Louise Cox1
Mutilation
Written statement
The work that I produce always has a more profound and meaningful idea behind it than may seem at first and I prefer it this way because it makes the viewer have to engage and think about what is in front of them. My work tends to take on different mediums depending on the idea and work that I want to produce because I enjoy being free with my work, to allow it to guide me as I find it is more interesting like that. In my opinion I think that you shouldn’t just create a piece of work for the sake of making it, the conceptual idea behind the work should go hand in hand with the work itself because then what is the point? Personally I like to work from an idea and have it portray itself through my work, and not have to stand next to it and explain what it is about, but without the work being too obvious and people not having to work to understand it.
I take inspiration from everything around me; for instance I even once managed to do a whole project based on a playing card I found. In recent years my influences have been the likes of Salvador Dalí, Damien Hirst, and Rachel Whiteread. What I love about Dalí and Hirst in particular is they’re great showmen, they loved/love to impress. Still to this day Dali manages to inspire the younger generation.
However, recently my work and ideas are becoming more political due to everything that is happening with our current government and their choices to attack the educational and health systems. So for a politically motivated piece of work I would make sure I had all the facts by watching the news, reading the news papers etc, I enjoy knowing, learning and listening to views that others may have. I especially enjoy debates because that is how you discover whether someone is truly passionate about something.
I aim to get a reaction out of my audience for them to be disturbed or angered by what I have created, I aim to make people work for what they see, it may not be obvious at first what I am trying to portray but I am against pieces of work that are created to look pretty, that have no meaning behind them. I have used this ethos in my work for the Romford Contemporary Arts Programme, I used raw meat to create the prints the idea behind it was not about vegetarians and their lack of meat eating, it was mainly the idea of taking something you see in a restaurant (the painting) and something you find in the kitchen (the raw meat) and combining the two, it was the idea that we’re comfortable with having raw meat in the kitchen where it belongs but if we were to order something in a restaurant and have it come out raw we would be outraged.
Mutilation
Written statement
The work that I produce always has a more profound and meaningful idea behind it than may seem at first and I prefer it this way because it makes the viewer have to engage and think about what is in front of them. My work tends to take on different mediums depending on the idea and work that I want to produce because I enjoy being free with my work, to allow it to guide me as I find it is more interesting like that. In my opinion I think that you shouldn’t just create a piece of work for the sake of making it, the conceptual idea behind the work should go hand in hand with the work itself because then what is the point? Personally I like to work from an idea and have it portray itself through my work, and not have to stand next to it and explain what it is about, but without the work being too obvious and people not having to work to understand it.
I take inspiration from everything around me; for instance I even once managed to do a whole project based on a playing card I found. In recent years my influences have been the likes of Salvador Dalí, Damien Hirst, and Rachel Whiteread. What I love about Dalí and Hirst in particular is they’re great showmen, they loved/love to impress. Still to this day Dali manages to inspire the younger generation.
However, recently my work and ideas are becoming more political due to everything that is happening with our current government and their choices to attack the educational and health systems. So for a politically motivated piece of work I would make sure I had all the facts by watching the news, reading the news papers etc, I enjoy knowing, learning and listening to views that others may have. I especially enjoy debates because that is how you discover whether someone is truly passionate about something.
I aim to get a reaction out of my audience for them to be disturbed or angered by what I have created, I aim to make people work for what they see, it may not be obvious at first what I am trying to portray but I am against pieces of work that are created to look pretty, that have no meaning behind them. I have used this ethos in my work for the Romford Contemporary Arts Programme, I used raw meat to create the prints the idea behind it was not about vegetarians and their lack of meat eating, it was mainly the idea of taking something you see in a restaurant (the painting) and something you find in the kitchen (the raw meat) and combining the two, it was the idea that we’re comfortable with having raw meat in the kitchen where it belongs but if we were to order something in a restaurant and have it come out raw we would be outraged.