'Sporty Girl IV' by Felicity Beaumont

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By Signature Art Prize 2019/20
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Dimensions (HxWxD):

100 × 120 × 4 cm

Materials:

Acrylic and ink on canvas with a handmade, painted, pine frame

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2019
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This work is currently shortlisted for the Signature Art Prize 2019/20. If you wish to purchase this piece it will be available after the 13th February 2020. About the artist: Felicity Beaumont is a painter concerned with how we, as a contemporary society, relate to the body. Using imagery from social media, personal archive, publicly submitted imagery, pornography, film and pop culture, she crops, stylises and re-situates images of the body to inhabit the space of abstract painting. The colourful works she creates intend to explore the viewer/painting relationship, recognisability, abstraction, and discuss the significance of the body in contemporary society; focusing on subjects of diversity, sexualisation, stereotyping, male and female gaze, objectification, gender and identity. She is ultimately interested in how abstraction and the repositioning of the human form can address the socially constructed ideologies surrounding the body. About the work: My most recent practice has been a continuation of my interest in exploring the de-contextualisation of pornographic or ‘explicit’ material. In cropping and stylising these images I hope to reframe the female nude outside of conventional voyeurism and encourage an awkwardness in viewing the painted body from an unknown provenance. Colour has always been an integral element of my painting practice, in some works I have experimented with entirely unrealistic colour, pushing my subjects to the boundaries of figures, where they instead become patterns, landscapes, or glitched images, however often, I find the most interesting colours to employ are those true to life, but stretched in vibrancy, tone and depth in one direction or the other. Sporty Girl IV is often referred to as ‘the orange one’ and I’m sure this needs no explanation. Taking the colours of the source image, I delved into appropriation and reproduction techniques to explore possible palettes for the painting. The resultant work is a bold, vibrant piece which once again explores the landscape of the body, while also shows the admittance of medium, through the visible layering of paint splatters, brush strokes, drops of ink and delicate lines. In addition to the shapes and patterns within the subjects' figure, the bright off-white area which intersects the torso also shows the use of image reproduction in my creative process, hence I intend for the painting to discuss the presentation of pornographic imagery and examine reproduction and appropriation where these seemingly random light overlays portray areas of light created through photocopying and flash re-photographing.

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