Tori Beeche

     This body of work utilises the technical ideas of Expressionism, of forming an image through a painterly process. Using the traditional compositional conventions of portraiture; a framework that links both “seventeenth century portrait painting and those eponymous snapshots that record friends, family or associates”.

     Drawing on these conventions seeks to reference both personal and shared histories capturing notions of fashion and style that refer to another time. The re-presentation of old photographs through painting offers a means to explore notions of  ‘restorative’ and ‘reflective nostalgia’.

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