Singing in the Rain (1952)

My favourite scene from Singing in the Rain.

Olivia Jeffries

I own two of her prints and I just think her work is beautiful, using carefully selected vintage book pages with water colours, gouache and ink - very simple, but they have an element of the mystic, she often discribes her drawings (and certainly more of the circular drawings) as portholes into a new discovery, somewhere, she herself doesnt know where. She is interested in light, burning holes in paper, pattern and the body, check her out on flickr.

Sally Mann

Scanned from (Artist book) Sally Mann: Immediate Family (Phaidon 1993)

 

Cadbury's Flake Advert 1985

Jenny Holzer

"Holzer belongs to the feminist branch of a generation of artists that emerged around 1980, looking for new ways to make narrative or commentary an implicit part of visual objects. Her contemporaries include Barbara Kruger, Cindy Sherman, Sarah Charlesworth, and Louise Lawler." NY TIMES

Most known for her Truthisms series - consisting of projections (on buildings, billboards etc) of a series of statements and aphrosisms. She offers words of hope, but also warnings of a future shadowed with worry and threat to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. She has the ability to articulate the baser instincts unleashed by social chaos in a profound and meaningful way.

Disaster of a day!
Tried to submit some designs for a christmas card competition, missed the deadline - now currently in possession of over 100 cards (varying designs).

Anyone wanna buy a card?

                               
...Please?

Listen here:
Martin Boyce and Sarah Lowndes join Clare English to discuss the many Turner Prize nominees who come from Glasgow.

Francisca Pageo

More beautiful collage work, focusing on floral/pastoral imagery.

Hilary Faye

We share similar thought processes when it comes to collaging, I will upload a few studio shots of current collages within the week. I love the sense of mystery she creates, in particular with the young girl looking at the moon. The forced gaze that can be created when collaging with bodies has always fascinated me. Faye lends her hand to lots of different mediums: animation, illustration, photography etc. I feel like we share the same mindset - maybe I need to attempt animation? 

I've made similar images in the studio, in particular, I really struggle with finding my images - it takes a lot of searching and flicking to find the right image. I use Vogue mainly because they seem to land upon the right mood I'm after, I think Faye uses National Geographic so maybe I'll broaden my horizons, so to speak. Another thing that makes me nervous with collaging is that I'm nervous about copyright issues (appropiation only gets you so far) - I've been told that ''everything is up for grabs'' especially because of the Digital Age but I don't think I would entirely appreciate someone chopping and manipulating my images, so I owe the same respect to other.

I will experiment with some digital collage with images found online and decide whether I feel the same way.