Karley Feaver

Karley’s work questions humanity’s relationship to nature and its tendencies towards escapism. 

In Karley’s paintings she explores escapism in an abstract sense where colour plays an important role. Karley is interested in the dynamics between opposing elements and mixes textural backgrounds with refined and detailed images. The paintings bombard your retina with itchy and dynamic colours and the use of the colour white establishes a dream-like surreal quality, suggesting the idea of purity and safety. Birds, trees and bubbles dominate the artworks and represent the qualities of escape and imagination.

 

Through her exploration of taxidermy techniques, Karley fragments this practice introducing representations of humans, in the form of dolls and blown glass bubbles intended as symbolic abstractions of human fantasies of escape. Karley’s fantastical works serve as a visual conundrum that makes us reconsider how we use our subjective power and find an appropriate tension between imagination, horror, pleasure and respect.  Karley is exploring the idea that humans have the ability to visualise and imagine escape fantasies; however animals are thought to only live day to day, in the moment. This makes us ask the question, are animals able to imagine escape fantasies like humans?

Karley is inspired by artists such as Fiona Ray, Polly Morgan and Takashi Murakami. Like these artists, she wants people to look at her artwork and be drawn to it, stare at it and be inspired by it.