ARTIST STATEMENT

I am interested in capturing a sense of shifting time and space in my work. I want it to not quite inhabit the known world but be more like a dreaming space where meaningful and whimsical fragments of the day happen to have washed up. In this space, elements melt into one another - feelings into ice-cream, sea markers into volcanoes, London Underground tiles into lochs, colourful plastic wrappers, and road signs into a mill-pond-like sea.

I keep returning to waves in my work. Not just sea waves but waves as a metaphor for building tension. I see these building tensions everywhere, in the state of the world, in people around me, in my own head, and in the mundanity of day-to-day life. Thinking about a rising tide in a literal and metaphorical sense. I like to imagine what is going on under the surface of the paintings, in the same way that sometimes the most interesting things in life are what is left unsaid.

Most of my practice is painting, as the joy and liquidity of this medium allow me to explore my imagined world whilst creating it. Sometimes, however, a work lands more solidly in my brain that demands to be sculpted or videoed. Like my diverse inspirations, there is no hierarchy of mediums here, but more a utilising of different senses to explore my thought process.

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Sinclair seeks out diverse experiences in order to understand the societal impact on nature and individual human existence. Past residencies include two ESKFF residencies at Mana Contemporary, USA, onboard a boat trawling for micro-plastics around the British coast, in human dissection laboratories, and at the Millennium Seed Bank where she collaborated with Kew scientists and made a large light installation. She has received funding from the Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation (residency in New York), the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Ventnor Botanic Gardens, and the British Council, and have received four awards from Arts Council England. She has exhibited widely in the UK including at the National Portrait Gallery, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, the Royal Academy of Art, the Laing Gallery, and The Koppel Project as well as in China, Germany, the USA, Greece, and France. Alongside her practice as an artist, she has also curated various exhibitions including at the Window Gallery, Brighton, and The Koppel Project.