1. IDENTITY
5TH YEAR PROJECT 2013

2. WHAT DOES IDENTITY MEAN TO YOU?

3. HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE SEEN BY OTHERS?

4. WHAT MESSAGE WOULD YOU LIKE TO COMMUNICATE?

5. WHAT METHODS CAN WE USE TO REPRESENT OURSELVES?
IMAGE?
TEXT?
MUSIC?
DANCE?
FASHION?

6. WHAT REPRESENTS YOU?

7. Sterotypes

8. CINDY SHERMAN

9. American photographer. Challenges stereotypes of female identity
CINDY SHERMAN
Born 1954
American photographer.
Challenges stereotypes of female identity

10. BARBARA KRUGER

11. Barbara Kruger Born 1945 American artist Conceptual artist.
She uses black and white photographs overlaid with often red text to confront issues of power, money, consumerism and sexism.

12. memory

13. JOSEPH CORNELL

14. Joseph Cornell
1903 – 1972
American Assemblage Artist
Used found object; collage & montage to create art works (2D & 3D) that relate to collecting things and memory and nostalgia

15. LUCAS SAMARAS

16. LUCAS SAMARAS Born 1936 Greek artist
Interested in self-representation.
Most well known for his photographic work and his Identity Boxes.
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17. place

18. ED FAIRBURN

19. Welsh artist, born in Cardiff
His work combines topography (map-making) and the geography of our facial lines to create really interesting images which bring to mind a sense of belonging to a place.
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20. Robert Ellis

21. Robert Ellis Born 1929 New Zealand artist
His paintings address issues surrounding New Zealand’s identity.
He combines European and Pacific influences in his work.
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22. Profession/hobbies

23. JIM DINE

24. JIM DINE Born 1935 American artist
Originally a member of the Pop Art movement (Andy Warhol; Roy Lichtenstein), he has returned to focusing his efforts on drawing and his recent work centers on studies of objects from his everyday life such as his tools.

25. Combining image & text

26. FLORIAN NICOLE

27. FLORIAN NICOLE Born 1987 French graphic designer & illustrator
Creates mono-chromatic portraits which have an energetic unfinished quality and combine elements of text, collage and image
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28. SHIRIN NESHAT

29. SHIRIN NESHAT
Born 1957
Iranian born artist who now lives and works in New York
Most well known for her film, video and photography work.
Her work address the social, political and psychological dimensions of women in contemporary Islamic countries.
She mixed photographic images with Arabic text.
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30. Movement/energy

31. DAVID AGENJO

32. David Agenjo Born 1977 Spanish artist working and living in London
He is a figurative artist who is concerned with colour and texture in his paintings
He starts each painting on top of the palette he used for his last, which gives interesting surface texture.
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33. SIMON BIRCH

34. SIMON BIRCH
Born 1975
British painter now living and working in Hong Kong.
Concerned with capturing movement of figures.
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35. family

36. ALICE NEEL

37. ALICE NEEL 1900-1984 American painter
Most famous for her portraits of friends family and lovers.
Strong loose expressive brushmarks.
Strong use of vivid colour and line,
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