''a collection of mixed media drawings especially created for Birmingham Open Studios''
Having completed my first year as a mature student studying
Black Studies at Birmingham City University, I feel the creative need to expand
my studies into my artwork.
Black identity is a theme that runs through my work, as I’m interested how as Black people we form a sense of who we are.
Below: #7 in the Hymn series, graphite / mixed media / collage
Hymns is a
collection of mixed media drawings especially created for Birmingham Open
Studios: Portraits of civil right leaders and people that I have sourced from
the internet have been drawn on to hymn pages. I use these portraits to splice
cultural and iconic imagery together over symbols of power and hierarchy by
using collage, graphite, ink and acrylic.
I am interested in making enquiries
into our visual, historic backdrops; the examined and unexamined, the seen and
the unseen. My work also uses symbols of colonialism to view how patriarchy
often underpins and exploits society and how this too can influences our
psyche.
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