Bethany Hadfield lives and works in London. She graduated from Wimbledon College of art in 2016 and in 2022 received an MA in painting from the RCA. Hadfield's practice co-exists in different dimensions, one confined to the screen, of rendered animations and digital images and the other inherently physical, consisting of large-scale oil paintings.
Sketches are created on open-source 3D software, and are a result of various digital improvisations. The digital images are then translated to canvas with acrylic to eliminate gestural notions achieving a smooth artificial finish. The immediacy of 3D software is contrast to the gradual and intuitive process of painting to explore verisimilitude.
As physical records of the image economy, they are formed from networked labour and collaborations with the machine. For Hadfield artistic creation is not individual but a mediation of one's role in collaboration and social interaction.
"I work in the emancipatory realm of technology. With the aid of digital tech I produce paintings explore the networks of what is considered the 'self', 'ecologies', ' future" (Bethany Hadfield)
