Thursday 16 April 2015

What now? Ideas to expand on after the exhibition

What Now?

After my exhibition I hit a bit of a blank wall, I wasn't sure on how to keep going with my work on 'Auntie Frankie' after doing so much work on freedom. However, after reflecting back over my work up till this point I started to think of some concepts to pursue. My first thought was to produce a flip-book of sorts, it would depict the journey from male to female, sad to happy, captive to free. I thought about several ways of doing this, I could make a traditional flip-book, make hinged canvases or use layers of acetate. To depict the journey I would change the materials, colours, patterns and textures. Also from this idea I could possibly do a series of paintings instead of a flip-book. 

Evolution Picture: https://www.exchangewire.com/blog/2015/02/17/evolution-atd-means-holding-groups/


My second idea was to draw a person running from one side of the paper/room/canvas etc., similar to the evolution drawings. I thought for this I could reuse my geometric style of drawing and perhaps add in some new techniques like embossing. Along this theme of evolution I thought about metamorphosis, I could perhaps show the journey with symbols like hatching out of an egg or being free from a cocoon. Other symbols could be used like weights, cages, shackles, handcuffs etc. which links back to my exhibition work with the blindfold and gag symbolism. 

Geometric style I could bring back into my practice

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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