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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