Amelia Crouch

Artist Amelia Crouch works variously in video, text, photographic imagery, drawing and painting. Across these media a frequent characteristic of her work is the combination of images and words. “I am interested in differences in how visual and verbal media address a viewer and in the importance played by representational structures in the creation of self and social identity… how does where we’re from and what we see impact upon the life narratives that we create?”

Sublime Indifference (when climate change becomes the premise of an action film…) is a large format pencil drawing showing a series of short texts that reflect the viewers’ experience of watching action films where the drama hinges around catastrophe caused by global climate change.

In mainstream film, the need for fast paced action and heroic characters contradicts the slower pace of real life climate change and neglects the importance of small, cumulative actions in abating global warming. Watching such films, the viewer occupies a passive position, marvelling at spectacular, hi tech images of destruction. This work aims to question such representations. By using drawing to render the texts, Amelia Crouch’s work re-instates a slow time frame of gradual process and a subjective (non-heroic) point of view.

Amelia Crouch is creating this new work for Margate Rocks 08.

_{Image: Stitch, 2008 (detail) © Amelia Crouch}