Artist statement
Art gives me a creative focus. When involved in the world of art I have confidence, freedom and the enjoyment of challenges. My present course at Art University Bournemouth BA Fine Art has taught me a range of techniques which has expanded my artistic awareness of different ways of art. I enjoy learning and experimenting with mixed media working together with photography, illustration and collage in my art process. The technical skills that I will be exploring in my practice include photocopying, scanning, layering, illustration, photography and Photoshop. By combining some of these skills I feel I will be able to execute and communicate my concept well. I have been creating my blogs on modern art and creating graphic images, this requires a range of different computer skills.
My work I produce analyses, questions and tackles issues surrounding the female body image, identity and beauty. I will be exploring the concept of the disappearance and loss of a female’s individual identity due to society’s continual focus on consumerism and enforcement of certain beauty standards on to women. I have been experimenting with wallpaper as a medium .Testing with printing onto wallpaper as well as cutting out patterns from wallpapers to create new wallpaper designs and layered these on top of the images of women. Creating the impression of disappearance and identity fading away by manipulating the way we see the human form.
I will be experimenting with different materials and strategies such as wallpaper as my main material to obscure the face and other identifiable features. The face is the most identifiable part of the body, so by removing parts of the face, the subject’s identity will become concealed leaving you to question who they are and what their personality is like.
I have taken part in a few local exhibitions, such as sway New forest (2104) and Bournemouth Art University studio (2015) which have I included my Solo work and collaborated with other artist with addressing my artist opinion to help create the exhibition. My collaborated project includes working in the New Forest with using natural material found from the surroundings areas and creating an object to exhibit.
An artist, which has inspired me in my work, is Andy Warhol and his theory on beauty. He examines beauty from a unusual angle and looks at beauty from a different perspective, highlighting there is no standard of beauty. Beauty can be looked upon in different ways by different people. Warhol’s theory has influenced me to further my practice on the standards of beauty.
Art gives me a creative focus. When involved in the world of art I have confidence, freedom and the enjoyment of challenges. My present course at Art University Bournemouth BA Fine Art has taught me a range of techniques which has expanded my artistic awareness of different ways of art. I enjoy learning and experimenting with mixed media working together with photography, illustration and collage in my art process. The technical skills that I will be exploring in my practice include photocopying, scanning, layering, illustration, photography and Photoshop. By combining some of these skills I feel I will be able to execute and communicate my concept well. I have been creating my blogs on modern art and creating graphic images, this requires a range of different computer skills.
My work I produce analyses, questions and tackles issues surrounding the female body image, identity and beauty. I will be exploring the concept of the disappearance and loss of a female’s individual identity due to society’s continual focus on consumerism and enforcement of certain beauty standards on to women. I have been experimenting with wallpaper as a medium .Testing with printing onto wallpaper as well as cutting out patterns from wallpapers to create new wallpaper designs and layered these on top of the images of women. Creating the impression of disappearance and identity fading away by manipulating the way we see the human form.
I will be experimenting with different materials and strategies such as wallpaper as my main material to obscure the face and other identifiable features. The face is the most identifiable part of the body, so by removing parts of the face, the subject’s identity will become concealed leaving you to question who they are and what their personality is like.
I have taken part in a few local exhibitions, such as sway New forest (2104) and Bournemouth Art University studio (2015) which have I included my Solo work and collaborated with other artist with addressing my artist opinion to help create the exhibition. My collaborated project includes working in the New Forest with using natural material found from the surroundings areas and creating an object to exhibit.
An artist, which has inspired me in my work, is Andy Warhol and his theory on beauty. He examines beauty from a unusual angle and looks at beauty from a different perspective, highlighting there is no standard of beauty. Beauty can be looked upon in different ways by different people. Warhol’s theory has influenced me to further my practice on the standards of beauty.