Through the prior research project I have developed a interest in political art. Art that covers topics of significance. I have begun looking at art as a form of activism and protest. The issues looked at within the previous project; gender based violence, refugee crisis and
the treatment of Black people within society put in motion for me to carry on this need to show the stories of others with art as my tool to do this.
I have been very influenced by the work of Rauschenberg throughout this project. The meaning and messages carried through his work inspired me to look at feminism in the
modern age. I liked the way Rauschenberg used popular culture images, the picture Of JFk and
the space landing as well as images
The techniques of Rustenburg.
, his use of image transferring and combining this with paint and screen print have really inspired me. This mixed media image that has movement and communication between each section. I have used image transfer a lot within this project and like the way it gives me a rough faded image. The sample is image maker of a Rauschenberg print onto sheer tights. This also created a dialogue between femininity - the tights being women's hosiery, and also the delicacy of the faded image on the soft surface of the thights.
The first response for this project i made i wanted to be a crossover with collage which I had used as a medium in the previous project and paint to create a very Rauschenberg final image. I wanted this piece to be expressive and carry a sense of movement. Using images of national geographic allowed me to explore images that I gave a new meaning too. Images of swans and rivers I put across one side of this image to reflect nature and the effects of global warming. The centre features a 2 page spread of identical cars with drivers all dressed the same which I think of as a reflection of the modern age and the 40 hour working week, and the idea of a monotonous lifestyle. I wanted this artwork to have bold strokes and be in a tension with the found images to try and begin conceptualising my concerns and ideas that I wanted to focus on for this project.
Made in a Rauschenberg style of screen printing but I wanted to take a more 3D approach and print onto fabrics and other surfaces. Materials used, tights, sheer fabric acatte, newspaper, tissue paper and newsprint.
I like the way the print responded differently with each material, I tried to leave the imprint of some of them on the screen create a textured effect.
I wanted to address my concerns of climate change and the fashion industry. I made this Bioplastic response to combat the idea of fast fashion and the time it takes for clothing to degrade. This plastic takes 3-6 months and will dissolve into nothing. I was also planning to include parts of this within my patchwork > however I became more absorbed into my screen prints and addressing concerns through print as a medium. This is a technique I would like to revisit in an alternate way in future, during my A-level textiles I had experimented with making textures with bioplastic but in future I would like to see how tissue and the plastic could combine to make a fabric or material similar
dimension and depth that is created by his work. I used oil pastel against wooden table to make my response to this, using the rough surface of the table to create texture and movement. I transferred these arbitrary number and barcode like images onto the piece and particularly liked the way text placed the abstract work in time or a moment. I used a large Tv screen sheet for this and the transparentness of the sheet allows for light or bachgrund to come through. If i was to take this further I would print onto the back of it with some lettering.
Once I found this article I became very motivated within this project. The words of Trump became something I wanted to disprove or show had no value and this project began to take the form of a cathartic porches where I would make response that redefined what he considered success or what a woman should be. Within his words he places value on attractiveness for the male gaze, intelligence, age and sexual promiscuity. I wanted to redefine all of these terms and show the beauty of women without the male gaze, within female friendships and the strength of girls.
I made some the digital collages that I felt reflected these ideas and made screen printed images with them. To me each image is a reflection of youth cultures and each has a graphic quality to it. The figures within the images are myself and friends adding to this personal connection with the work. I think that each image in particular the ‘fence jump’ is a contrast to the value Trump has placed on women, in the images I see friendship, adventure and confidence.
On Halle Berry
1. "I love her … upper body." [February 2013]
On Beyoncé
2. "When Beyoncé was thrusting her hips forward in a very suggestive manner, if someone else would have done that it would have been a national scandal. I thought it was ridiculous ... I thought it was not appropriate." [February 2013]
On Carly Fiorina
3. "Look at that face. Would anybody vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next president? I mean, she's a woman, and I'm not supposed to say bad things, but really, folks, come on. Are we serious?" [Sept. 9, 2015]
4. "Why does she keep interrupting everybody?" [Nov. 10, 2015]
On Jessica Chastain
5. "She's certainly not hot." [February 2013]
On Stormy Daniels
6. "Horseface" [Oct. 16, 2018]
On Cher
7. "Cher is somewhat of a loser. She's lonely. She's unhappy. She's very miserable." [May 12, 2012]
8. "I promise not to talk about your massive plastic surgeries that didn't work." [Nov. 13, 2012]
On Mika Brzezinski
9. "I heard poorly rated @Morning_Joe speaks badly of me (don't watch anymore). Then how come low I.Q. Crazy Mika, along with Psycho Joe, came to Mar-a-Lago 3 nights in a row around New Year's Eve, and insisted on joining me. She was bleeding badly from a face-lift. I said no!" [June 29, 2017]
On Hillary Clinton
10. "If Hillary Clinton can't satisfy her husband, what makes her think she can satisfy America?” [April 16, 2015]
11. "She got schlonged." [Dec. 21, 2015]
12. On Clinton taking a bathroom break at a Democratic debate: "I know where she went, it's disgusting, I don't want to talk about it … No, it's too disgusting. Don't say it, it's disgusting." [Dec. 21, 2015]
13. "If she were a man, I don't think she'd get five percent of the vote." [April 26, 2016]
14. "Does she look presidential, fellas? Give me a break." [Sept. 6, 2016]
15. "Such a nasty woman." [Oct. 19, 2016]
On Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand
16. "[S]someone who would come to my office 'begging' for campaign contributions not so long ago (and would do anything for them)." [Dec. 12, 2017]
On Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters
17. "An extraordinarily low IQ person." [June 25, 2018]
On French first lady Brigitte Macron
18. "You know, you're in such good shape. Beautiful." [July 13, 2017]
On Steffi Graf
19. "You never get to the face because the body's so good." [Sept. 23, 2004]
On Paris Hilton
20. "Now, somebody who a lot of people don't give credit to but in actuality is really beautiful is Paris Hilton. I've known Paris Hilton from the time she's 12, her parents are friends of mine, and the first time I saw her she walked into the room and I said, 'Who the hell is that?'" [2003]
On Arianna Huffington
21. "Unattractive both inside and out. I fully understand why her former husband left her for a man — he made a good decision." [Aug. 28, 2012]
On Omarosa Manigault-Newman
22. "A crazed, crying lowlife" and a "dog." [Aug. 14, 2018]
On Angelina Jolie
23. "Angelina Jolie is sort of amazing because everyone thinks she's like this great beauty. And I'm not saying she's an unattractive woman, but she's not beauty, by any stretch of the imagination." [October 2007]
24. "I really understand beauty. And I will tell you, she's not — I do own Miss Universe. I do own Miss USA. I mean I own a lot of different things. I do understand beauty, and she's not." [October 2007]
25. "I remember at the Academy Awards a few years ago she was frenching her brother. She was giving her brother lip kisses like I never saw before in my life. And she had just said she made love to Billy Bob Thornton in the back of the limousine on the way over. And I wouldn't want to shake her hand, by the way." [October 2007]
On Kim Kardashian
26. "Does she have a good body? No. Does she have a fat ass? Absolutely." [Feb. 6, 2013]
27. Asked if her butt is big: "Well, absolutely. It's record-setting. In the old days, they'd say she has a bad body.” [June 18, 2014]
On Megyn Kelly
28. "She gets out and she starts asking me all sorts of ridiculous questions. You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever." [Aug. 7, 2015]
29. "Bimbo." [Aug. 7, 2015]
On Heidi Klum
30. "Sadly, she's no longer a 10." [Aug. 15, 2015]
On Lindsay Lohan
Collages, I wanted to try and make some works that were personal to me and that were like mini time capsules for myself or a topic. I find it hard to put too much of ‘myself’ directly into my work but pushed myself in this way for this project. I created collages online using found images from my camera roll. At first looking at shapes and structures and then putting images that are attached with memory into them. I used a background remover to alter the images and layered them digitally I like the juxtaposition and alternate dimensions within them and the way from each photo I have a memory attached to it
Printing process, I wanted to combine painting within screen printing so used multiple colours and a paintbrush to paint through the screen as well as squeeinging it which gave it a Gerhard Richter kind of effect of painting with movement. I used vibrant colours to create the vitality and joy within the lives
I have also addressed by environmental concerns by using reclaimed fabrics ordered from printing sites that would otherwise be taken to landfill as waste
of women further redefining the words of Trump.
Explorations using colour blocking
This larger piece was accidental and was beneath my printed fabric but the colours were beautiful and some of the images softened by the fabric. I worked into it more and used paint to create movement, much like my first painting for this project.
Experiments via image editor looking at the application of my print onto curtains. I would like to learn how to use photoshop to do this for other interiors
I have made my work hold a personal confessional element through this project, by using images from my camera roll which I can place in time and moments and feelings to me there is this cathartic sense of reflecting a moment in my life
I have used images of my friends and myself , to represent the beauty within female friendships and kind of combat the words of Trump, I am with my friends and enjoy their company for their personalities how they make me feel I value the people in my life for those reason I do not hold value on appearance and what their gender means they should behave like as trump does. I have used these images to be a kind of middle finger to his words. Including photos of friends and I dancing showing the freedom of expression free of embarrassment and just i remember feeling happiness and laughter from this picture, recalling the time and place makes me happy as it was a pure moment of laughter and joy between friends. The bottom image shows the complexity and comfort that can be found through friendships, the way people can combine, heads resting on feet in sleepy poses. The wings to me represent freedom and expression
Using the screen as a way of painting, adding colour in unusual ways and creating a uniqueness to every image. 
Using my collages I printed a large piece of fabric re collaging my own prints in colour, again using the screen to ‘paint’ through. I liked the scale of this piece and the way it could react within an environment
I took the fabric to dartmoor and photographed it at postbridge, I think it does look ‘pretty’ there , the way the vibrancy of the colors show however the landscape was not quite what I was trying to convey through the messages of my prints. I did like the way the fabric reflect with the water.
I also want to experiment with leaving a piece of work out to
the public and seeing what happens, thus beginning the conversations I want to have associated with my work.
I re-photography the fabric within the school grounds particularly liking how it looked from behind with light coming through and the defining shape of the railings.
I also explored the work hung up in a tunnel and a car scrap yard, all of which I think better reflect the themes of this project and they show damage and re-definition.
Abstract piece using a large silk screen to print then working over the top to create dimension, an experimental practice onto fabric to express emotions of anger, fight and sadness
Mixed media patchwork, paper, acetate, and rage of offcut fabrics combined to make a pieced together sample. I like the fragments of this piece and think that having it patchworked together creates a sense of combined stories and an anergy.
Making of a billboard inspired by the principle of street art and using a outcome that is a direct address to viewers or passers by. This became quite a cathartic process of using layers to cover and reclaim the words of Trump. The first layer being covered by my collages in black and white. then layered over with the softened colour, all aiming to breakdown and reclaim identity from the words. Several more layers were added until a white layer over the top creating a sense of newness and a cycle coming to an end by finishing with a blank gave it the sense of newness and cleaning.
After drying I began to tear back into the work breaking down the spaces and trying to show how despite time passing it is difficult to wash off the words of others and they can come ‘through the cracks’ despite efforts to heal.
I lieked this pice but think it lacks the structure and 3-D element that I wanted it to have.
This piece began out of assessing how my concerns and the use of alternative materials. I wanted to choose a material that held an ‘ugynes’ or mechanical manufactured feel to it to reflect the grim themes and harsh words of Trump. I used image maker to add pictures and words onto the corrugated metal. The faded way the images left marks onto the material adds to this notion of covering up and fading through time.
From this point onwards I become an aed with the confessional side of art and using text to not only put out other people's words but my own. Ideas of feminism and the work of jenny holzer and barbara kruger really inspired this set of prints. I wanted to put my own words slightly legible onto my fabric. I like the way the text is distorted and layer, it gives it a sense of anonymity. >
I liked the dark red/ pink that Krueger and Louise Bourgeois use in their work, taking inspiration from this I used a range of dark reds to pinks to print my work
I tried to put into words some thoughts and feelings that stir when thinking about feminism and what I wanted to address through this project. These are what I consider a shared female experience , and these words appear within my prints in a softer distorted way which I prefer. I feel vulnerable through these thoughts but when they are in print I feel like they are less obvious in their meaning and can be interpreted by anyone.
For this piece i again made a patchwork, trying to suggest a combined feeling linking to the idea of shared female experience. Each square being apart of something bigger. The squares have been connected on the outside with visible seams I like this aesthetically as it adds to the quiet graphic images printed onto it but also because to me they are reminiscent of scars or healed wounds.
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If I were to count on my fingers the times a woman I know had been abused in some way I would need a sea of fingers
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There is this don't cause a scene mentality despite the MeToo movement despite shifts in attitudes
Video games further enforce these ideas
This is not problem for women to address but for men to challenge
Other women also perpetuate this but that is a direct result of the patriarchy, they have felt that they have to live up to these standards
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It is the way body types come in and out of trend
How rap songs describe women
How beauty is a determiner of our value
How our intelligence comes as a surprise
How we are always overreacting
Too sensitive - but all these things hurt men too, the way men cannot express ‘femininity’, shunned from talking about emotions told to man up and move on, this culture creates a world where no one can be themselves or express their feelings
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There is this condition that happens to girls
Appearance matters
Seen for pretty faces,
Oversexulise our bodies
Edited images make up ideas self image
Fragmented realities of what beauty is
Dripped into our thoughts
Before we can discover ourselves
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We are damaged before we know what's happening
we are taught to be before we know who we want to be
We are told yes
told no
told to smile
told breathe in
Breathe out
We are taught to not say anything
Taught to put up with it
It's just a joke
We are told be polite ,
be sensible
Don't walk in the dark
Don't wear short skirts
Shouting out cars is a compliment
You should smile more
You led him on
He was drunk
I really liked the way the fabrics for this part of the project came out, I think I have reach a place where I am addressing topics with a personal input as well as outside one. These prints feature my own words as well as extracts of an article addressing female identity.
I printed onto some till roll from my work giving the pint this everyday normality as well as a graphic quality where the logo can be seen. I like to idea of changing everyday items to reflect a topic.
I want to explore the application of this fabric to banners, bags and surfaces.
This piece was inspired by the work of Zoë Buckman, who created a beautiful exhibition using the lyrics of 2pac and Biggie to embroider onto tradition women's underwear as a comment of the way women are portrayed within rap music.
I liked the contrast between the delicacy of the clothing chosen and the dominating texts from the music.
Printing onto used clear plastic gave the print a used feel, and there is something beautiful in the transparency.
The use of the typewriter font places the words into an unknown or timelessness, these could be excerpts from years ago as well as today
Through printing these screens there became this connection between material and the image printed onto it. The idea that it is the material changes the nature of the print. The till roll I printed onto created a conversation between the domestic and everyday items. The idea of traditional female roles of shopping and dressing, link to materials i've printed onto.
I Have become very
interested in how material can change
meaning.I also like the way my words become
obscured by the stretch in the tights, the
movement of the till roll. I feel somewhat
exposed when my words are out on the page,
I feel there is this loudness to them when
they are written on paper, but by having them
on a fabric I feel as though there is this
layer of protection, the material obscuring or
distorting words, and also acting as a barrier.
