Beatrice Boyle

Beatrice Boyle’s work is an important influence within this project due to the message she conveys within the concept and visual of her work.

The reason I chose to look at her work as the concept is very similar to what I wanted to portray within my work. Beatrice Boyle works on top of images to distort the original message that fashion and beauty advertisements convey. Altering the initial beauty perception. This is an aspect that I want to strong cover within my work. 

I will be hoping to experiment a similar technique, by creating my own fashion and beauty inspired images, this will able me to work on top of them images using various techniques, such as collaging, painting and drawing. 

Experimenting is key within this project, as I will need to work out which technique works best. 

Boyle said, “My work is about subverting the original meaning and context of an image. By defacing the image and to some extent destroying it, I create a new one. It is about the tension between the initial image and the final work.” (Patrick, 2010)

This project is to produce a series of artwork, which conveys the concept on the portrayal of image manipulation and retouching within beauty and fashion advertisements. Creating a fashion/beauty shoot influenced by editorial magazines and distorting the initial message to everyday consumers by collaging and destroying an image that society may see as the ideal and creating a new form of ‘perfect’.  Also by using the media, colour and texture to create the emotion that affects society due to image manipulation within the media. The idea is to expose emotion, create raw, textured and imperfect work that provokes a reaction. As everyone’s idea of perfect is different. A combination of skills will take place to produce the final outcomes, such as collaging with various images, layering materials and also layering digitally with Photoshop.