Like early pop artists, I have tapped into the rich seam of images that fill our everyday lives. The idea of returning high art back into an image of itself through the appropriation of everyday images. Through my work I wish to challenge the initial reaction and perception, often trying to confront it and question sexual content within the viewers mind.

Health instructions diagrams are reproduced into seductively large scale paintings. The images are sexually suggestive but are in no way offensive. Issues from menstruation to testicular cancer are confronted. My work can be seen to be quite flippant about critical subjects; I want people to be able to laugh at potentially serious topics, until social implications are realised. My work comes from a position which argues that the feminist political project is achieved or no longer relevant to ‘ordinary’ women and questions the unnecessary concern with the male gaze.

The materiality of the paintings glossy finish draws the viewer in further, the desire to look, heightened by the desire to touch. In photographs the work looks manufactured and perfect but up close they reveal themselves as laboriously handmade, with layers of household gloss paint, poured, painted and piped, some areas are rippled and pooled.

email: sophie_lewis@live.co.uk

한국 디자인 문화재단에서 아카데미를 하나 개설했습니다.

Design Academy : Summer Institute 2008

눈예 띄는 것은 'eye'지 편집자를 지냈던 뤽포이너 선생님이

한국에 와서 4박5일간 강연을 한다는 겁니다.

비주얼 컬처를 중심으로 자신의 책얘기도 겸해서 할 것 같습니다.

4박5일간 파주 출판도시에서 합숙하면서 절호의 기회를 잡으세요~

(전 회사원이라 가기 힘드네요 ㅠ ㅠ )

그럼 좋은 공부 많이들 하시길....

DDD 16 will be launched as
(a deferred) part of the group show WE curated by Jen Liu
on Thursday 24 July at 7pm at:

Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery
2712 S. La Cienega Blvd
Los Angeles
Tel: 310 837 1073

See http://www.lizabetholiveria.com

Followed by John Berger's 'Ways of Seeing'
(the TV series of the book of the TV series)
in the backroom of the MANDRAKE bar
(a few doors down) at 8pm