Wednesday 19 November 2014

Monoprint Workshop

These are a select few of the prints I did in the monoprinting workshop this week. These are the favourite prints I did and most of the prints were themed around David Bowie as I am fascinated with him right now. I hadn't done any monoprinting since college and it took a while to get used to the method again, especially writing backwards! I found that monoprinting was a good way of getting out of my comfort zone, drawing quickly is something I struggle with and all of the images I created took less than five minutes. 




The text images I created were mostly song lyrics from Bowie's discography, I found that I really liked how the writing looked when it came out, writing backwards seemed to add something to it that I couldn't consciously do.



Vikki Stevens is an emerging artist interested in many areas including body image, mental health and abstraction. Her latest series of work aims to show how images and perceptions of women are “put- together”/ manufactured, and how these images and perceptions affect how women feel about their own body image. Vikki’s ideas for her artwork are expressed in mediums such as paint, collage and sculptural objects, mostly incorporating repurposed images from magazines and found documents. Artists such as Tracey Emin and Hannah Hoch have a large influence on her work. Both the personal perspective and distorted images play a major part in creating pieces that discuss personal as well as cultural issues within mainly the western world/media sphere. Stevens is planning on developing her work into a more abstract sphere to investigate feelings that she has herself and how she can communicate them by using and developing abstract techniques, continuing with collage as a starting influence. Currently the materials and processes she has used in her past work and the work in development are having a large impact on how the work develops and the message behind the work is entirely open. Rather than having a stand out message Stevens is now moving towards a more indirect way of working, focusing more on feelings rather than statements. Current concerns within the work reflect how Stevens feels about herself in day-to-day life and how outside influences affect her and her work. More specifically Stevens is dealing with feelings of anxiety, panic attacks, depression and how she feels as an individual in the world. Artists such as Gerhard Richter, Barbara Kruger, Yago Hortal and Steve Salo are having a large impact on the current work in development.

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