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'Dirty Pretty Faces Series' [Wharf Fine Jewellery] Print
Printmaking, Fabric on Soft (Yarn, Cotton, Fabric)
Size: 11.7 W x 16.5 H x 0.4 D in
About The Artwork
'Dirty Pretty Faces Series' [Wharf Fine Jewellery] Photocopy Transfer* & Ribbon on Paper 420 x 297mm 2007-08 *transference of photocopied images using solvents which separate the ink from the original copy allowing it to be pressed onto a fresh paper surface The work here employs techniques of printmaking and drawing, at times interspersed with hand sewn and collage elements. These pieces have been particularly inspired by female imagery from glossy magazines as featured in present-day advertising campaigns and fashion industry model shots. They ironically depict ideological figures of female beauty captured in doll-like poses, which are then integrated with typically effeminate symbols such as flowers, lace and sensuous folds of material, toying with “feminine” connotations that are often suggested and manipulated in the original texts, to produce images which themselves are intentionally disturbingly beautiful.
Original Created:2007
Subjects:Popular culture
Materials:Soft (Yarn, Cotton, Fabric)
Styles:SurrealismRealism
Details & Dimensions
Printmaking:Fabric on Soft (Yarn, Cotton, Fabric)
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:11.7 W x 16.5 H x 0.4 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:No
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My Art practice focuses on human conceptions of beauty, especially in relation to women, as they are mediated between art, culture and the viewer. I am particularly interested in formations of gender, power and the manipulation of desire used in contemporary mass media and often appropriate such imagery within my own work, to explore its power of seductive distortion and its ability to structure our way of seeing through everyday consumption. Within my pieces I employ techniques of drawing, printmaking, photography and painting, at times combined with hand-sewn & collage elements. I use the subjects and objects associated with feminine beauty; faces, bodies, hair, mixed with lace, ribbons, veils and flowers. These are cropped, reframed, covered and uncovered, or separated from their usual context and brought under intense scrutiny, attempting to distort and derange, to challenge our everyday assumptions of female beauty.
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