Previous AA2A Artist

Helen Cammock

Artform:
photography, print, text and performance
Year:
2017-18
Project summary:

I’m interested in exploring the relationship between text and image – and the idea of text as image. My practice is driven by language and I’m interested in semiotics and the development, interrogation and interruption of meaning. My recent poster series Shouting in Whispers uses screen print techniques to create posters that make direct and questioning propositions to the viewer. My practice works across a range of mediums (video, photography, printmaking and performance) and the fragmentation of narratives is a key component. So this would be something that I would be interested in further developing through a series of printed textual conversations – mine with an audience, or perhaps through fragments, conversations with others – historical figures or with people I know.

I’m also interested in exploring the photographic image through deconstruction and fragmentation in the printing process; in exploring the viewing position of the photographic image through the representation of the image through screen printing. Through working with the enlargement or reduction of the pixel you can disrupt the way the image is viewed – the viewing distance, clarity, distortion, manipulation and therefore the potential for a shift in meaning as well as aesthetic. 

I’m interested in exploring the relationship between text and image – and the idea of text as image. My practice is driven by language and I’m interested in semiotics and the development, interrogation and interruption of meaning. My recent poster series Shouting in Whispers uses screen print techniques to create posters that make direct and questioning propositions to the viewer. My practice works across a range of mediums (video, photography, printmaking and performance) and the fragmentation of narratives is a key component. So this would be something that I would be interested in further developing through a series of printed textual conversations – mine with an audience, or perhaps through fragments, conversations with others – historical figures or with people I know.

I’m also interested in exploring the photographic image through deconstruction and fragmentation in the printing process; in exploring the viewing position of the photographic image through the representation of the image through screen printing. Through working with the enlargement or reduction of the pixel you can disrupt the way the image is viewed – the viewing distance, clarity, distortion, manipulation and therefore the potential for a shift in meaning as well as aesthetic. 

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