THE BODYSHOP 2019

The Final Work – After 3 years studying Art Practice at the University of South Wales, I have finished my final piece of work ready for the degree show on Friday 7th June. The ceramic and mixed media installation aims to represent celebrity cultures influence on body image, particularly plastic surgery and cosmetics. I have…

Progress

The last 2-3 weeks I have been concentrating on the build of the shops frame, the door, roof and the arrangement of my work. I have struggled with a range of obstacles during this and am still not 100% happy with the layout of my workout so am going to continue testing arrangements once the…

Building the Shop

After drawing multiple plans and working on photoshop to test compositions and colour combinations I have now started the construction of the shop. This has consisted of building a simple frame and painting the walls grey (I chose this colour as opposed to my previous choices of red or pink to create a slight contrast…

Logo and Shop Front

I have designed a logo for the Bodyshop in photoshop, using a ‘B’ on its side to reference breasts. I used text on photoshop and then drew on the nipples in a loose graffiti style so it looks like someone has graffitied the shop sign. This will be used as the shop sign above the…

Plastic Surgery

After my tutorial and the tutors advising me to push the use of mixed media, I have been working on the individual pieces to build layers and make them look like they’ve undergone surgery but aren’t perfect… similar to frankenstein’s monster. I have also created another mannequin figure using a sheet face mask as the…

Anna Boghiguian – Tate St Ives

I have recently been to see the Anna Boghiguian exhibition at the Tate St Ives – the exhibition consisted of work surrounding the cornish tin mining industry and was combined with pieces based on her travels and heritage – a key ‘place and culture’ theme. The pieces that stood out to me were the painted…

Display Plan – 3.2.

I have been researching various shop displays/window designs as inspiration for my installation final piece in which I want to create my own shop window. I have decided to go with a clinical/luxury look to reference surgery as well as expensive designer shops.  I have therefore decided to use a black and white colour pallette…

The Body Shop

I have recently been exploring the use of mannequins in my work as I feel it equally represents that concept of puppet/control and also references models and consumerism. I have been experimenting with creating figures using components from ready made mannequins combined with my ceramic pieces and other mixed media materials e.g. bandages, plasters, modroc…

Limbs

Leading on from the paper dolls I have been exploring the idea of creating a figure made from several parts and then connecting them once the parts have been made rather than when the ceramics is wet (on a large scale using flat slabs is quite difficult)… I have explored the visual look of cabinets…

Paper Dolls

Inspired by Exquisite Corpse (a surrealist technique founded by Andre Breton) I have created a series of paper dolls made from collage and drawn elements joined with copper wire – these are experimentations for larger ceramic and mixed media pieces to represent celebrity culture’s influence on body image and the removal of the ‘other’. I…