Art with a Cause
Political Collages
A surge of political awareness.....
Largely Jaques Villegle inspired. This is where I began a lot of experimentation. Tried screen printing for the first time, experimented with collage and stencilling. This is the point where I really began seeing art as a way with which I could get across my own views and opinions. |
A Critique on Education Systems
"This is our education" - mixed media collage, spray paint (10 hour final exam piece, 2016)
This was by the far my highlight of the year. The piece was hung up (quite conveniently) at the front of school and remained there for a good 6 months. It didn't sit well with everyone (most notably some teachers who argued for it to be taken down earlier) but I'm quite proud of the fact that the majority of people I came across - mostly students - really enjoyed it and felt they could relate to it. Sometimes, to make a point, you just gotta go all out, no?
Above are 4 selected mood boards of the 8 sides I completed over the 3 months running up to the exam.
Raising Awareness Through Art: Overfishing
This particular project can be seen as a continuation of the theme I had begun to work in the year before: the capability of art to raise awareness for issues often left out of daily conversation.
Overfishing is a specific issue that hit close to home for a number of reasons. Growing up in a very environmentally-conscious family and having a mother working in the aquaculture sector -- a rather rare field to be in, especially as a woman -- often brought such topics to the table. My love for the sea, its creatures and its mysteries, began from a young age. The increasing depletion of this life in the seas at the cost of human action is an issue which, at the time of writing (2017), is not at the forefront of popular environmental conversations. Research into the topic presented numbers which were truly shocking, and something I wanted to drive a conversation about.
Overfishing is a specific issue that hit close to home for a number of reasons. Growing up in a very environmentally-conscious family and having a mother working in the aquaculture sector -- a rather rare field to be in, especially as a woman -- often brought such topics to the table. My love for the sea, its creatures and its mysteries, began from a young age. The increasing depletion of this life in the seas at the cost of human action is an issue which, at the time of writing (2017), is not at the forefront of popular environmental conversations. Research into the topic presented numbers which were truly shocking, and something I wanted to drive a conversation about.
In an ideal real-life scenario, these would be displayed very-large scale in a highly populated place, in order to reach the maximum amount of people possible and hopefully garner more attention, therefore creating a bigger impact.
Art inspirations:
BLU
Fayez Barakat (Global Warming)
Aaron Staples (Greenpeace collaboration: Not Just Tuna)
Yin Lum (Global Warming Series)
And a load of anonymous street art...
Art inspirations:
BLU
Fayez Barakat (Global Warming)
Aaron Staples (Greenpeace collaboration: Not Just Tuna)
Yin Lum (Global Warming Series)
And a load of anonymous street art...