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Exhibition piece...

For our exhibition I have chose the theme Equality and Diversity as I felt it suited my current theme and work. I originally decided to create a piece especially for this exhibition, which was going to be a series of three prints, with the same image printed on each but in a yin/yang sort of fashion, where one would be upside down and the other right side up, and both images would be contrasting colours, in this case blue and pink to signify the differences between men and women, and how women should be treated like men. For the middle piece I added text down the centre, using words which were inspirational and what I thought were positive descriptions of women; Unique, Individual, Independent, Powerful, Strong, Diverse, Inspirational etc. Finally, to incorporate painting back into my work, I added some painted roses on the corners to add a touch of femininity to the prints. Overall I originally liked this as a piece overall, but felt conflicted about exhibiting it. 

That is when I started to look back at a previous print/collage piece that I had done. It had a black and white print of a woman's head with text over it and flowers covering her mouth. The text read 'Speak No Evil' and I really liked the contrast of this with the flowers over her mouth and the powerful meaning behind it. I wanted to create a piece which illustrated the struggles of women in a subtle yet artistic way, with the text suggesting that women have this expectation to not speak evil of others and to always be nice and respectful, and the mouth being covered by flowers further emphasises this by suggesting that women can often be restricted in what they can say around others. 

 Overall, I think I'm going to exhibit the second piece as I feel like the more I look at it, the more I like it as a piece. I'm probably going to use bull clips which will be Blu-tacked to the wall and then clip the print within the clips.

Exhibition piece 1
Exhibition piece 2

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