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Virus Duplication 3, 2020. Ink, acrylics and oil pastels on paper, 76cm x 60cm.

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Virus Duplication 2, 2020. Ink, acrylics and oil pastels on paper, 76cm x 60cm.

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Virus Duplication 1, 2020. Ink, acrylics and oil pastels on paper, 76cm x 60cm.

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Duplication series (Virus Duplication 1, Virus Duplication 2, Virus Duplication 3). 

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Start of my third piece, ‘Facial Duplication’ . I used the same colour and pattern scheme as the microscopic abstract artworks in a sculptural form. I wanted to make a suggestive but also visual interference.  

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The start of my second artwork, ‘untitled’. I used salt, ink and water in the first layer (can be seen in the sloe up pic) and started the second layer of acrylic 

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Final piece titled ‘Shiny Duplication’, 2020. I wanted to create a multilayered decorative and disorienting almost bejewelled bug. To do this, i first used blue inks and green inks with water to form the shape of a coronavirus cell duplicating at a micro level. This was followed by a pink, yellow and orange acrylic layer, that i then decorated with the use of oil crayons. 

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I wanted to focus more on the assemblage of colours and patterns and used a more reductive technique towards ink and acrylic paint. The colour scheme was inspired Jana Euler’s application of bright complimentary colours. I’m thinking of either adding more layers and creating overlapping forms that appear decorative and disorienting with glitter and modelling paste or adding layers of illustrations like Chris Ofili Afrodizzia 1996 

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Here’s a process of the layering of paint; modelling paste, acrylic and ink to create the coronavirus cell. I’m focusing on the mediating between layering, figuration and abstraction 

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Inspired by Jana Euler’s social realism i started to paint a victim of coronavirus in harsh gestural brushstrokes and colours 

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Inspired by Jana Euler’s relationship between art, the object and the gesture i explored ways to investigate the Coronavirus cell. I worked with ideas of excess, saturation and texture to show the current conscious and the notion of beauty vs grotesque. I turned towards other artists such as Ernst Haeckler and John Armleder to help guide this investigation. 

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Experiments for my next body of work inspired by Jenny Saville’s harsh surface texture 

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planning my next body of work 

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Planning my next body of work 

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Planning my next body of work 

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planning my next body of work 

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Experiment of disrupting the sexualised female body on social media, inspired by Euler and Saville’s practice