Celebration of the Feminine

Notes from the tutorial today with Sarah, Ian and Paul.
Silkscreen printing Theresa May (now with gorilla head - Guerrilla Girls ref.) and also an anonymous body wearing underwear for my miniprint examples were not well received. My intention was (and is) to produce a fun and colourful personal commemoration of the female form, rather than a perception that my work has 'Benny Hill or Carry On film' style undertones. All the creative work I produce is not intended to be superficial or derogatory nor offer a subliminal feminist message but to convey, using drawing and print, my own interpretation of what it is to be a female. 

The intention for my future work will be to create a series of female portraits, looking at famous and iconic women, created using silkscreen, relief print and digitally with my drawing skills as the thread running through the work. My reference will include Master drawings (Italian Renaissance) and a combination of vibrant colour and pattern expressing female forms in a looser, more energetic manner - Matisse, Schiele, Klimt etc.


" We use humor to prove that feminists can be funny… We could be anyone; we are everywhere".


Taken from 'The Guerrilla Girls’ Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art'. 1998