ARTIST STATEMENT
My practice is interdisciplinary, incorporating drawing, painting, installation and animation. My work has a slightly sinister edge taking inspiration from gothic and psychedelic rock culture, pop art and the darker, decaying cycles of nature. My imagery often portrays (or actually includes) discarded materials such as hair, bones and feathers. I am interested in the break down and displacement of these materials and our emotional response to them. Our perception of hair, for example, changes dramatically when no longer attached to the body but seen out of context in a pluhole or as a matted ball collecting dust.
Discarded, decaying materials are the traces left behind, the suggestion of a presence or event, an unseen narrative.
Rona Innes studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths College followed by a Masters Degree in Computers in Design at Middlesex University. Since then her artwork has appeared on magazine covers, on digital billboards around the world, in national museums, as stage projections with bands, published in books and in the windows and interiors of leading high street retailers.
As well as her own arts practice, Rona undertakes commercial commissions and collaborates with others.
As well as her own arts practice, Rona undertakes commercial commissions and collaborates with others.