Sally Weatherill

Working in print and paint, Sally Weatherill uses the palimpsest and the inevitable variation within manual repetition to explore the themes of transience, time and memory. Although the specific materials and processes she employs vary between printmaking and painting, Sally creates both types of work over an extended period of time using repeated processes which fall into two opposing categories - constructive and destructive. These categories can be seen as symbolic of the tension between the man-made and the natural, the conscious and unconscious, the structured and unpredictable. In printmaking Sally is currently focusing on etching and builds the plate by creating and then obliterating images. The end result is not planned and emerges slowly and meditatively, the result of many small decisions and the process itself. The repeated processes are evidenced in the finished works, capturing time both durationally and instantaneously.