Janet Waring Rago
Janet Waring Rago
Where the Shape of Things Gives Way to Flow, 2019
Oil on aluminium (Dibond)
62 x 61 cm
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About this Work
Waring Rago’s practice takes shape from poetry, nature and existential ideas of the self in a vast universe. She has always been struck by how giving shape to paint is a continuous stream that flows towards its eventual resolution in the finished work. In this smaller painting, she was investigating how one's relationship with a painting changes with scale. While her initial ideas remain essentially unaltered, her relationship to the work varies depending on its size. Viewing distance, field of view, physical presence… all of these impact the act of viewing a painting, affecting the way we feel and relate to it.
About Janet Waring Rago
Janet Waring Rago’s practice centres around the act of painting, embodying material with a synthesis which is the result of a long evolution encompassing poetry, nature and existential ideas of the self in a vast universe (in the face of the blank ‘canvas’). During her MA she developed a methodology that unveils the time-based narrative of a painting’s making hidden beneath the final layer, evidencing the ebb and flow that erodes the material’s resistance against the shaping of the work. Capturing successive phases, she creates a visual poetic document of the interior mind of a painting unveiling the rhythm and fluctuations of a continually adaptive transformation.
Education
2019 MA Visual Arts Fine Art Digital - Distinction
1983-1991 Painting, private studies in Florence, Italy
1981 PGCE Education (Science), University of Leicester
1980 Botany BSc (Hons), University of Manchester
Awards & Prizes
2019
Alumni Prize, Camberwell UAL
Graduate Art Prize Show (shortlisted) Herbert Smith Freehills, London
Exhibitions
2019
MA Summer Show, Camberwell, University of the Arts London
Select Show (juried) Camberwell Space Gallery, UAL
2018
Hybrids; Two Girls Gallery
University of the Arts London, Students Union
2017
Artist Talk; AS PAINTING IS TO POETRY, Usher Gallery, Lincoln
Painting; CONTINENT OF UNFOLDING HORIZONS featured for THE NEW WEATHERS; Summer Writing Programme at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Naropa University, Colorado USA
2016
Solo Show - REGENERATIVE, Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery
Poetry and Visual Art Collaboration with Thai-American poet Nicholas Gulig, published online at LIKESTARLINGS