ALI CORDER
My process always begins with a story. I love folklore, superstitions and old wives tales. I paint some out onto canvas and play with the pieces together, sometimes a section doesn’t work, maybe the colour or the image doesn’t flow so it may get replaced.
“I love the idea of creating a patchwork much like an old quilt. Quilts have a folk history of telling stories and handed down historical wisdoms, so I like to keep my work reflecting this, it works well visually for me.”
This gives me a collection of canvas patchwork pieces that I can reuse and play with for ideas and later work. I love muted colours, a faded kind of colour palette that feels in keeping with the old stories I love to read.
This year I’ve moved my studio practice to a barn in Newmill, near Penzance. It’s really old and wild and has so much Celtic history, which itself is steeped in folklore. The nature, landscape and skies have definitely begun to appear in my work more and more.
I love beautifully made objects and really if it doesn’t have a purpose it will find a space in our home. But I also love buying something functional that has been really lovingly made which means our house is quite eclectic. I also love an object with a story so have acquired a love spoon from wales and a hagstone from Dungeness.
Ali Corder studied Fine Art at Spike Island, Bristol. Some recent exhibitions include Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens, Penzance in 2020, Equinoxy, a Leth group exhibition in Leth exhibition space in 2019 and Sol Force a group show at Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens in 2019.
