STEPHEN DERNOCOURE
Artist's Statement - Stephen Dernocoure
My art and its development would best be described as a sojourn of apprenticeships beginning in the early 1970s.
The tacit experience has always been the preferred position and independent scholarship often framed this approach to my development.
The arenas for this creative development have been in editorial illustration, design, theatre sets and exhibitions where painting and drawing were significant.
The process of installation works was directly built from the theatre experiences of the early 1980's.
Approximately twenty years ago my creative endeavours found a home in the realms of medical science and healthcare, and significantly these working areas were stimulated by my enjoyment of the teaching process.
The application of artistic and creative endeavour in healthcare sustains my quest for the larger questions pertaining to mind, emotion and experience in this cauldron we call culture and in the feeling chambers of the human heart.
Stephen Dernacoure, There Are Seven Red Moments Series, charcoal, red ochre on paper, 30 x 42 cm
Stephen Dernacoure, There Are Seven Red Moments Series, red ochre on paper, 30 x 42 cm
Stephen Dernocoure, To Be A Man, acrylic and wax crayon on paper, 52 x 78 cm
Stephen Dernocoure, The New World Night Palace On Liberty Street, acrylic & wax crayon on paper, 79 x 141 cm
Stephen Dernocoure, Black Screen and Shadowed Daylight Dance, acrylic and wax crayon on paper, 43 x 185 cm
Stephen Dernocoure, In The Days of Screen Reason, acrylic and wax crayon on paper, 70 x 120 cm
Stephen Dernocoure, She Walks From East To West With Her Heart In A Plastic Bag, acylic and wax crayon on paper, 60 x 146 cm
Stephen Dernacoure, I Saw Him Dark Juggling Light, acrylic and wax crayon on paper, 168 x 139 cm