Fine art solo show - Rebecca Sangster

Sangster’s understanding of herself as having an absence of cultural traditions or a belief system has come to culminate in a series of multimedia depictions of an imagined culture that the artist has created for herself. Imagery from religions and traditions alien to the artist are appropriated, and manifest as a masked figure serving as the artist’s avatar through which to explore cultural nomadism and the erosion of boundaries between cultures and places. This figure shifts between purposes, sometimes professing to have the abilities of a diviner telling people their future, whilst other times being represented frozen as an artifact of a lost civilization through sculpture, or as a new unknown god through drawing.

‘She Lost Her Native Land’ aims to seduce you into a place which is abstracted from reality and, in turn, liberated to draw references from everyone, everywhere and from every time.