Cheryl incorporates the hybrid practices of painting, drawing, seriality - multiples, packages - and digital time-based media within her work. Pattern via wallpaper and fabric is used as a model, or initial structure on which to act.
Upon these surfaces paint is obsessively applied in slight, delicate strokes in order to gradually warp and mutate the original pattern or via the pricking of a pin, punctures the surface and interrupts the formal structure of the pattern.
Key elements within her work explore: repetition via pattern and process, the hybrid and disparate practices within fine art and design, the possibilities within the boundaries of calculation and chance / strategy and gesture.
Cheryl utilises a range of strategic procedures to on the one hand reiterate the original pattern, yet ultimately to interrupt the surface. The process brings into question the notion of originality, authorship and the sign of the hand: gesture.
Repetition ironically reinforces the original whilst making apparent the slight nuances of each layer of the painted and punctured surface. Repetition thereby enhances and reaffirms difference.
Praxis and touch are visible through the traces upon the surface of paint, puncture and lipstick.
These signs of the performative act establish a beginning, during and the anticipation of the future. Touch links to memory: of a personal history, intuition and desire.
Touch explores the libidinal and transgressive nature of exquisitely applying media to surface or pricking the skin of paper.
Within these procedures is a desire to over-lay the surface, whilst ironically attempting to explore something of the poetics of life.