Marianne Wilson - Photo Gallery
I am currently studying Photographic and Electronic Media at Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen. I work with a variety of new media including photography, film, typography, animation and installation.
Three times a week I work as a volunteer at a contemporary art gallery/ café where I have gained great insight into the work involved behind the scenes of running such a place. I've also had the chance to gain experience with some hands on work with curators’ projects.
Recently I've also worked with the National Theatre of Scotland providing a video piece for their “Extreme” project and currently I am putting together a “Zine” for a local club night called The Dirty Hearts Club at Club Snafu. In a sense I am always looking for ways to contextualise my practise out of the studio and into the real world.
For me the process involved in creating a piece of work is just as important, if not more important, than the final outcome. I often take an image and transform it into something that is unrecognisable as its original form.
My interests lie in the ever changing world that we live in. I am fascinated by places and objects that were once used but are now disregarded. It is a fact that the decomposition rate of the materials that objects are made from cannot keep up with the rapid demand of consumerism. My current work is based around finding a lost, or forgotten object or place, and telling its story through visual language and media.
Tuesday 6 Dec 2011
Some new photographs from Marianne
The portraits are taken with an analogue camera and then developed in the dark room. The people were photographed in a darkened room with only the light from a laptop screen to illuminate their faces. By using only the light from a laptop screen I am commenting on how the Internet is changing our behaviour and how technology has changed social consciousness over the years. The dramatic light is similar to the light used in the old Renaissance paintings. It is now been discovered that Renaissence painters used curved mirrors and lenses to paint an exact picture, for which they would need very strong lighting. The lighting on the face of the person being painted would have been refracted from a mirror. The renaissence painters used the technology available to them to improve their paintings. I am now expressing desire that modern culture has for technology whilst expressing the roots of technology in art.
The photograms are of circuit boards. A photogram is a photographic technique invented by Man Ray and adopted by the DaDa Artists. It involves placing the object (in this case a circuit board) onto light sensitive paper in the dark room and allowing the light exposure to make the picture. The image will come out as a negative. In this case I put the very small circuit into the negative enlarger which then enlarged the image of the circuit. I am currently using disregarded parts of technology to make artwork. The images are colourful, beautiful and interesting but they also express a paradox, that is the environmental impact these devices are having on the world.
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The Concept of Parallel Universes: Thursday 21 Apr 2011
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