Collette Rayner - Tests on previsualisation. Tests on dredging. Tests on floaters.

About

Tests on previsualisation. Tests on dredging. Tests on floaters, is a presentation of new drawings and animated works by Collette Rayner. The exhibition is part of an ongoing body of research by the artist into acts of dredging (bringing something deeply deposited towards a surface) previsualization (creating a visual plan in order to arrange a structure for the future) and floaters (things that appear unexpectedly). 

Rayner utilizes labour intensive, hand-drawn stop motion animations consisting of up to 900 drawings, utilising the methodology of animation to allow the construction of fictional narratives in an attempt to approximate a sense of reality. The works move tonally towards soft-core science fiction, in pursuit of a state of weirdness: a disconnection of understanding coupled with stabilizing scenarios - gut bacteria is figured as a form of mind control, the artist attempts to visually preview scenarios in order to do the future-self a ‘solid’ by predicting obstacles and self-fulfilling cycles. Through these works the artist attempts to look through an un-reality to something that is close to the experience of anxiousness about the future.

This exhibition is the fourth in a series of projects at Two Queens across 2018-19 aimed at providing the opportunity for emerging artists to develop ambitious new projects through a supportive curatorial dialogue. The programme is made possible by public funding from the National Lottery through Arts Council England and De Montfort University.