Daringly Dandyish
Exhibition No. 3
The inspiration behind this body of work comes from a personal interest to play with faces and bodies found in old guitar magazines from the nineties and early 2000s. The images I kept coming across were mostly male musicians with long hair, flaunting their guitars in heroic guitar solos and daring stance.
The aesthetic in those magazines that I grew up with was clearly led by the bad boys dominating the music scene. How these musicians portrait themselves and how the women who occasionally appeared there, were depicted is yet something I would like to explore in the future.
However, for this first series I decided to adventure into this manly aesthetic and glamourise it a bit using a colour palette that is found in the glam rock era: bright pinks and orange, metallic silver, glitter and sequins. Glam up and scroll down dear…
May 2021
Process
Listen up.
A short audio I made describing the origins and inspiration behind these series. Apologies for the rambling discourse.
Works
“Sweeping you off your feet", 2021. Collage, 12 x 9 in.
“Babe", 2021. Collage, 12 x 9 in.
“Spartan lights", 2021. Collage, 12 x 9 in.
“Volume Fuzz", 2021. Collage, 12 x 9 in.
“Regal camp", 2021. Collage, 12 x 9 in.
“Loosen up a bit", 2021. Collage, 12 x 9 in.
“Brash noisy", 2021. Collage, 12 x 9 in.
