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Jameela’s work is centred around the properties of charcoal, and paint. Large drawings made with charcoal, a material that holds traces of bodily action, and of past lines. Oil paint in its physical weight, its ability to converse with its surroundings, and to hold many more colours than white in its spectrum. Both ask questions about how we look, read and interact with different forms of movement. She talks too with the musicality of mark, of how the body reacts to sound- to music. Images hold sound, hold memory. Through drawing alongside music making, and the playing of selected scores to evoke this joy, this exhalation of the body, this connectivity that music brings.
Movement is at the forefront of her practice, in the movement of line- the speed and intensity of it. In the movement of my body as she works, and in the movement of the bodies that are depicted. Line and in that mark making is of great importance to me, becoming engrossed in, at one with the making of the mark. Working primarily across drawing and painting, questioning the boundaries of the two, Jameela has adopted an intuitive way of image making. Using charcoal, oil paint and distemper to make works that explore our relationship to the internal and external informed by music, sound. Combining auditory and visual composition.
Please contact for enquiries: jsgordon-king@outlook.com