Miranda Donovan

Miranda’s work addresses the darker sides of civilisation and its decay. Departing from the sculptural elements of the once defined brickwork that dominated her earlier work, Miranda has now taken urban elements from the street and juxtaposed them with an eerily familiar landscape, the home.  Miranda entices us with traces of former opulence and wealth alongside the lingering presence of filth and decay in the décor. Her visually striking, three-dimensional, almost free-standing pieces invite the viewer to look just below the softer surface into a contemporary world full of beauty and luxury mixed with squalor. She experiments with the realms of reality and fiction to create a world which often emits macabre undertones, but also exposes an unexpected beauty beneath the initial flawed appearance. In other words, appearances can be deceptive. One is reminded of infamous Soho-ite, commentator, and drunk Jeffrey Bernard who allegedly claimed that despite feasting his eyes upon the architectural wonders of the ancient world, he had “never seen anything quite so beautiful as the rotting fruits and vegetables of Berwick Street market.”

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