About

Samantha Stratton makes digital drawings, paintings and mixed media artworks. By taking daily life as subject matter while commenting on the everyday aesthetic of middle-class values, Stratton touches various overlapping themes and strategies. Several reoccurring subject matters can be recognised, such as the relation with popular culture and media, working with repetition, and the investigation of the process of expectations.

Her works are characterised by the use of everyday objects in an atmosphere of middleclass mentality in which recognition plays an important role. By questioning the concept of movement, she often creates work using creative game tactics, but these are never permissive. Play is a serious matter: during the game, different rules apply than in everyday life and even everyday objects undergo transubstantiation.

Her works isolate the movements of humans and/or objects. By doing so, new sequences are created which reveal an inseparable relationship between motion and sound. She finds that movement reveals an inherent awkwardness, a humour that echoes our own vulnerabilities.

Her works are often classified as part of the new romantic movement because of the desire for the local in the unfolding globalized world. However, this reference is not intentional, as this kind of art is part of the collective memory.

By examining the ambiguity and origination via retakes and variations, Stratton tries to increase the dynamic between audience and author by objectifying emotions and investigating the duality that develops through different interpretations.

Contact Me

Samantha Stratton
samanthastratton@rogers.com