Friday 1 May 2015

Millie Brown

Millie Brown

"I wanted to use my body to create art," she remembers. "I wanted it to truly come from within, to create something beautiful that was raw and uncontrollable." So what exactly did she do? "I vomited the entire rainbow on the stage." Altogether, it took around two hours, colour after colour. "I wasn't even sure if it was physically possible," she says. "I hadn't eaten in days because I didn't know how long it took for my stomach to clean out food. And I don't think having chunks of food within the paint is necessarily beautiful."
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I came across Millie Brown when I was researching around eating disorders and body image, although her motivation behind the work is not relevant to what I am interested, the way her work manifests itself is. The act of forced vomiting comes from individuals with conditions like BED (Binge Eating Disorder) in which the person will binge on high calorie foods/amounts and then purge their system by vomiting, or other conditions like Bulimia. 





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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