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ELISHA COX ART
Beauty
'BEAUTY: THE BITTER TRUTH',(2020)
'Beauty: The bitter truth' was the beginning project when I returned from my exchange year in the University of Nicosia. As I mentioned before in 'The fat body' work I had and am on a journey of self acceptance and love. There are days when I do not feel amazing, and others when I think my body is fabulous but that is part of the journey of life. You cant always be happy and it's okay to have down days.
My practice revolves around experimentation. With a passion to produce I create many smaller experiments throughout the months which usually in the past result in a final project and concept. However, during these few months of being back in the UK, I found it really hard to adapt and feel comfortable in my new environment. I think this reflected on my practice and resulted in me coming up to the last few weeks up in till our assessments with no final work, yet many small experiments which I originally considered unfinished.
In the beginning of December 2019 I went to see Antony Gormley's exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, this was the first time I had ever saw Gormley's work physically and it changed the way I saw space in relation to my practice and the viewer. I began to view my work as a collection instead of individual artworks. This was when I began to experiment with how my artworks could speak to one another and guide the audience around to create an new open experience with my sculptures.
Finalizing within the Gallery space.
Speaking to one another in other ways, I was able to connect the works as a whole by simply positioning the two experimentation's most representative of the figure on either side of the hanging piece. (See the photos below) This allowed them to reflect the human figure and responses to those within the other experiments and finally the whole space as a whole. Experimenting with positioning of my experimentation's were important. Due to hanging and last-minute time scheduled I was unable to decide and organise the space as I would have hoped. In the future exhibition I would like to have a plan of my space much earlier in the project, therefore, so I will not suffer in the same way in which I did in this project. With these issues, I had to work around the space itself which was what I found
interesting, as humans we interact and work around space all the time without thinking, so consciously placing my experiments places made me reflect on this further and influenced me to consider ways in which I can emphasize to my audience their importance to the space surrounding them and the space in which they take up with their own body mass.
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