Loveday Pride, ‘Hot pants’

ARTIST STATEMENT:

It is in the immediately emotive and enticing material condition of the fairground that Loveday Pride borrows an attitude which translates itself through the shifting tonality and lo-fi material quality of the work. Interested in a paintings ability to both entertain and unsettle, Pride seeks to reduce and re-arrange objects of memory which have become inert through familiarity. Whilst the work may be conceivably ‘collagist’, the psychedelic compositions and wonder-filled landscapes exist for her within another, utterly real dimension.

BIOGRAPHY:

Loveday Pride (b. 2001, Salisbury, UK) is a painter interested in the carnivalesque, big tent happenings and spectacle. Her painting begins with thoughts of the ephemeral line, but ultimately delights in the joy of paint as a material process. Characters and landscapes emerge from encounters she might have had in life or in dreams - people in costumes and on floats in Pewsey on Carnival Night, flashes of dancers under canopies and in shop windows, lions parading through church pews dancing in village halls. Her paintings aim to hold these moments together, and for their installation to activate a collective wonder, and a loss of control.