Abby Prior

Abby Prior

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Degree: BA Fine Art
University: Leeds Arts University
Graduation Year: 2024

New Blood Art Commentary

Abby Prior's work bridges traditional painting and digital aesthetics, exploring the relationship between technology and human perception in the post-digital age. Her project "The Systems Within" offers a visual interpretation of digital connectivity and information transmission.

Inspired by Abstract Art, Op Art, and Constructivism, Priory creates dynamic geometric compositions using vibrant colors and grid-like formations. She translates her iterative digital process of editing, distorting, and layering colored pixels into tangible paintings, addressing the tension between digital precision and human imperfection.

"The Systems Within" reveals invisible networks governing our daily lives, visualising technological systems through abstract geometric forms. Prior's use of static lines and expansive compositions suggests an infinite flow of information, evoking the limitless nature of digital connectivity.

By merging theories of Digital and Post-Digital Art with traditional painting, Priory creates a unique visual language that speaks to our contemporary experience. Her work questions how technology has altered our perception of time and space while offering a critical response to mass media consumption.

Prior's paintings stand as a testament to human creativity in the digital age, exploring the profound impact of technology on our lives and perceptions.

Artist Statement

I am a painter interested in digital aesthetics and geometric abstraction, where scale, shape, and surface combine to devise the interplay of shape, pattern, and spatial relations. Inspired by this discourse, I create dynamic geometric compositions that utilize colour. Drawing inspiration from earlier contemporary artists within the Abstract Art, Op Art, and Constructivist movements, I have united them with theories and concepts of Digital Art, Post-Digital Art, and telecommunications to inform my work.

Over the years, I have used my paintings as outcomes from the exploration of the relationship between the digital and the human in the post-digital age, examining how technology has manipulated our sense of perception and time amidst the constant stream of mass media consumption and distribution. I use an iterative digital process of editing, distorting, layering, and reorganising coloured pixels to create my compositions, which are then translated into paintings. These paintings serve as a response to the adverse effects that technology has on both the human fingerprint and perception of time and space. This prompts me to reclaim the significance of human decision and creation and embrace the imperfections implicit in painting, in an age of increasing digital dominance.

 

Group Exhibitions

(2024) Colour, Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield

(2024) In Fine Fettle, Graduate Degree Exhibition, Leeds Arts University

(2023) convergences, Sunny Bank Mills, Leeds