Fiona Long Art

Long’s “Concrete Poetry” series is an exploration of how it feels to live in the city. These chaotic images investigate the fast-paced lives we lead both visually and almost viscerally. An archaeological approach to painting shows the contrasts of the impact that both people and nature have on the manmade structures we are surrounded by. The Eastern aesthetic of the beauty of transience is contemplated to interpret the ever-changing urban landscape. A fascination with material is coupled with areas of representation using personal street photography and collages from free London newspapers as source material.

Some paintings from my latest series. I am often intrigued by the collections of objects I encounter in the street, placed unconsciously or accidentally in what could have been a formal arrangement. If placed in a different context like a gallery, how would they be perceived differently? By painting these banal collections, I hope to highlight the way that people perceive the arrangements of objects that surround them. These collections are painted rather than literally re-displayed in order to humorously elevate them through the sheer laborious attention they've already been paid. It also questions the history of still life painting and the "found object" in sculpture.

My degree show at Wimbledon College of Art, University of the Arts London. BA Fine Art: Painting 2010 www.fionalongart.co.uk www.postapocalypticwomble.com www.wimbledondegreeshow.com

We are programmed as human beings to see faces in things and often we see unintended faces in paintings. These paintings deliberately portray things that look like faces. Pareidolia is such a subjective phenomena, it seems quite paradoxical to try to capture it in paint, which is exactly why I enjoy doing so!