PHEE JEFFERIES

We always see things, but we very rarely look at them. I love to analyse the world around me, considering the things that are so normal we don’t even think twice about them and how strange they really are. Through my work I try to encourage people to notice the weird and wonderful aspects of the human condition, and to embrace them. By purposefully taking things out of context the viewer is forced to reconsider what they are looking at and really focus on the objects form, drawing attention to the abnormality of it - like when you repeat a word so many times that it begins to feel strange and disconnected, and you wonder if it is even a word at all. Once you start then you begin to see absurdity in everything, and even the most mundane objects become full of a bizarre and nonsensical beauty, which makes life seem so much more exciting!

NEWS AND EVENTS

NEWS AND EVENTS

Adrenaline Junkie: Exploring Horror Through Art and Digesting the Abject

Norman Rea Gallery - The University of York, Heslington YO10 5DD

I am super excited to have been invited to participate in “Adrenaline Junkie” at the only student-led gallery in the UK! This exhibition explores humanity's fascination with the grotesque and our morbid curiosities, and aims to destigmatize horror by inviting you to confront your feelings of discomfort. It presents the genre as productive for social and political causes, and as a source of comfort for those that are alienated by the media. It will also spotlight the body as a vessel for trauma, whilst actively rejecting the misogynistic gratification found in female suffering that has been apparent since the genre's conception.