ARTWORK DETAILS

Mia McConnell
Exquisite Minds Drawing
A series of 9 x A3 Pencil drawings on paper and acrylic sheet

ARTIST STATEMENT

Don’t we all desire to know and understand ourselves? But to understand our identities, we must bring our unconscious: fears, obsessions and questions, into consciousness through visual experience. I synthesised my divergent concept, through a contemporary context, in my media choice of artist, flip book, the referencing of real-life imagery and exploitation of traditional Exquisite Corpse. Therefore, this evolved aesthetic acts as the vehicle that invites dialogue between my artwork, the audience and myself. Ultimately, repressed psychological processes are made conscious as they are decoded, through a personal context, as viewer’s prior knowledge is appealed to.

ARTWORK PROCESS

Using pencil I drew three separate images ensuring to maintain similarity of shape to ensure they combined seamlessly. I then photocopied all compositions in variations of colour and either on a combination of paper and acrylic.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Mia McConnell