Bex Massey works with many fine art mediums, but her professional practice usually stems from drawing installations.
She is interested in the use of graphite throughout the ages: From the renaissance and the ‘old masters’ school of drawing, to the flux in likeminded individuals reinvigorating these skills in the modern day. She has produced a large and varied portfolio based on this premise. Her work stems from Graphic novels to large scale 2D and 3D drawing installations; in which Bex makes reference to a large and varied caliber of art related fields and practitioners. For example; Olivia Plender, Tim Burton, Quentin Tarantino, David Hockney, Caravaggio, French and Saunders, 'marvel comic books' and 'pulp' amongst others.
Bex's primary research stems from a wide variety of novels, and for three years she has concentrated her work around the likes of Shakespearian texts. Bex has been involved in various projects of a similar theme. In 2006, she also exhibited in London and Sweden in a collaborative exhibition which aimed to illustrate Sartre's 'Nausea'.
More recently she has been producing work based on 'The Kite Runner' by Khaled Hosseini. This has given her work a more political edge and is the basis for a new series of work entitled ‘The Forgotten Soldiers’. In this exhibition she has produced drawings of civilians ensnared in wars which are being fought around them. Each adult and child has been published in numerous broad sheets, in varying photographs and yet none of them seem familiar. Bex has omitted areas of detail and seems to leave each of the nine images unfinished, and in a sense underexposed. In doing so she asks the viewer to further address what they are viewing. To look once more at the snap shots of pain, fear and death and maybe rethink the way in which we respond to the countless images like these we see every day.