Gabrielle Cook
About
Misery, Malice & Spite attempts to convey the limited worldly perception caused by bodily pain, placing the written voice within the confines of the domestic space. Piecing together the verbal gesture and the relationship of the body in space, the presented series of paintings aims to reflect the compartmentalisation of traumatic memory. The use of panels, stitched and stuck together, attempts to convey the destruction of bodily, self, and worldly perception which occurs during the event of bodily pain. The body of work aims to shift the private experience of pain into the public sphere of the art gallery.
Bio
Gabrielle Cook is an Honours student working in text-based painting. Her work concerns the experience of bodily pain and the translation of this into a painted surface. Examining the abstraction of language that occurs during the event of bodily pain, Gabrielle’s work aims to depict and reframe traumatic memory through the textual image.