Miranda Whall

Miranda's work creates a unique context to represent a relationship between femininity, nature and the wider external environment. Self portraits preoccupied and absorbed in bodily functions and pleasures are placed alongside drawings of things such as birds, farm machinery and transport etc. to form seemingly indiscriminate non hierarchical scenarios creating unlikely and intimate fantasies. The work has recently evolved through a series of intricate, linear digital drawings that mimic lace patterns.

With the Research and Training Awards, Miranda is developing a new drawing that is made in Flash and exists as a web based Flash animation. Enlarged details of a linear lace like drawing are activated and revealed as if appearing from nowhere as the viewer guides the curser over and across an initially white, blank data projected image. Each single image is a button so that when activated it is animated alongside corresponding previously recorded sounds of the nightingale, tractor, bee, pissing woman etc. The images will lift themselves momentarily into action and then return to their fixed but visible status as the viewer moves on. The intention is to give the viewer an intimate and self directed experience of
the drawing.

'softly softly'