Two such artists are Peter Booth with his bleak and nightmarish images and Tracey Emin as she relates her work to her personal experiences and ideas on life.

English – born Peter Booth was originally known for his black minimal ‘doorway’ paintings of 1970 – 1974. But by 1977,he had given up his previous style to record the world of his dreams and nightmares in a series of apocalyptic and visionary landscapes. Since then his work has changed dramatically moving through different phases, and constantly challenging both himself and the audience with occasional images of the weird and shocking.

His beliefs and ideas are explored through his art practice as many of his ideas come to Booth in the form of dreams, experiences through out life, stories and novels. His dreams are bleak and explore aspects of fantasy, which to him appear in a spiritual context. These ideas are then presented in the form of rough sketches, drawings and paintings.

His nightmarish compositions that appear in his wo

However it is the look she beholds at the end where she dances to Sylvester’s ‘You make me feel mighty real’ which she dedicates to the boys she left behind. This performance gives off an empathic response as we share her joy for having got away and for turning her experiences into art. This is just one of her pieces that show how she expresses her spiritual self throughout her art.

Booth’s painting technique makes it possible to maintain its power in his works as he thickly applies the paint in a way that makes it appear almost ‘edible.’ Booth is able to build up his paint surface, incredibly richly empowering both the paint and his images accordingly.

This form of personal expression that is demonstrated throughout her works particularly shows in her short film, ‘why I Never became a dancer.’

During the process of creating her pieces, Emin allows herself to connect spiritually with her work, which provides her with a means of self expression and indirect therapy as she discusses her personal experiences which have left a lifelong impact on her.

rk from 1977 onwards, deal with his expression of horror at his belief on the human races ability to live in piece. Most of his ‘horrific’ pieces deal with a composition of corruption and anarchy. While some are based on the climatic changes which Booth claims ‘affect him.’ This is reflected as he explains, “sometimes the pictures are very still, or they’re agitated, it depends on the weather.”

Booth’s paintings suggest that he perceives that the human race is on the edge of another dark age.

The brochure from AGNSW quotes “ her art is her life, her history and vice versa. It has meaning only in so far as Emin herself does.”

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