My name is Courtney Gregory, and I am an artist and aspiring curator. My practice through my BA has revolved around the understanding of mental health and identity, made all the more important through the past year through the Covid-19 pandemic. By exploring my own archives, I intend to create an empathetic and personal connection with the audience, seen in the sharing of narratives from my dreams and diaries, the images of myself and my destruction of personal artefacts. There is an emotion behind each of the works. They intend to infect the audience, for the purpose of making them think about their own relationships: to their spaces, objects and selves. But there is also an element of art therapy and these diaristic works are as much self-expression to allow myself to think through ideas as they are works for exhibition and audience.
I am a multi-disciplinary artist working in performance, film, print, sculpture and installation. By utilising a wide range of mediums, I intend to speak about the ability for artistic practices to infiltrate life, design and the perception of the self; the objects we use, and love can be a part of us.  This last year has forced me to use what I already had, to evaluate the collections and objects that I keep, and I hope this project, at the least, will make an audience consider what beauty, what poetry, occurs in their everyday.
I am going on to study the MA Curating Contemporary Design at Kingston. I am going to further my knowledge in design in order to inform my future practice, and to pursue my career aspirations as a curator. The curatorial is a crucial part of my artistic processes as I truly know that the way an artwork can be presented can affect the way it is perceived and there is an opportunity to create layers of meaning through the gallery, museum, public and online spaces.