Paula MacGregor
Mixed Media Artist in:
Assemblage & BookWorks
'By placing everyday objects out of place
new aesthetics occur and
new realms are entered'
Looking at Museology, especially in collections such as the historical Cabinets of Curiosity
and the Spirit Collection in the Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum in London,
I create meaningful art work containing a range of collected artefacts, both found and contrived.
Each has its own narrative, which is open to the interaction and interpretation of the viewer.
I explore various ways to use archiving, classification and association in my art work,
as well as looking at the areas where art and science meet.
A recent article in the New York Times
referred to this way of working as:
‘the new crossover art'
I have been a compulsive collector since I was a small child, I now use some of these collections in my art work ...
