Saturday 7 February 2015

Drawing From A Personal Perspective: Workshop

Drawing From A Personal Perspective: Week 2

Mediated Self: Drawing With Photographs


In week 2 of the drawing workshop with Yuen we did some experiments using photographs or images from magazines etc. which had some relation to our art practice. I used images of 'Auntie Frankie', the first experiment was to manipulate the image by folding, cutting etc. then to draw from it focusing on it's materiality rather than the actual image. The feedback I got from Yuen was that I needed to make my drawing look more three dimensional by adding more extreme shadows.
My image from the first exercise.

Drawing the image on our partners.

The second experiment we did was to use one of our images and to manipulate it again, we then stuck them to the person's face who was sitting next to us. We had to draw the object and the person's face together. I found this exercise more difficult as my image was quite small and also it was hard to organize working together to draw each other as we would keep moving to look at each other.
My partners image on me and my drawing of her and my image.

My partner for the exercise with the image on her face.

My partners image on my face as I draw.

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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