Alana Lindsay

@moonlumps

Alana Lindsay is a British artist whose practice navigates between painting, sculpture, and extensional thoughts. She studied Fine Art at Cardiff Metropolitan University, where she was awarded both the Helen Gregory Bursary Award and the Dulcie Mayne Steven’s Bursary Award. Her fascinating work delves into self-control, regression, mortality, self-worth, and emotional compartmentalisation. 

“Shaped as a cube, Sailan is the world I have created governed by gods embodying my emotions and traits: self-hatred, narcissism, mortality, immortality, love, and identity. Various characters who wander the plains of this world have become embodied by wearable sculptures that are used to create the paintings. Becoming both the subject and the tools of my practice.

 

My paintings feel as if they’re struggled sculptures, and my sculptures feel as if they need a function. These two conclusions fuel my desire for destruction and the devaluing of my work during the creative process. The wearable soft sculptures of a teddy bear and a sun allow me to fully immerse myself in play. The regressive experience they give allows me to give into impulse and commit anti-social acts.

 

Treating the canvas as an object and giving the sculpture a purpose removes all value to the two objects and gives me the illusion of freedom. Once I am done playing, the paintings retire as art and the art objects retire as sculpture. Their value is restored to me when they become art.”