Artist Statement

Semester Two

Artist Statement/Future Plans

 

 

¢  This semester had been a very busy one. With the exhibition that took up quite a lot of time, the Dissertation and the Hybrid print project we have had a lot on our schedule. In saying that I feel is has been very successful. This semester I have stuck with a similar theme to that of semester one, that being High Fashion. It is a theme I wanted to keep on in semester two but knew I had to change around my concept and ideas moving my project more forward. As photography clearly is what I enjoy most, I kept it on throughout the second semester. This semester I really focused on clean digital prints and experimentation. I really enjoy contemporary art and I worked on creating contemporary, chic, high fashion pieces as my final prints. Experimenting in-between prints and finding my strengths when it came to photography helped my work in second semester progress and with the use of Photoshop I was able to explore new ways of editing my photographs which helped me create interesting, colourful, abstract digital prints. Each of my pieces have reflections in them. This has a deeper meaning then just a reflection on a surface. To me they represent the reflections of the fashion industry. From my research on the fashion industry in semester one this is where I got the idea of incorporating reflections as a representation of the industry into my prints. I then started incorporating High Fashion and Art into my prints, an idea that was taken from my research of my essay. I have done a lot of research on some of the most famous collaborations between artists and fashion designers. This has helped me gain knowledge which resulted in new ideas for my main studio pieces and my parallel practice. As this semester has drawn to a close I feel my studio project work has progressed in a positive way resulting in modern, interesting high fashion digital prints which I am extremely happy with. In my future plans I hope to continue working on my parallel practice which is of the modern, high fashion still life’s and continue to further my knowledge on the photography studio as I would like to continue using it next year, as well as brainstorm how I may be able to represent my photographs through the use of printmaking.