Abigail Braithwaite is a video installation artist from Birmingham. She completed a BA in Fine Art at Newcastle and is based in Birmingham as part of the Stryx Studio group. Her work and research is based on the Baroque and how an overwhelming sensory experience is conveyed through fragmented excess. Her work explores our continued relationship with opulence throughout history and the use of artifice and illusion to maintain a virtuous appearance. 

 

Abigail’s work uses ambiguity in the soundtrack and visuals in an attempt to disorientate the viewer. There is rarely a linear narrative in order to further disrupt the conventions of viewing a film. Beauty will be found in the process of attaching flesh to wings or by a still life scene decaying, and there is delight within that deception. The artist aims to distill opulence and sublime beauty into a few carefully framed and choreographed shots and transitions and then having that collapse in on itself in an equally marvelous and spectacular way. 

 

Abigail was awarded the Bartlett Scholarship to fund research into sound and video installation. 

Through this research Abigail aims to evolve her use of medium to to further the somatic response of the viewer.