Roisin Verdon's Page

Program

BA (Hons) Visual Arts Practice

Member type

Artist, Gallery

If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?

Conceptual, Drawing, Painting, Photography

I am...

An artist on a journey of self discovery

About my artwork

Self Exposure

Originally this project focused on the freedom of female sexuality and the distance travelled in achieving this liberation. I focused primarily on pornography and the implementation of the concept of reclaiming the images and transforming woman as object into woman enjoying her sexuality. The later part of the project I have shifted the focus from woman in general to myself as both woman and sexual being. I came to understand that I was hiding behind generalization and started to basically get honest with myself and my art. I read somewhere along the line that it wasn’t really porn that was the problem when it came to women and their objections, but their own insecurities when comparing themselves. This rang true for me so I decided to start a log or private diary as such containing the dialogue between myself and the porn and what it brought up for me. This is work still in progress. However, as a result of the conversation so far I have come to understand that how I feel about myself both physically and mentally fluctuates in relation to my self-esteem. The paintings that I have produced as a result of my findings to date incorporate several elements that I have found to be accurate. They are images of myself arranged in several sexual positions, the concept behind this being the declaration of my sexuality and its existence regardless of self-worth. Using watercolours as a metaphor for the temporary state of my sexuality I am highlighting the fragile status of my self-image. Protection and effort is needed in order to maintain. The stained affect of the application denotes a double barrel analogy. On one hand it can be construed that the stains represent the shame that has been linked to female sexuality and indeed my own over the years, shame and guilt handed down and passed around, and on the other it can be interpreted that these images are rising from the stains, gaining form, breaking free. It all depends on the identification

Artists I like

Edward Hopper, Ghada Amer,

The centre of the artworld is

nowhere and everywhere

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