Molly Thompson

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My work explores preservation as a tool for recalling lived narratives in conceptual forms, connecting sound, film, and sculptures. By creating ambiguous narratives around personal experiences, I observe the synchronicities with memories being fiction and/or phantoms. I am drawn to the past as an uncanny feeling, relying on found materiality as a pillar of storytelling which all seem arbitrary. The works are preserved as something beautifully tragic.

 My artist practice is made from found materials discarded in a council estate where I grew up and or sourced second-hand to mimic the landscape/ my own experiences. My lived experience as a working-class artist is displayed as a preservation tool for the landscape of my ‘home’, as a marking of curtal significance to the areas for the worst and/or the best, using the idea of forced agendas not reflective of communities/society. The objects are a material upbringing of an English working-class area based on the unlucky experience due to landscape capacity and people's ignorance and drawn to the past to tell the landscape through its grit and unpolished attitude.

Relying on found materiality as a pillar of storytelling to make light of being working class in Britain today and of the past. The landscape and experience I reference a lot is about growing up outside of Dudley, studying art in London made me want to capture the grit of being a working-class artist. Returning to Dudley has been a muse, placing the outside into contemporary sculptural forms containing video and sounds, questing the environment I was born into. Making the tragic, beautiful, and true reflection of what’s real memory and what is fiction