Jayne Stansfeld
MA Fine Art
My MA in Fine Art at Norwich has been an time of intense activity and progression. The opportunity to work in robust materials, has changed the scale and scope of my work, making garden sculpture and installations. I’ve had a passion for creating with recycled and foraged materials, such as cardboard and textiles, since I was very young.
Focus on environmental issues flows from this and has evolved through research, about aesthetics of everyday things and how bird watchers experience nature. We cannot help but be affected by the way the world is changing and current work reflects concerns about birds and other wildlife at risk.
Since graduating in ceramics in 1980s it has been an important part to my practice and teaching to consider active participation. Originally in a hands-on sense through working in communities, or children and young people in creative, playful adventurous ways.
Increasingly how people might encounter my work as a catalyst for communication about shared experience having its own language beyond borders, seems important. It might be as simple making work to be seen or encountered where art is unexpected, in a street, on a beach or in a wood, or interaction with kinetic sculpture and shadows, or ice-breaking humour.
