Shaylin Wallace

Shaylin Wallace is an artist who works mainly digitally. With a conceptual approach, Wallace creates work in which a fascination with the clarity of content and an uncompromising attitude towards surreal and minimal art can be found. The work is very imaginative and unconventional and such cool, unique imagery is used. Her practice provides a useful set of allegorical tools for maneuvering with a surreal-minimalist approach in the world of art: these meticulously planned works resound and resonate with images culled from the fantastical realm of imagination. By applying abstraction, she tries to approach a wide scale of subjects in a multi-layered way, likes to involve the viewer in a way that is sometimes physical and believes in the idea of function following form in a work. Her works don't reference recognizable form. The results are deconstructed to the extent that meaning is shifted and possible interpretation becomes multifaceted. With a subtle minimalistic approach, she creates intense personal moments masterfully created by means of rules and omissions, acceptance and refusal, luring the viewer round and round in circles. Her works directly respond to the surrounding environment and use everyday experiences from the artist as a starting point. Often these are framed instances that would go unnoticed in their original context.