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Cheyane Morgan-Barnes
Fine Art BA (Hons)

Chelsea College of Arts UAL

Specialisms: Painting / Drawing / Fine Art

Location: London, United Kingdom

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Chelsea College of Arts UAL

Cheyane Morgan-Barnes

Cheyane Morgan-Barnes ArtsThread Profile

First Name: Cheyane

Last Name: Morgan-Barnes

Specialisms: Painting / Drawing / Fine Art

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My Location: London, United Kingdom

University / College: Chelsea College of Arts UAL

Course / Program Title: Fine Art BA (Hons)

About

I create art work derived from psychological and anthropological concepts as a therapeutic tool to understand the emotional world within us. Although my art is fluid in utilising mixed media, my practice has a core in painting and drawing.

In anthropology, the liminal space comes from the disconnection that develops in the middle of a transformation. This space is something we often do not realize we are in but do know that we feel deeply disconnected, disorientated and overwhelmed with the world around us as the liminal space engulfs us, causing one to become dissociative, disconnected and fragile within liminality. I wanted to explore the liminal space from an emotive aspect describing the in-between through phosphene structures and contrasting palettes and mimicking the repetitive contradictory forces of destruction and creation that occur within liminality. This is represented through the dilution of acrylic paint and the repetitive nature of wiping and adding paint to paper and canvas. With desperate acts of scratching, grazing and ripping paper, we can feel the desperation and anticipation of exiting and entering the liminal space.