Looking back in the archive, we found this beautifully opulent painting by artist Pum Dunbar from her solo exhibition in Project Ability Gallery in 2011, The Theatre of the Self: A Play of Parts. This work was created as part of a year-long Project Ability Residency funded by Creative Scotland’s Career Development Fund.
Pum is an artist whose creative practice is driven by creative research, philosophy and informed by psychoanalysis and a comprehensive understanding of psychotherapy. This is how she describes her practice;
I believe the art making process is the product of our human organic intelligence, it is therefore both emotional and imaginative and most essentially it is communicative. Art presents us with encoded symbols, visual metaphors and forms of perceptual thinking that can evoke responses deep in the psyche. An image or object can simultaneously hold and communicate different meanings on various levels of consciousness, offering a flexible and fluid interchange of ideas, with the constant potential for movement of meanings and interpretation.
Pum Dunbar’s publication, Creative Praxis, Portraits and Dialogues from the sensory Inter/face of Autism will be launched on Thursday 25th October 2012.
