Wednesday Visitor - Jasmir Creed

Jasmir Creed

Manchester based artist, Jasmir Creed identifies her work as expressive mark making and collaged imagery. Working with the Tate Gallery in 2016 on the exhibition, "Who Am I?" using Liverpool to make physco geography. This reminded me of the carousel project where we experimented with physco geography which is where we use a specific location, such as a district or a building as a subject matter to create art. I really liked this method as I had already done it before in my previous travels.

"Smog"

This one piece of hers resonated with me because of the meanings and techniques involved. method wise she's used inks and watercolour here which  are some of my favourite mediums due to their fluidity and sketch appearance. She actually chose these because of the subject matter in the painting, using liquids because of the water in the scene. I also do similar methods when choosing my mediums where I'll use ones that coordinate with the meaning. For example, I painted a coffee shop scene using only coffee as my medium, which also added a connection with the scent too. Creed's work includes well though out meanings behind them. Within this piece above she has  chosen London as her area to base her series off due to the pollution of our capital. She wanted to show how our environment is crumbling around us with the similar situation of our social economy. For example by including the famous Shard, a symbol of power and capitalism, she has shown how the richer are getting richer due to huge investments in the wrong sectors. This was a great subject to get across in her work especially because I studied sociology and the points she was aiming to get across made more sense after knowing more about social inequality.

I feel this opened me up to using more of my previous studies because they can actually help to give more social background that the viewer can relate to as well. However, I would have used a different colour pallet for the smog in the background instead of yellow because it gives it more of a happier atmosphere.

All her work actually ties together with the sociological concept of Marxism, due to them originally creating the term "physco geography".

I also found one of her other methods to be a great way of research. She explained that at different times of the day she'll go back to the  same location and record either by photography or sketches what she observes. I feel that I have already experimented in this way before with photography, more of the light changes, so I could take it further into sketching what I observe. My plan is to now go down to St Georges Hall at different times to spot changes in the light and crowds surrounding it.