Thursday 30 April 2015

Muscle And Fitness

Muscle And Fitness Magazine

After doing some experimentation with Topman magazine pages I thought what if I use a very masculine magazine and make it more feminine and still about the internal struggle going on. I found that the results were very good and I really liked embroidering onto paper and how it feels to hold the object itself. 

M & F: Page 1


M & F: Page 1 


M & F: Pages 2 & 3

M & F: Pages 4 & 5

M & F: Pages 6 & 7

M & F: Pages 8 & 9

M & F: Pages 10 & 11

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M & F: Pages 14 & 15

M & F: Pages 16 & 17

M & F: Pages 18 & 19

M & F: Page 19

M & F: Page 19

M & F: Pages 20 & 21

M & F: Pages 22 & 23

M & F: Pages 24 & 25

M & F: Pages 26 & 27

After making this I bought a fashion magazine called 'V' and I would like to experiment more with that and collaging on images. I thought that if I wanted to explore body image and disordered thinking in relation to the body, using the most idealist image of beauty would be a good place to start. 

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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