"Part of Porteous’s strength as an artist is that she is able to bring an internal landscape of human experience and memory to the surface in her drawings, sculpture, installation and video work. She causes us to question that which we assume we see and the act of seeing itself."
Georgina Colburn, A-N, November 2008
In my work I use a combination of found objects, automatic drawing and writing. Some of my objects are familiar yet taking them out of their context can render them unrecognisable. Their purpose can be questioned.
The viewers are then at liberty to engage with the pieces, interpreting them in their own way, influenced by personal experience, emotion and attitude. Each individual will have a unique response.
I see myself as a spatial artist using mixed media. My recent installations have made use of numerous materials including sound, video, bedpans and helium filled inflatables, snow globes, CAD designed squirrel embryos, formaldehyde and vaginal specula. I have been influenced by many artists but in particular Douglas Gordon, Jim Lambie, Pippilotti Rist, Mona Hatoum, Louise Bourgeois, Carsten Holler, Yayoi Kusama and Susan Collis.