Bridie
My World, Your World, Our World
Bridie Mercer
My World Your World Our World
My work explores the connection between living and nonliving and organic and inorganic realms, through the play between natural and industrial processes. I have concentrated on photographic images of the natural world which have been processed through digital manipulation, block colour, and screen-printing.
The contrast of the opacity in the nature of the ink and the transparency in the support of the perspex/glass is explored in this project. Colour, process and layering are ideas that have played out in my work, looking closely at Pat Hanly’s and Andy Warhol’s approaches.
Fictionalising a place through the use of colour is apparent, as I have taken realistic landscapes and textures and digitally manipulated the colours to create a juxtaposition between the natural and the unnatural. The CMYK process of screen printing is where the work becomes interesting, in my opinion.
Using four separate layers of colour to create one image talks about how the image is constructed, and the fragments of my imagination from each ‘place’. Using the glass and perspex as a support for these screen prints is about putting these images into a ‘space’ and creating an atmosphere.
Bridie Mercer
My World Your World Our World
My work explores the connection between living and nonliving and organic and inorganic realms, through the play between natural and industrial processes. I have concentrated on photographic images of the natural world which have been processed through digital manipulation, block colour, and screen-printing.
The contrast of the opacity in the nature of the ink and the transparency in the support of the perspex/glass is explored in this project. Colour, process and layering are ideas that have played out in my work, looking closely at Pat Hanly’s and Andy Warhol’s approaches.
Fictionalising a place through the use of colour is apparent, as I have taken realistic landscapes and textures and digitally manipulated the colours to create a juxtaposition between the natural and the unnatural. The CMYK process of screen printing is where the work becomes interesting, in my opinion.
Using four separate layers of colour to create one image talks about how the image is constructed, and the fragments of my imagination from each ‘place’. Using the glass and perspex as a support for these screen prints is about putting these images into a ‘space’ and creating an atmosphere.
