Georgia Smallshaw

Artist Statement

My work is a considered exploration of combining photography with digital manipulation and drawing with painting as they are successful techniques for me to use within my art practice, which gives me the opportunity to fully explore and experiment with different methods.

I aim to achieve meaningful, emotive pieces of work from my experimentations, leading to a raised awareness of the controversial aspects of my environment. My process involves the found image as a trigger to ignite thoughts and feelings. Distortion is the main influence for my work and experimenting with digital media has helped me discover that manipulating imagery is a successful process for me to use.

I create work that I feel the audience may be able to relate to understand and create an opinion or feel from viewing the Art that I produce.

My work opens up a further discussion about contemporary technology, the awareness of mental health and how serious it is in this present time.

 I aspire to make the audience question my personality as an artist and the feelings I am trying to express through the work. I feel that my work responds to and is positively influenced by the teachings of Liz Atkin and Chuck Close who work in different spheres of art practice.