My work focuses on the junctures of nature/culture, city/country as well as my own position with regard to them. Currently I am exploring these notions under the umbrella of the genre of 'landscape' which itself already implies a juxtaposition of the natural and the cultural.
Travelling has always been a passion of mine and I use my movement through the world as the basis of my art practice. This interest has led me to explore the use of paths and roads in the landscape and where they can lead me both physically and psychologically. On the Road is an ongoing series of work in painting, video and photography that was initially a response to the repetitiveness of motorway travel and how the passing landscape is viewed from transport and references road movies and panoramic photography. Like Friedrich’s lone figure experiencing the sublime the lone driver in road movies has entered our consciousness as a landscape convention.
The works in On the Road depict space, tedium and the passing of time while commenting on spaces ‘in between’ (or non-spaces) that allow me to reflect on the changing landscape, where I am in relation to this and where the boundaries lie between city/country, nature/culture. I slow down an insignificant moment in time by painting a snapshot view in great detail which contradicts the banality of the of the subject matter and gives the work a paradoxical edge. For recent work please visit my website www.lizbailey.org.uk.
