Fiona Long Art

End of Year Show

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I have now completed my first year at Wimbledon College of Art. It’s been an amazing year. I’ve learned alot and made lots of great friends. I’ve been thinking in a whole new way, exploring psychoanalysis and it’s relation to how we experience our environments based on our childhood reactions to them. It’s been a bit of a voyage of self discovery as well as art discovery.

I’m pleased to have achieved a 1st this year. The tutors loved the originality of my work and my Facebook group Under Sink Cupboards which has become a part of the work really. It’s amused me no end and I love the fact that so many people have shared the joke with me.


Under Sink Cupboards:
What’s the most intimate space in your home? I bet you’d be happy to show people your master bedroom whilst giving them a tour of your home, but would you ever show them your under sink cupboard? Dark and tight with twisting pipes and hidden odds and ends.

Did you ever make dens as a child or hide in cupboards with torches? I am looking at this childhood excitement with exploration and hiding and how this psychoanalytically could cause a kind of claustrophilia or a desire to be absorbed. Could the interlocking pipes be an orgiastic representation? There is certainly something rather seductive about them to me.