Nadin Senft @ Broomhill
Nadin Senft
We have asked the artist to provide a statement about their work, an edited personal history, and a selection of exhibitions and commissions. The content here is entirely their words and selection. Works illustrated here have been chosen by the artist.
The works shown on this page are not necessarily on display at Broomhill.
Some other works by Nadin Senft
The Artist Speaks
“Much of my work is concerned with the abstraction of form from basic structural principles and organic origins.
“Many themes make reference to the human body and wildlife while others represent abstract concepts rooted in religion, history and the human psyche.
“I enjoy working in a variety of materials and on varying scales and am now inclined to work in the widest range of media available to me, with an increasing interest to combine these materials to add further dimensions to the work.
“Commissioned work, on whatever scale, is of particular interest as I am stimulated by the need to meet the client's wishes and keep within a budget, while retaining my own artistic integrity.”
Review
“Nadin Senft's purpose is to communicate basic human values in a visual vocabulary that opens up the understanding of a frenetic and technological age. In effect, this is achieved by the elements of her work being, in their several parts, structures based upon architectural study of the human form. The realisation that this is so is a matter of immediate apprehension, not of analysis. This is an instantaneous aesthetic perception, a response to a clean-lined and harmonious whole...
“This immediate response is invited, indeed compelled, to something very like an act of contemplation. The eye ceases to be passive, comes under the control of thought which is quite disconcertingly entered into a world that does not belong to this or any other century - an ageless world or organic, not mechanical force...
“If one continues to look and to permits ones mind to find its own insight, another deeper layer is uncovered, a sense of man's alienation from his natural environment and his own self. In any event, everyone, in varying degrees, must become aware of the contained power which emanates from her work.”
Art Critic, Richard Walker
