Wanted to combine the space of the studio and gallery.
'Artist Gardeners': Private client gardens, income but loves it. Design based projects inspired by fine art installations. Crossover between sculpture and gardening.
'Area 10': Timber shed abandoned by family business, made work in a 3 month cycle. Reused the art pieces. 8 years total. Process led and artist run. His work became more compromised by the fact that he was running the space.
'Noosphere': Moving installations, the conversation that took part inside the object was the product of the work.
'Pinholeye': Made pinhole cameras, put them in a vending machine, public took them and took a photograph then sent them back. The letters were almost the photographs as they described the moments perfectly.
'Arbonaughts': 'The desire machine', live installation. Practice evolved to be about site. About making a work that hooks an audience in. The kind of work that draws funding. Built up relationships with corporate companies that have property portfolios with spaces being empty for large periods of time.
Art happens for him in the funding proposals, it's where all the ideas come together. Why do you want to make the work?
A Fine art student at Sheffield Hallam University.
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.
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