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Jerwood Drawing Prize 2009
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Has anyone seen this? If so what did you think? Did the right person win?

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Last reply by Peter Goggins Oct 28, 2009.

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Website: http://sophiederrickart.com

Relationship status: in a relationship

College / University: University of Leeds

Program / Degree: Fine Art

Member type: Artist

If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?: Painting, Photography

I am...: a practicing artist and an MA student at Wimbledon College of Art, where I am aiming to enhance my practice and gain new opportunities.

About my artwork: My work uses painting and photography to manipulate and mask. For the last 4 years I have been using my body as a canvas by painting directly onto my face, printing this image and then painting over it. This process of layering painting and photography stage by stage displaces my 'self' and converts my body into an object upon which the paint can shine. This idea of combining painting and photography, layering, masking, and objectification has led me to experiment with painting directly on to other objects (such as porcelain figures, taxidermy, and household paraphernalia) to see what effect this has on the object and how the qualities of paint can morph an ordinary object into something very different.

Artists I like: Levi Van Veluw, Frank Auerbach, Glenn Brown, Jenny Saville, Gerhard Richter, Francis Bacon,

Interests: Painting, taking photographs, fashion, history, travelling, antiques, vintage shops

Centre of the artworld:: nowhere and everywhere

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Jerwood Drawing prize 2009

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Check out the Jerwood Drawing Prize at Jerwood Space, Bankside London. There are some amazing and imaginative drawings on display, ranging from embroidery, biro, marker pen, laser cut and acrylic drawings, made on bones, floor boards, newspapers and album covers.… Continue

Posted on October 22, 2009 at 21:30

Pop Life, Art in a material world.

Today I went to the ‘Pop Life’ exhibition at the Tate Modern and was really impressed by it. It totally showed how artists like Andy Warhol bridged the gap between Fine Art and popular culture. I particularly enjoyed seeing all of Warhol’s ad campaigns he took part in, like his Vidal Sassoon (shown above),… Continue

Posted on October 22, 2009 at 20:00 — 2 Comments