,Richard Mosse, Renee Gladman Writer, Poet.

Her process-driven work translates a need/desire to create a language, a tangible from an intangible. Perkins investigates her emotions to express. She sensitively explores the language of surface manipulation by employing and repurposing materials sourced from the everyday domestic environment. She continues developing communication through narrational transposition.

Medias: Sculpture, Photography, Performance, Text Audio/Video Analogue/Digital to create authentic visceral photographic visuals accompanied by bespoke soundovers along with chosen appropriated or borrowed auditory musical representation, inviting her audiences’ glimpses of her interior worlds.

Perkins aims to create an intimate space for dissemination where the viewer can engage with multiple screens, enabling a personal exchange . It is in this richness the work continues to develop in Affect /Effect Research opening for feedback and collation raising greater visibility, understanding, addressing and supporting issues around Dementia and Broad Spectrum Mental Wellbeing.