Gail Brodholt Response

My response to Gail Brodholt. The medium chosen is digital using a Wacom Intuos Pro drawing tablet and Adobe Photoshop. These technologies were chosen due to the lack of access to printmaking materials during lockdown, therefore I tried to recreate Brodholt's style in photoshop through focusing on the formal element of colour. I wanted to present my creative intentions of how man in contemporary society is tied to the urban landscape which responds to the brief in presenting a form of manipulated landscape to raise awareness on the importance of these spaces. During this specific case of the pandemic I thought it would be fitting to convey the notions of London Transport with the colour green as a sickly and biological stigma. The fantastical choices in colour enhance the view of the pandemic as omnipresent, which would be a powerful installment at an exhibition in a public space. I specifically wanted to explore using urban scenes as a reference for my practice as it is more fitting than a rural landscape when presented with man. This is a development from my initial preliminary piece that presented the connection between man and urban.

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