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Amelia Crouch is intrigued by how meaning is created. She uses different forms of language and image to consider how context changes, and the media themselves impact on, the construction of meaning. 'Coloured Words' brings home to the viewer the primacy of the visual over the verbal. While the viewer looks at the text, a tape is playing of someone reading out the actual colour of each printed word, rather than the colour the language refers to - creating discord between the reading of the literal meaning and recognising what is heard. Another work 'Dream Home' works on the disparities created between language and image.
A video piece 'Soft or Posh or Rich' shows images of an empty bus stop. Its soundtrack is a first person account of a meeting between a young woman and an older man. Relating their misunderstandings, the work considers how we may judge other people and reveals tensions around class, race and gender.
'Self Same' considers the potentially forceful effects of language. Two monitors run quickly through a series of 4 letter words that are constantly changing by just one letter. The words, apparently innocuous, become aggressive and confrontational as the viewer makes connections between previous and subsequent words.
Amelia graduated from the University of Leeds Fine Art course in 2003, is an active member of the artist's group 'Monitor', and is participating in 'Situation Leeds', a series of works and interventions by artists around the centre of Leeds in May 2005. You are invited to follow her progress on
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