Biografia
Alison Kennedy is interested in how traditional ideas of painting and being can be questioned. She critiques the grand view of Romantic narrative paintings – to explore how a contemporary woman artist approaches these concepts.
One way that painting can do this is through using new forms and materials in experimental ways to express the bodily experience of being – hence the title “Paintings without Heads.” Paintings have a spatial dimension as well as a conceptual, analytic one.
Kennedy draws on her reading of Heidegger’s Being and Time which considers the questions of being as action-in-the-world driven by the unconscious more than conscious intent. What do we do when we paint? Do we reveal or conceal?
