Danielle Rowles

Danielle Rowles BA (Hons) Fine Art and Art History 2020

My work represents my interest in satirical art and areas of exclusion (socially and figuratively) that are found within the art industry. With my portfolio, I want to show that you can be an artist whilst simultaneously addressing the negatives of the institutions, and I want to do this by creating aesthetically and visually pleasing artworks that use irony to understand the impact the art world has on everyone within it.

My medium interest tends to lie within mixed media and digital art and the limitless and unrestricted feel that these techniques have to them.

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A postcard of L.S. Lowry’s ‘An Island’, cutouts of his newly found ‘unseen pieces’ displayed amongst the scene. This calls his illicit behaviour to attention (with excessive use of his paintings of young, naked females), behaviour which is often ignored or excused.
A postcard of Marcel Duchamp’s “Fountain”, the actual fountain removed, creating a theme of negative space, playing with what we recognise and don’t recognise by shape, size and, in this case, artistic popularity.
A postcard of Egon Schiele’s ‘Nude Self-Portrait, Grimacing’, with handcuffs drawn on his perfectly displayed hands. This is a jab towards his fame despite have a illegitimate history, once being arrested for intercourse with an underage girl. Here he has been ‘caught in the act’.
A postcard of Damien Hirst’s ‘Away From the Flock’, with Bob and Roberta Smith’s ‘Make Art Not War’ incorporated in the form of an anagram. The lettering once used for a message of spreading art and not hatred now spells “MAKE ART ROT”. This is in reference to Hirst’s use of real livestock in his pieces, where animals are left to rot in the name of art.
A postcard of Gustav Klimt’s ‘The Kiss’, the subject matter removed from the image and graffiti style lettering on the front, questioning the elimination of space and what this means within a world-famous piece of work.
A postcard of Lucian Freud’s ‘A Self-Portrait‘, his eyes hidden beneath a fortune cookie fortune I received whilst creating this project. It reads “YOU WILL DISCOVER STRONG ARTISTIC INSTINCTS”, an ironic jab at Freud’s self-absorbed and hyper-sexualised artistic themes.
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