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Erica Eyres is a Video Artist based in Glasgow, Scotland
Erica Eyres, Destiny Green, 2006. Courtesy of Rokeby.Through drawing and film Erica Eyres invites the viewer into an uneasy world of disenchanted youth and beyond. Eyres is fascinated by the absurd and how we, as humans, react when faced with situations which generate conflicting emotions. Eyres creates characters from her shrewd observations of both daily life and the manufactured world of the 21st Century, obtaining her material from conflicting sources such as television and film, history, the news and the everyday and ordinary.
The awkward figures created by Eyres are documented in drawings—the line of which emulating the subject matter—or are bought to life by the artist in film. Often the characters lives are exposed as disturbingly troubled, and the viewer is confronted with figures who deserve both our pity and distaste. Faced with the absurd lives of her characters and the conflicting emotions generated by them the viewer is forced into an uncomfortable position where inconsistent emotions are required to be addressed.
