Continuing my experiments with lino printing I have used my own sketches from the life drawing class, increasing the size of the lino and continuing to experiment with different materials.
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I have just started a what I think will be an ongoing photography looking at the objects and rituals associated with my Buddhist beliefs.
This first image is of a temporary shrine. I had limited space and only a few devotional items to make the meditation shrine with. However, it helped me create a small area if tranquility where I could meditate. I have used photoshop to remove most of the colour only the petals of the dying flower retaining their vibrant colour - emphasising the transient nature of beauty and life. I recently visited the Bridget Riley exhibition at the Graves Gallery in Sheffield and was inspired to create the following prints.
Fascinated by her use of line and colour I wanted to explore this in my own practice. While Bridget Riley’s pieces look at optical illusions created with colour and line I was more interested in line and colour. To create these pieces I used acrylic paint and a gelatin plate, the lines were created with various combs purchased in a chemist. While I call these mono prints – I layered prints of different colours over each other to achieve the effect I wanted to achieve. The refugee crisis has been dominating the news headlines and I have created this sculpture in response to the desperation felt by the refugees and all involved in the crisis. I’ve developed the tape figures and created the sculpture using wire, plaster, and wax. Initially I used beeswax, but found that encaustic wax gave a better finish and allowed me to add acrylic paint.
The concept that many artists and academics today see the life drawing class as outmoded and irrelevant to the contemporary artist frustrates me and so I have decided that through my work I will investigate if sketches produced in the life drawing class can be used to produce contemporary art and if taking the poses out of the traditional environment alters people’s responses for example the sexualizing of a pose in the media. Taking one sketch for a life class I have experimented with graphic pens with different materials graphic pens, tracing paper, digitally altering the image, repeatedly scanning and layering the image. I have also been working on two soft sculptures in poses from the life-drawing classes. With these figures I wanted to capture the voluptuous qualities of the models flesh and to investigate if people’s response to these poses changed outside the context of the life class. I used tights as the skin as I wanted to use a material that was associated with the feminine form. These figures alongside the earlier drawing experiments will be the pieces I show at the Unit 17 exhibition.
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AuthorSue works in mixed media with a particular focus on acrylics, textiles, and photography. Archives
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