Saturday 7 March 2015

Drawing From A Personal Perspective: Workshop

Drawing From A Personal Perspective: Workshop

Self Initiated Project: Devise, Plan, Rehearse

This week was the start of our self initiated project, we started by outlining problems in our art practice.

Problems:

Now/Past                           Future

Transgender                      Mental Health Disorders
Emotions ------------------->                 
Identity --------------------->                    
Journeys ------------------->
Discrimination                    Food
Cultural Differences           Physical Health/Disorders
Normalisation                    How The Mind Works
Beauty
Gender Equality
Gender Neutrality
Feminism

Main Problems: How can I show a Transgender journey/identity/emotions without discriminating?
What if I can't not discriminate?
Impacts on gendered spaces.
Is it societies, cultures, communities or humanities problem?

Relevant Artists

1. Oreet Ashery - We are never free.
2. 'Auntie Frankie' - Photography work, beauty in the in-ordinary.
3. Grayson Perry - Identity and how he shows it.

Ways Of Approaching The Problem (In The Context Of My Practice)

Overlapping/superimposing images
Male over female and the reverse
Drawing on images/writing on them
Images on acetate layered

Video/Photography Work
Photos of me drawing the original photos of 'Frankie'
Recording a discussion or photographing it (non-diegetic sound maybe?)
Video my exhibition!
Mouthing male/female with the opposite gender speaking
Photographs in front of the video camera
Photos are concrete evidence

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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