Week 9

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Graham Dolphin

http://www.grahamdolphin.co.uk/

Born in Stafford 1972.

Psychedelic Music - randomised in the exhibition (screens laid out in a hexagon).
Art was text heavy, wasn’t colourful (books were reproduced in black and white).
Didn’t know anything about art but knew a lot about film.
Early 80s unrated VHS/ record covers were an inspiration.
The vessels - how he chose what to buy (records).
To make the audio tapes more special he made his own covers for them and coppied all the details from the original record.
Philip Glass - inspiration!
1991-1994 BA Fine Art Painting.
Reference to Damien Hirst - Something wrong about it (Shark piece).
Vogue work - drilled into, burnt, screws etc (degree show) got him his first group show.
The magazines are sculptural objects ‘Everything In Vogue’ - book by Graham Dolphin. Acted as a full stop to that body of work.
Kate Moss - 1500 images in 60 seconds.
Drawn back to records - Vessels that hold culture like the magazines.
26 song lyrics scratched into the record surface, repetition and relentlessness to the process. Loved this body of work!
Shift from mass produced to precious - object to gallery piece.
Kurt Cobain Bench - (recreation) it became a shrine to him, the object gets renewed, people attach emotions to an object.
Series based on last notes to run alongside the bust and bench work.
Pillow Rock - Bob Marley inspired, “out of all the rocks this is the one”.
Drawings of last views exhibited along with the respective objects.
‘All That I Am’ - every artist in his itunes library, wanted to see what that would look like physically.
Did one similar piece on human emotions. Favourite Piece!

http://www.grahamdolphin.co.uk/

http://www.grahamdolphin.co.uk/

http://www.grahamdolphin.co.uk/

After looking at Graham Dolphin's other work on his website and on Artsy I came across a few new artists whose work I really liked:

Jay Giroux

https://www.artsy.net/artist/jay-giroux

https://www.artsy.net/artist/jay-giroux

https://www.artsy.net/artist/jay-giroux

Ashleigh Sumner

https://www.artsy.net/artist/ashleigh-sumner

https://www.artsy.net/artist/ashleigh-sumner

https://www.artsy.net/artist/ashleigh-sumner

Martin Durazo

https://www.artsy.net/artist/martin-durazo

https://www.artsy.net/artist/martin-durazo

https://www.artsy.net/artist/martin-durazo

Word To Mother

https://www.artsy.net/artist/word-to-mother

https://www.artsy.net/artist/word-to-mother

https://www.artsy.net/artist/word-to-mother

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Artist Biography

Vikki Stevens is an artist born in 1994 in the UK, where she lives, studies and works. When growing up she always had an interest in the arts and is currently furthering her artistic passion at Sheffield Hallam University on the BA Fine Art course.

Vikki experiments with many different techniques and materials to achieve the desired effect. She enjoys working with ink, magazines (collage), acrylic paint and with various materials (for example Nylon) and loves to combine different elements to create abstract images often with vivid colours. The centre of her work is herself and how she experiences the world, usually trying to communicate concerns she has for example concerns about body image and the media’s portrayal of women.

Vikki’s work is constantly developing and changing as she works to communicate her feelings in her work, her most recent series of work were collages using entirely women’s fashion magazines combined with other materials to communicate her feelings about her body image and how she sees these flawless women in the magazines. What stands out about her work is how she pulls many different and sometimes materials considered to be rubbish or everyday items to create work rather than traditional artist materials (e.g. oil paint).

The main artists who influence Vikki’s work are: Barbara Kruger, Gerhard Richter, Yago Hortal, Anthony Gerace and Steve Salo. All of these artists in some way either use collage or paint to communicate about issues or feelings which is the aim of Vikki’s work.