VALDA BAILEY

VALDA BAILEY

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I make art using photography and mixed media. My practice leans into imaginative abstraction, exploring what happens when a camera is freed from the burden of simply replicating what's in front of the lens. I teach at https://fyv.art

Pedra d Ouro, Portugal

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Costa de Prata

Not silver as in jewellery – silver as a condition of the light. On the pewter, pink and inky moods of Portugal's Atlantic light, and starting again in a roofless studio.

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A Forest, Not a Plantation.

The internet has been farmed hard. On Ghost, the Fediverse, and choosing a tangled corner of the field over the polished plantation.

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Estrago

A treehouse that kept its roof, a house that didn't, and a box of spoiled paper that is evolving daily. Estrago, at Studio Atlantic.

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Why Water?

Water is the subject where looking-to-keep is hopeless and looking-to-be-present is the only option.

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What the Hands Know

My studio is in boxes. On cold wax, kozo paper, the surface that pushes back, and the way the hand understands what the eye has yet to realise.