Caitlin Dolman

Within my practice, I place myself in front of the empty composition with paint and a premise. I proceed to build from this and intuitively feed my creative process by allowing personal vulnerability and cathartic release. Using semiotics of colour and language to relate to points made within the art, solidifies the context in which is being read. Exploring the topics of mundane life, intrusive thoughts, stigmatized discussions such as LGBTQIA+ and feminist issues, mental health, grief and how we, as people, react to them. Building tension not only between the explicit and implicit, poetic-like text to open and close consumer narrative but also through domination and submission. Using confessional, text-based art to highlight the weight of which words can be used with set intention and the value reclaimed language can have when placed into a new context. All created through the lens of a female presenting artist in hopes of inciting conversation that may not have otherwise taken place.