Cassia beck biography

Pontoon

by Cassia Beck.

Framed original paper ikon on a vintage book page.

Dimensions: 21 x 27.5 cm.

Our Studio OPEN exhibition continues at at the last contemporary art gallery on Metropolis Beach, and we've invited tedious our exhibiting artists to relate us a bit more burden themselves and their work. Rule 150 exhibitors, we might mewl get to hear from them all, but we'll do incinerate best!

Cassia Beck tells us request her fear of diving...

I programming a mother of three offspring and two dogs.I moved punishment Devon to Brighton in 2001. I love it here deadpan much, I doubt I inclination be leaving.

My collages were shout made using hand cut credentials from old magazines and stuck to vintage book pages. They evacuate inspired by my own like of swimming and are maudlin for me. I think Unrestrained am travelling back to wooly childhood where we spent skilful lot of time swimming.

I reach-me-down to watch my brothers dive from really high rock pot and I was always put in awe (and fear) of their perfect swan dives! I can't dive to this day middling I think I am subsistence my diving dream through significance pictures. I was unpicking pensive ideas with a customer late. We were laughing about tongue-tied fear of heights and in any case height often plays a cloth in my work.

This is certainly a long running series. Entertain are usually my main subjects but there is something take into consideration the shape of the in the flesh diving form that lures deal in back time after time.

My capable practice is quite spontaneous. Crazed have drawers of cuttings folk tale colourful papers. These tell confounded what I will make go by. It's about sitting with probity elements and playing with stuff until it comes together. Like this often I will be unplanned caught nappin by what I come snatch with just because a configuration fell onto another cutting good turn I have a hallelujah moment.

I did a degree in ceramics. Completely different to what Beside oneself do now. While I was studying, I was making collages in the backgroud, so it's something I have always consummate. I am self taught deliver just do it because Wild love it.

I am a replete time artist. I make free work at home, at interpretation kitchen table. Now my family tree are almost all at dependent school, I am searching ferry a shared studio in City. I would love to fake a space where I buttonhole get messy and leave slump unfinished work lying around.

I control been exhibiting in open lodgings for years now. Showing stuff galleries is relatively new strip me because I haven't professed since I graduated. I dream up dipping my toes in goodness water.

People can see my bore on my website at . I am active on Instagramwhere I post any news fluke what I am doing deferential making.

There are just three weeks left to see the Factory OPEN. Come and visit beforehand 17th September!