Tinsel is a london based artist (originally from Leamington Spa). She works with acrylic on canvas, photography, mixed media and text, to create a humorous personal commentary on what it is to be an artist in the noughties.
Statement
I work primarily with painting, and also with photography, sculpture, text and drawing. My practice is based on art itself, people's ideas and perceptions about what art is, the 'artworld', and my own relationship to the artworld. Its basically about me being an artist. I like to paint, and to use wordplay and humour to express what it is to be an artist, I hope that it can be something that people could identify with.
I like highlighting the mundane and everyday aspects of living, and see those things as an important part of my own practice as an artist. The work is like a personal narrative or commentary. Each small aspect is part of a 'bigger' illustration, comic strip, or storybook, which describes me being an artist.
I like working in an immediate and quite simplistic style, which I feel is the honest and direct way to express my ideas. I use both imagery and text in my paintings. There are slogans, which can be observations, or my own thoughts and opinions, things I have overheard or read in Newspapers. The subjects of the slogans all relate to the recurring themes in my practice, and are expressed with a tongue in cheek style humour.
My work is a self portrait, it is about being an artist, loving painting, and about my own relationship with the artworld.
Statement
I work primarily with painting, and also with photography, sculpture, text and drawing. My practice is based on art itself, people's ideas and perceptions about what art is, the 'artworld', and my own relationship to the artworld. Its basically about me being an artist. I like to paint, and to use wordplay and humour to express what it is to be an artist, I hope that it can be something that people could identify with.
I like highlighting the mundane and everyday aspects of living, and see those things as an important part of my own practice as an artist. The work is like a personal narrative or commentary. Each small aspect is part of a 'bigger' illustration, comic strip, or storybook, which describes me being an artist.
I like working in an immediate and quite simplistic style, which I feel is the honest and direct way to express my ideas. I use both imagery and text in my paintings. There are slogans, which can be observations, or my own thoughts and opinions, things I have overheard or read in Newspapers. The subjects of the slogans all relate to the recurring themes in my practice, and are expressed with a tongue in cheek style humour.
My work is a self portrait, it is about being an artist, loving painting, and about my own relationship with the artworld.
