‘Translated
Thoughts’ is the final show for all Fine Art Third Years at Lincoln
University, taking place inside the Fine Art spaces. These five gifs are
being exhibited together under the title
‘FILE:///C:/HOLLY/BOWLER/ART/FINAL_EXHIBIT/ENVIRONMENTALCOLLECTIVE.GIFS’
but are all individual pieces of the own right.
The exhbit starts on the 31st of May 2014, ending on the 16th of June 2014.
I
was taking part in a workshop about Art and Politics and was introduced
to the art of Animated Gifs. I found that making a Gif worked better
for me than some of the other things I was doing at that time, it meant I
could express my point more successfully, and it was a new challenge
for me. In the 2011 I created some posters and mailed them to people in
different places in England. North and South. In the hope to get some
back with people’s opinions of the work and its primary message.
Animated Gifs remind me of Mail Art, Animated Gif’s being what I believe to be the modern society’s take on Mail Art. Rather than sending them on via the postal service, I can do it from home from my Email.
My work here is hand drawn on paper, the drawings are then scanned onto a computer. Using the original pencil image I can then change the colours, with these works I have edited it and left it with these define black lines on a white surface. Gifs are sometimes very easy to make, anyone can make a Gif. You can scan anything onto your computer, or you can take screen shots from something already on the internet and animate that.
I don’t need to add text to the work as the Gifs speak for themselves. Gifs do what I want them to do, they are a powerful form of expression. ‘Ice Lolly’ is eighty seven hand drawn images individually scanned and animated into life. Combining traditional drawing techniques with a modern take on Mail Art brings together the old and the new. I find them challenging, exciting and very good and doing what I want them to do. Provoking thought and enlightening people to certain Environmental Issues we face today
Animated Gifs remind me of Mail Art, Animated Gif’s being what I believe to be the modern society’s take on Mail Art. Rather than sending them on via the postal service, I can do it from home from my Email.
My work here is hand drawn on paper, the drawings are then scanned onto a computer. Using the original pencil image I can then change the colours, with these works I have edited it and left it with these define black lines on a white surface. Gifs are sometimes very easy to make, anyone can make a Gif. You can scan anything onto your computer, or you can take screen shots from something already on the internet and animate that.
I don’t need to add text to the work as the Gifs speak for themselves. Gifs do what I want them to do, they are a powerful form of expression. ‘Ice Lolly’ is eighty seven hand drawn images individually scanned and animated into life. Combining traditional drawing techniques with a modern take on Mail Art brings together the old and the new. I find them challenging, exciting and very good and doing what I want them to do. Provoking thought and enlightening people to certain Environmental Issues we face today
'Ice Lolly,' (2014)
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