Lynn Cox United Kingdom

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As a blind artist who has lost her sight slowly over 30 years, I’m interested in how much of seeing is through the eyes compared to perceptions, sensations, memories and intuition. I essentially draw lines to investigate this relationship between visual and other ways of appreciating the world. So, my creations can be drawings, complicated interwoven wire sculptures, or even audio and video.

My artwork stimulates all of the senses and isn’t limited to sight alone; often it incorporates two or three sensual effects within one artwork layering the complexity.

My visual impairment has informed the work. As my sight has slowly deteriorated to nothing, I’ve learnt to gauge a room size by its echo/reverb, associate smells with locations and people, etc. Enriching the visual world with memory associations.

I’ve also always been interested in how we see and what we see, whether it is real, memory, longing, suggested to us, etc. I love the visual play with some drawings and seeing one image or another but never both within the visual puzzles – how can that be done through sculpture too?

My wire sculptures are meant to be slightly confusing when seen purely on a visual level, but when touch is added to them some of the ambiguity is resolved – but some still remains as I wouldn’t want to give you the whole concrete image. I like to play about with this visual narration, adding the senses to help clarify and enhance the artworks.

I’m also becoming interested in Psychohistory, which is my own term to represent the historical/memory similarities/ connections which create a psychological ambience. These notions come from my career as a Psychogeographer (using psychological sensations) to work with landscapes, now I want to go into an additional dimension of time too.