Naomi Wrigglesworth

I believe alternative awareness and unconventional narratives are obscured by standardised collective norms and fashionable practices within contemporary society.
My artistic enquiry is an attempt to challenge what we think we know, unearth and explore hidden narratives in and around me.
I try to capture some of the enigma and indifferences present in the deviation of what I know to be common experience, without excluding common experience entirely. I endeavour to evoke slightly ambiguous ideas that the 'viewer feels both familiar but unfamiliar with.

Some of my work attempts to do this via the exploration and manipulation of time-narrative.
As humans we possess a chronological and linear comprehension of time. This contributes to defining the appearance and meaning of the activity that takes place within time. I refer to this as two dimensional time space.
I attempt to create new aesthetics and narratives via delineating information within a three dimensional time space. By three dimensional time space I refer to volume that is free from conventional order.
It's concerned with depicting variations of a given information that simultaneously exist alongside the narrative of the two dimensional time space.
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2008 – 2009
Leeds Metropolitan University,
BA Honours Degree Contemporary Arts Practice

1st Class pass



2006-2008
Wakefield College/ Leeds Metropolitan University
Degree Fine Art

First class distinction