ISAAC ANDREWS
I like the currency within isaac andrews work, the way his topics and themes for his work are very important to right now. Art that reflects the time in which its made. I think there is this urgency within his work and also I love the way he has used materials that are a reflection of what he's trying to express. I have emulated this idea within my own work by printing onto tights there is a conversation between the connotations of the tights as a material as well as how the print interacts with them.
‘In June this year, between 15 to 26 million people, in the US alone, attended Black Lives Matter protests in response to the murder of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and hundreds of others who have suffered at the hands of the police. This was the biggest movement in US history (according to The New York Times).
This piece documents these protests, acting as a reminder of these times, and as a response to these protests. As time passed, headlines and Instagram posts faded away, as if nothing ever really happen. Attitudes have obviously changed for the better, but the energy of these protests quickly disappeared for so many, yet this piece forced the viewer to think back, and remember.
The layers of found paper, cardboard and parcel bags that make up the piece resemble abandoned protest signs, left and mostly forgotten, while also referencing boarded up windows and cars that lined scenes of the protests. The piece also features a screen print of a protest scene, capturing the sheer emotion of the protestors, accompanied by images referencing anonymity (necessary for protestors) and black lines of tape (aimed to represent censorship, as if it’s blocked over text, linking to mass censorship of these protests). A wooden stick, battered and dirty, strikes the middle of the piece, again referencing the protest signs, and the sticks used to hold these up. The screenprint image, the visual focus of the piece, is faded and blurry, and hard to see what it depicts. This links to the media’s skewed representation of these protests, wrongly labelling mostly peaceful protests as violent riots.
These protests were powerful, and beautiful. They gave me hope. The energy shared across the world was incredible. So we can’t let that be forgotten.’
HELEN CHADWICK
Her work for me speaks through he materials as well as her desigs onto the materials. There is a very domestic connection between the tactile nature of the large wooden sculpture that is shaped like a hooded pram despite being made from wooden planks. I like her references to stages in life from birth- childhood-adulthood, the exploration of time chiang and her own physical sense. I like the way she is personally within her own work, featured in print ad well as within her artwork. Within the cooker there is a discussion of being trapped, the role of women within the household. I like her conversations between societies mixed up messages about female sexuality, she uses text to juxtapose ‘adore’ (love and respect) and ‘abhor’(regard with disgust and hatred). I like how her materials reflect the themes of her work, he used raw meat to highlight the notion of women as consumable products. She explores truth in contradiction and other theories.
EMMA TALBOT
Her work confronts issues of the modern world, like gender, birth, and the environment I particularly like the way in which her works take up different forms, the draped nature of the banner, in contrast to the room division which alters the space in a very different way. Her work has informed my idea of how I want to present my work and looking at how textiles can have a sculptural look
I like that the basis of her works are founded on femisst issues,, one of her pieces exploring the way women are seen with age. I like the way she combines word and image. There is a lyrical nature to her work which I think connects her personally to her subject matters. I like this personal connection and have tried to tackle this within my own works, exposing thoughts and feelings through artworks.
Her vibrant use of colour and materials that allow light to flood through the colours chosen make her pieces very atmospheric. I find the illustrations within her work quite dark and haunting through their irregular people shapes but that also adds to the topics she is exploring within her work. Of identity, gender an connectivity.
ZOE BUCKMAN
Her exhibition here fetaures the lyrics of Hip-hop and Rap music exploring the lanague used towards women. The lyrics are a refecltion of the time at whihc they were written, wintin the lyrics there is mysognistic sexist conent but also positive messages, and buckmans work looks at the crossover and the sapce between the frgaility an beauty of the lingere and the words of the rappers. She is not definf the neative instead turing it nto a conversation. The garmenst she ahs used have a history and the pieces range in time, there are restricive corsest
‘The work uses both the sexist and misogynistic language as well as the positive language of the different song lyrics. Buckman is not shunning the violent content, but rather exploring the dialogue between the two and finding a way to flip the negativity — to create something beautiful, and hopefully thought provoking, as a way of working through the struggle. Because, in a country where young black men are born to believe there is something intrinsically deviant about them, how can one shun the music for expressing the violence that they have been told they possess?’
I love this installation and think there is such beauty and room for conversation within the ideas of the music. It makes the lyrics easyier to identify as innapropriate remarks. There is also a sense of reclamation and the use of embrodery Buckman uses this female heritige to reclaim the words of Tupac and Biggie.
PAUL RAPHAELSON
Urban photography, I like the structures he captures, broad lines which define a space graphic quality and the history that is also captured
There is this sense of excitement in each photogray like the beginning of an adventure. No entry signs and railings add to this feeling of youth and rebellion
There is something frightening in some of his images the rusting structures and equipment that tell a story through time of industrialization and how they have been rendered obsolete now
I also like his images with people in, capturing train journeys and movement using light reflections and blurred images to create this sense of time passing and beauty in everyone's lives
LOUISE BOURGEOIS
This is performative piece where a man is wrapped spiralled in the bandage cheesecloth which louise describes as a comforting material, she sees the bandage as a good thing saying a baby can be swaddled and wounds bound
For Bourgeois the process of stitch and material fusion is symbolic, attempting to fix damage caused within her personal relationships. This intimate way of binding fabrics and materials and the thread acting as a healing power.
Her fabric work offers a sense of poetry the use of delicate words and direct address
create this sense of immediacy like a
child calling out. Her abandonment work stems from her father leaving for war and her family following him from camp to camp. The use of red throughout her work is to me like a lifeline like blood or memories always flowing somewhere in her pieces.
The circled hands she has embroidered into photographs taken by her father during war periods focus around hands as she circles touch and the lack thereof when she was younger which she wanted from her family.this tactile desire is expressed through fabric and the raised lines of embroidery
Barbara Kruger
Conceptual artist combining graphic text with mass media images, I like this similar to Rauschenberg with taking something familiar to an audience and re-defining its suggested meaning. (the images of Marilyn monroe, using pop culture idols to make statements) Her work is often a direct feminsit critique and she also comments on consumerism. This activist side appeals to me and puts context into her works. She examines stereotypes.
Uses Futura Bold Oblique or Helvetica Ultra Condensed font in all her works - kind of linking to the billboard idea in using a font that is easily readable from a distance, also using bold makes it that much more direct and defined.
Inspired by Alexander Rodchenko a russian constructivist (art aimed to reflect modern industrial society and urban space)
uses language to broadcast her ideas
Her work mass media imagery to criticise exactly that, using the similar images as her visual language she can communicate with and audience that absorbs the same images but with different meanings behind them. Using the medium of what you are trying to adress interesting idea. Her works criticise the spectacle of mass-media imagery while taking advantage of it as a powerful means of communication
her work is consistently about the kindnesses and brutalities of social life: about how we are to one another
She uses language to question cultural stereotypes, using the opposition of 'we' (women) and 'you' (men) as a way of attacking the fact that art and culture are usually directed towards a male viewer - interesting to address male female differently.
I like her work for its direct address, political social urgency and how it is has a very graphic presence to it, there is a versatility from prints to large scale posters.
Jenny Holzer
Her work focuses on the delivery of words and ideas in public spaces. This sense of public dimension is integral to her work, she has presented large scale installation in public spaces like advertising billboards, projection onto buildings and she has made illuminated electronic displays. I like the way her work is a form of street art accessible to all and open to modern forms of presenting works. Links to Barbara Kruger's work in which she uses mass media images to make her work and present it to the same audience, by using these public places Holzer addresses people. She used to be
An abstract painter but stopped that to use a more explicit medium to convey her art and reach a bigger audience ‘From the beginning, my work has been designed to be stumbled across in the course of a person's daily life. I think it has the
most impact when someone is just walking along, not thinking about anything in particular, and then finds these unusual statements either on a poster or in a sign.’In her work ‘Inflammatory Essays’ she read lots of works and ideologies on Far right - Left politics to produce 20 lines of text of exactly 100 words to convey lots of different ideas and talk about things that are important to people but without ‘preaching’ the ideas. I like the idea of immersing in a culture of a topic to get an understanding alternate from my own, looking at the opposite of what I believe in could expose meanings and motives otherwise unseen to me. ALso the idea of just presenting information with no stance. She wanted ‘them to be pasted directly on the wall, from floor to ceiling with their edges overlapping slightly so that no wall shows through’ , this idea similar to how i like to present my work by creating this overwhelming sense of work or mood.
‘She often blends poetics and politics’ Holzer's work makes me want to write down my own thoughts of the world start formulating my feelings and anguish as well as happiness and beauty in life. To create my own set of one line ‘truisms’
ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG
Rauschenberg uses his own photographs in his practice as well as found, I like the way this can make a work personal and gives a ‘snapshot’ type quality. His ‘Combines’ blur the lines between art and material and he creates this conversation between everyday objects. He wanted to break down all barriers between art and life ‘When you see art that’s made out of the stuff of the real world, that’s coming off the walls, that is his legacy’ ‘The silk screens, according to Borchardt-Hume, “have a very clear sense of, ‘This is the world I live in, and this is what I care about.’
The work of rauschenberg has very much been the underpinning of this project, as he explores the way text and image can interact to create alternate endings. The idea of capturing a moment in time within an artwork has also
been very interesting to me. His use of alternative materials informed my use of the shed roof for one of my pieces and also his connectivity to fabrics and the way fabric has its own form, through cheesecloth fabrics he printed onto t-shirt encased within a painting becoming rigid.
MARK TENNANT
I love the energy of Mark Tenants work, the undefined up closeness of the people featured in his work but from afar the shapes and clear and there is a sense of movement because of this. I like the underpinnings of his work, on youth culture, drinking and popular culture. The photo of women with bags over their heads act as a metaphor representing how people only want to look at the female bodies, like a consumable product.
I love the puree
xpression
capture in his
paintings. The
commonplace environments and the
anonymity within the defined brushstrokes, suggesting that these people could be anyone, people I know, these could be my memories or my images. I like the anaomity
KATE GIBB
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