Jenny Wiggins

My system of working is like planting a seed, the image “grows” out of the process. Maps are sealed on aluminium, wood or paper and thin layers of Acrylic paint are applied to form a sort of strata.

Parts of the maps are then revealed by sanding and scraping, excavating and uncovering: revealing orconcealing. In some pieces linen-backed maps are overlaid with colours taken from the atlases of my childhood, in others from colours of plants.

I use maps as descriptions of place and as objects in themselves. The regular section lines or grids in the folds of the maps, suggest a view of our landscape that is controlled by history, memory and experience.

The work may offer the possibility of some sort of explanation of ourselves. A way of searching for evidence, unearthing small shards or layers of meaning, revealing or proposing explanations for our relationship with the past or possible future.

Jenny Wiggins studied Fine Art at Canterbury College of Art and gained an M.A. at Goldsmiths College. She is currently exhibiting at the Affordable Art Fair Battersea,, Caxton Contemporary, Whitstable and Paul Mcphearson Gallery, Greenwich.