Zie Sowden is a multidisciplinary artist, frequently utilising the forms of fibre, video and the physical to explore the symbiotic relationships between the masculine//feminine, labour//mechanisation, and etymological pathways within modern linguistics.
Glasgow School of Art Degree Show.
The natural appears within the practice through charcoal realisations, ‘sinew’ drawings, through exploring the impact of light//shadow, but also through the membrane-esque sculptural forms that become the manifestation of a research-based practice.
This complex symbiosis between the masculine//feminine has an underlying predominance woven into the practice; domesticity intertwined with the masculine. The principle of abstracting the traditional, inserting it into a modern time frame, whether suitable or not, is an inherently masculinised action which is played on within the work.
Immersion of the viewer into the artwork becomes a tool of the evocative, intertwining the emotions of the artist with those of the audience, a shared experience stitches one together.