Samantha Donnelly's practice is concerned with breaking down subjects and reconfiguring them as new objects in an altered state. The starting point is generally something from everyday life and experience: Landscape and the environment; magazines and photographs; design, colour and the domestic.

>Frequently parts or whole collections of earlier work(s) are reused, or function as a new starting point which is subsequently added to. This process creates both a fickleness of the object and a sense of memory of what it used to be.

>The objects are sometimes lurid or ridiculous or sticky-looking or precarious. They often appropriate historical styles as cartouches; Modernism and its concerns of surface, balance and colour; or the Baroque with its dramatic chiaroscuro and elegant use of detail.

All text and images © Samantha Donnelly, 2007-2008