September 17 - 30, 2023

“Dissonant Lines” by Lee Campbell

Above images from “Dissonant Lines"

Tell us about the artwork. What makes it unique?

“Dissonant Lines shows where lines and imagery come together and clash producing a creative disruption that leads to new images and lines being produced, borders dissolving and then reappearing. Clashing lines create new possibilities for redefinition. The viewer gets to see the drawn pages being turned over, sparking intrigue as to what is over the page, underneath the page and on the flipside to the page being turned. This film employs digital green screen to create fleshy layers seeping underneath and being revealed, and other sets of imagery coming through. The lines that you can see were made in the physical world using marker pens and paper. The resulting line drawings were then documented and filmed where the camera moved across the drawn paper. Now existing digitally, the drawings were then layered over one another and green screen processes were applied to create arresting tensions between the lines.”

Tell us about yourself. How did you come to be an artist in video/digital media?

“I trained in painting and completed my MFA in Painting at Slade School of Fine Art, University College London in 2007. My current practice questions what may it mean to remediate, excavate and bring back to life a personal archive of paintings and drawings over the span of 25 years through the medium of digital art and moving image.”