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.

To view more work by Miranda Whall, visit www.stills.org/residents/mirandawhall