Laura Burchett
Fine Art

Laura Burchett’s practice aims to produce an external image of the internal thought processes behind Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. She challenges the stereotype of OCD being typified by an obsessive desire for cleanliness, turning off lights and locking of doors. She confronts this stereotype through the example of an obsessive fear of committing anything illegal, with the ultimate fear of being imprisoned. Using this example, she portrays the reality of living with OCD in everyday life, presenting the demolition by OCD of daily activities. Different works are based upon a variety of triggers to the OCD, ranging from shopping with friends;… more going to parties; staying at friends houses; going on holiday; holding down jobs; going to night clubs; going through security checks to potential plagiarism. Her work portrays the obsessive compulsions and rituals in which the sufferer engages, in order to prevent the ultimate fear. It reflects the sufferer’s avoidance of situations seen as potential danger such as wearing certain items of clothing or carrying luggage; constant reassurance checking, endless counting of numbers and steps; repetitive touching, opening or closing and lifting of varied objects and endless rumination. Through producing predominantly Installation, she aims to immerse the viewer within her work and portray the vicious Obsessive Compulsive cycle. In doing so, she presents a reality that is far from the perceived stereotype or the behaviour people may endearingly refer to as their personal OCD habit. She uses methodology tools such as research into the intelligences and senses in order to engage the observer. In the production of her work she applies it to the spatial, bodily-kinaesthetic, linguistic, logical-mathematical, musical and the personal intelligences, in order to enable everyone to have an opportunity to access a greater understanding of OCD. She directs the observers’ sensory receptors in the same way. Engaging the observer through targeting their external receptors (sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell) alongside their proprioceptors (movement of the head, body and their spatial position).Thus, as the observer is drawn in, they too begin to take on the pace, energy and anxiety of the OCD thought processes. less

• Location
  Bournemouth
• Age
  21
• Joined
  Mar 11, 2010
• Views
  187

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Arts University College at Bournemouth
BA (Hons) Fine Art
2007 - 2010