Laura Yuile
(26 years old. Born in United Kingdom. Lives in: Glasgow)
Glasgow School of Art
My work is created through repetitive, time consuming methods of working; a fetishization of labor. I view such activities as a form of self-control. I am interested in this idea of the body, and its instincts, desires and obsessions, being 'disciplined' by techniques of control. These ideas are explored alongside my own personal struggle to control my work, and the 'disorder' I confront myself with. One aspect of my work attempts to control another; new work consumes old; a constant dismantling and reassembling of meaning and order. Through an exploration of how 'meaning' is injected into one's life through personal rituals and rules, I have been considering how these beliefs and attitudes can be expressed through 'style'.
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Work of art I would like to make
If chosen for the 4 New Sensations, I would like to further explore ideas of the individual becoming lost in a mess of bodily, and material excesses. I am interested in how individuals create a meaning for their life, and what happens when these personal beliefs and attitudes become more extreme, and begin to consume the individual.Through an exploration of cultural appropriation, new age fads, and 'urban tribes', I want to create sculpture and collage work using everyday, throwaway materials such as emery boards, that on the surface suggest a light-hearted control of one's personal appearance, but that are constructed in such a way that a strong and immediate emotional reaction is evoked in the viewer - one that points towards ideas of control on the grander scale. I want to push myself into more extreme levels of self control and discipline, in regards to the construction of the work; and push the sculptural and collage works towards more absurd levels of contradiction, chaos, and blurred meaning. In regards to the theme, I want to explore the possibility of personal rules and rituals becoming more extreme; and this then sending relationships between the body, and the clutter of 'stuff' that surrounds it, further out of control, towards a total chaos of meanings. |
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My Artworks (6)
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