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Snapshot 14: Artist Statement by Breena Sinclair
Breena Sinclair is a BA (hons) Graphic Design and Illustration at LJMU. This is an artist statement describing her process.
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Welcome To Earth 2.0 is a project I've been working on for the past 3 years and I find myself constantly reaching to create bigger and grander things for it. I think at its core, this world I've created begs to be visualised in the most garish and confrontational way possible, there's no room for class or subtly.
The first artworks created in 2024 were the mixed media prints. I took pieces from magazines and prints, stitching them to well-known paintings. I scanned each piece and played around with materials including rhinestones, embroidery, etc. I eventually felt that a digital approach would work best as I wanted the aliens to have a lot of detail. I love velvet paintings, how ugly and kitsch they often are, so I pulled inspiration from their style of shading (a kind of overly smooth, airbrushed look), trying to mimic it.
The clay bust was a fun challenge as I'd never made anything this big using air-dry clay. I had to make sure the model wouldn't be too heavy and fall over because of the imbalance of weight. So, I used a wooden block as the base for her body and had a pole stuck in its centre, which made the perfect structure to make her elongated neck, and more importantly, hold up her enormous head.
The painted jacket is an offshoot of the Birth of Venus (2024) mixed media piece. While creating the print, I was reminded of the posters for those scary but raunchy B-movies from the 70's. I have a soft spot for low budget poster design, and I was inspired to make my own. This was my first time painting on denim, and I was so excited to get started that I completely ignored that the existence of fabric paint and went straight in with acrylic, hence why it's so cracked. Despite this, I still really like it, and I hope it gives off a vintage feel, similar to the posters that inspired it.
Despite the vast use of materials I worked with during this project, the sketches I produced throughout the past few years that document the aliens first designs to their latest, are my favourite pieces. I find them so therapeutic to sketch because they're never supposed to look perfect; it doesn't matter how contorted and strange they look because that's what makes them so cool. Despite how bizarre they are, they always carry this sense of confidence and style to them, and I think there's something really endearing about that. I encourage you all to have a go and draw some freaky, sexy aliens!
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