Emily Mowat has recently graduated from Nottingham Trent University. She is another artist who was selected for the 2014 Catlin Exhibition. Emily says her work ' exists as a commodity while chronicling artistic behaviour and its influence on popular culture'.
Mowatt(2014) Bellini(After Cipriani)
There are echoes of Walter Benjamin and his views on the mass-produced piece of art. Also perhaps some reference to the Dadaist tradition of 'readymades' where an existing piece is given new life and meaning by being presented differently.
The first post in this Major Study blog was of some experiments I was doing with the construction of a 'Cabinet of Curiosities' The idea was to make little exhibits of each element or object I had used in the making of one of my multiple images. I have left this idea behind for a while, but still think it might work. It dissects the whole final piece into its tiny individual components, showing the physical 3D parts of a digital 2D piece.
Mowat's piece is similar in the way it presents physical objects, the peaches, in front of the flat print.
It does make you stop and rethink what you are looking at and what you are seeing.
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