Janice McNab

The oil paintings of Scottish artist Janice McNab are known for their stillness and depth. Her surreal imagery is drawn from the food, clothes and detritus of daily life, the things we eat, use, and throw away. McNab transforms these intimate objects into composite body-landscapes that explore the space between internal experience and the social political field. Her psychoanalytic perspective shimmers with art historical references, all seen through a feminist lens. For the last twenty-five years, this research-driven practice has also traced a growing anxiety tied to overconsumption and ecological decline - a silent world seen in single use plastics, broken aeroplane chairs, figures of melting ice that are also ice cream, and her most recent work, a series of fragile landscapes found in the folds of an old scarf.