Urban Silence 1

For some years now Gauntlett has been developing and focusing her own research on the theme of the urban landscape, constantly discussing the progression of the rapidly transforming landscape in terms of architecture, technology, politics and social change. For this purpose, the artist uses a wide range of mixed media techniques and various supports from canvas, to wood, to sheets of metal.

Her latest series are no longer personal memories and simple postcards or diaries from her travels, as the earlier works of Gauntlett may appear; instead they compare to a mirror turned to face society. Nothing is put in pose, because the artist wishes to document everyday life as it is, the single human instant, captured in a decisive moment: a journey, an aimless wander between youth, maturity, old age and death.