Lette’s work is concerned primarily with the figure and questioning the impact of contemporary life upon body and mind. In today’s world we are bombarded with images, information and a constant noise of interruption that should be more surprising than it is. Inspired by current events, Lette works from life, memory and collage to explore this embodiment and disembodiment in the real and virtual spaces that we occupy. Her work often uses humour and irony investigating the personal and societal anxiety underpinning daily life.
Lette’s practice questions the impact of contemporary living upon body and mind and how that might be manifested in a portrayal of the figure. Inspired by current events, Lette composes figures dis-assembled in relation to her gaze, framed by the real and virtual spaces we occupy. Painting proposes an alternative plane to work through the questions of this world on the screen of another ground, transforming the banality and absurdity of everyday life into something transcendent through art. With this in mind Lette approaches the images she creates with a belief in their reality in which the surreal, concrete, illustrative and subversive sit alongside one another creating their own conversations.