Above It
Peisley’s paintings invite the viewer to engage with the dialogue she has between her memory of self and others. There is an abstracted sense of self here which she is trying to reclaim.
We witness a ferocity of intention in the laying on and stripping back of paint, the packing of bright pigment, quilted together like the skin of Frankenstein to make viable figures that speak their indefatigable truths. Within calligraphic mark-making and pools of colour, her portraits demand a returning gaze. Hard to stay present to, they are disquieting, the enquiry feels relentless, the need for affirmation through consolidating these pieces repetitious, as she creates psychologically charged portraits, which, she wills to live.
Both the object and subject of the work, we see her physiognomy and that of close others merging as boundaries are ruptured and repaired through painting, through relationship, giving the figures the sense of being fluid and available for us to project into.
Above It
Bear
Breath
Compass
Exit
Flood
Forward
Homeland
Red Mountain
Sunrise
What the Rabbit Said / We Talked About This
Bewitched
Black Madonna
Electric Woman
I Expire Nicely
I knew she meant something
My Shellona
So you think you know me
The Messenger
And as for me
30 x 30cm
Oil on canvas
How I see you now
30 x 40cm
Oil on canvas
I want you, not you
30 x 30cm
Oil on canvas
I’m afraid no
30 x 30cm
Oil on canvas
Self Portrait
75.5 x 91cm
Oil on canvas
Surplus
30 x 40cm
Oil on canvas
What we do with what we are left with
76 x 61cm
Oil on canvas