Friday 27 November 2015

Exhibition At Gage Gallery

First Layout

First Layout

First Layout

It was suggested to me by Col to separate the layout into two separate pieces and to lay them out on different sides of the boards, he also suggested that I should move the plinth to be further away from the other two pieces to make it less direct.

I separated the images and tried a different way of presenting them, Yuen suggested that they might look more interesting on the bare insides of the boards rather than white on white. Also the small balls that were on the plinth looked better as just one rather than multiple.

Finished Exhibition Layout Images

The feedback I got from the visitors to the exhibition was good and Julie gave me some good ideas to take forward and explore in my work including: she liked the subtle details, try censoring with make-up, photocopy them to do lots of them rather than just one, piles of the balls, likes the subtle stitching and pink between legs sanitary product, billboards mock ups what would they be like & censoring with Biro scribbling.

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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.

Vikki Stevens

Friday 27 November 2015

Exhibition At Gage Gallery