Distant painterly perspectives: war, atrocities and the suffering of others.

Inspired by my desire to act in some way against the injustices of atrocities, the research for my MFA set out to establish how a socially motivated painting practice can operate to activate its audience to acknowledge the suffering of others due to atrocious events. It investigates the role that the mediated imagery of photojournalism and other sources, play in our encounter, as distant spectators, with the suffering of others.

The full exegesis is available to read here.