Saturday 31 January 2015

Drawing From Personal Perspective: Workshop

Drawing From Personal Perspective: Week 1

Concepts Of Self: Drawing With The Life Model

Photo of the whole group
I decided that for my 6 week intensive workshop I would do 'Drawing From A Personal Perspective' as it felt the most relevant to my current practice.  In the first session we did some interesting approaches to drawing from the live model. 

First we did a standard short (10min) drawing.We then started to do various other exercises including only looking at the life model and not at our drawing (see second left image), drawing from a sensory perspective which included us touching our faces and not looking at the paper to transcribe what we were feeling (see second right image). And the final was a drawing done in parts (see bottom image).

Charcoal on paper (A2 size)

Charcoal on paper (A2 parts x 4)

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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