Michelle Hunter-Gray is a young artist in the final year of a four year fine art degree studying at Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent. In her own words...
"I have come late to this strange world of 'fine art'. I was in my twenties before I visited an art gallery, in my forties before I came face to face with anything that could be called modern or contemporary. I am still impressed and awed by my colleagues. Overwhelmed by visits to exhibitions. Childishly delighted with my own creativity when some thing works. Childishly crushed when it does not.
I am deeply interested in ideas around memory and identity. I constantly mine my own memories and experiences for my work. Not because I am self obsessed, not because I think that there is any thing special about my life, but precisely because there is nothing special. I am ordinary. My life is and has been ordinary. Western civilisation makes a god of individualism and yet the more choices we are offered, the more similar we become. I am a story teller. And the stories I tell belong to everyone." |
