Gillian Goodridge - You can do it with plastics

The following is part of the response to the You can do it with plastics request by AUB staff and students.

Gillian Goodridge - BA (Hons) Fine Art, part time year 4

No Title, 2010 – 2011, Oil on plastic (Knorr Stock Pots)

Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary, Amedee Ozenfant

My inspiration: everyday life.  My passion: art.

I question the traditional distinction between the realms of art and everyday life by blurring the boundary between these realms through the re-presentation of readymades, assisted readymades and everyday, commonplace experiences. 

I transform everyday objects by applying simple interventions in form and/or presentation, changing their status from commonplace objects to art objects.  By shifting the context in which the viewer encounters these objects, I aim to turn the previously banal into the exceptional and unexpected.

Underside No Title, 2010 – 2011, Oil on plastic (Knorr Stock Pots)

Detail No Title, 2010 – 2011, Oil on plastic (Knorr Stock Pots)