Everyday monument
10 x 12 inches


Tessa Sutton


My work investigates relationships of time, personal and collective history, and psychological structures focusing on themes of displacement and transition. Starting from a point of personal experience, I research, gather and integrate subject matter from disparate sources that extend to science, history and archaeology, and synthesize them into painting and drawing.

The newest works are monuments to states of change and shifting. Recently I participated in a workshop, “The Everyday in Art Practice” which focused my current body of work on an investigation of the idea of transitional monuments encountered in daily life. These homages to the in-between moments of life mark the space of an absence, transition, failure, or a simple act of being, such as listening or looking. Through painting and drawing, mediums themselves made monumental through the lineage of art history, I play with the idea of memorializing mundane states of life.

http://www.tessasutton.com