Tuesday, 10 November 2015

Crit Group feedback november

Crit Group Feedback (November)



  • Richard Hamilton looking (one with chairs): Wacky and subversive.
  • After reading: Text/narrative draws more attention. Sets a tone.
  • Trapped in their own beauty.
  • The text continues to make sense (good).
  • Slick images, styled & touched up, amateur covering opposite to image meaning. Precise materials, deliberate placement.
  • Why certain materials? Strong lead to environment.
  • Individually each one different - pink connotes sex.
  • Trapped - beaten up - not sure - trapped - sexual.
  • Object, no gaze, maybe swap to other body parts?
  • All are provocative except one - string one.
  • De-personal.
  • Interested in colours: Yellow and pink - childlike and weird.
  • Feminism & objectification.
  • Floral & yellow: curious about choices.
  • Look articulate not experimental - yellow between legs.
  • Liked the stitched element.
  • Words crossed out don't flow well with the image (string piece).
  • How far is too far? (In regards to subverting images).
  • Work as individual pieces, what would happen when placed in groups?
  • They don't say eating disorders.
  • Ethical side.
  • Terry Richardson.
  • Why am I making?
  • Exploitative or not? Use personal story?
  • Do I want to be literal/obvious?
  • PETA Campaigns
  • Floral - Housewife: Cath Kidson.
  • Anti-feminist world.
  • Hard to subvert more, becomes too corny/deliberate.

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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