Fern Lovande studied at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design and was a recipient of the RSA John Kinross Scholarship 2024.
Love and Labour
Seek not to sterilise this here patterned life.
Delight in abundance; in trailing the blooming webs between image and idea: exterior and interior.
Decorative disease turned antidote to the homogenous.
Where function follows form. Where the words ‘art’ and ‘life’ are synonymous.
Work, like a machine. Take pleasure in the capacity to produce, infinitely.
Make until you can make no longer. Until your body grinds to a halt, buckles, bows, and finally, snaps.
Gentrify the anonymous labour of those factory garment workers, their efforts uplifted through paint on canvas, transformed by these chaste, white walls.
They say love thy enemy. Love Clement Greenberg.
I’m in love with you, my creations.
Labour Hard. Love harder, still.
