I have recently completed a masters of fine art at City and Guilds of London Art School. Within the work, the dual processes of deconstruction and reconstruction interest me, specifically in how surfaces such as paper can be taken apart and reassembled through their cutting and rearrangement.

In this new body of work for example, I aim to establish an uncanny harmony between the destructive technique of cutting and the often delicate outcomes which emerge. I have noticed that an interesting transformation takes place when something 3-dimensional is covered in a semi-translucent material, instantly making it appear flat and image-like. There is a sense of illusion here, as the image is not what it first appears to be. As the veiled object makes contact with its Perspex skin, light is allowed to pass between the two and the folds and incisions are illuminated as if from within. A visual language plays itself out from underneath creating what is perhaps best described as a ‘surface tension’.

The work’s complex processes of making emerges out of concerns that are not simply formal. The work operates between states of illusion and fact, and is in some ways an attempt to encourage the viewer to question how surface appearances and underlying structures are always intertwined and inseparable. I want to slow down the dual processes of looking and thinking and through the mingling of illusion and materiality bring out an actuality of the thing itself.

This conceptual and creative process is the running theme throughout the work on show here. In all the pieces, a cutting action creates voids and portals to spaces beyond, and I aim to draw attention to what exists above and below the surface and to allow the viewer to perceive the otherwise invisible. 

Exhibitions

2016 – Zoë Hoare at 2 Soho Square (ongoing exhibition)

2015 – Zoë Hoare and Alex Hollinshead at Brixton East 1871

2015 – 'From the Studio Floor' - Anise Gallery, Bermondsey 

2014 – Zoë Hoare at Muse Gallery – 269 Portobello Road

2014 – Artonomy Exhibition, Belgrave Music Hall, Leeds

2014 – Keep Hush presents 'Hidden' - 6 Hyde Park Gardens

2014 – BA City and Guilds Summer Exhibition – 124           Kennington Park Road

2013 – Zoë Hoare at Lisa’s – 305 Portobello Road

2013 – BA ‘In the Making’ – The Rag Factory, 16-18 Heneage Street

2012 –  BA +44 Exhibition – City and Guilds of Art School London