Alice Uggles

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The second being the Penguin Student Design Competition.  I did an entry for the Steven Hawking’s “A Brief History of Time” book. It was a painting acrylic background with planets printed onto tracing paper and placed. I haven’t quite finished it but the deadline has yet to pass so I’m still good for time. I could just add the text and call it done now but I want to repaint a good few galaxies and rearrange the planets better for that. 

Live Briefs

I submitted work to two of the briefs the first being the V&A. I painted this piece for no real reason and I can't really tell you what I was thinking other than I wanted to paint a person, ice cream and then put them in space ? I haven't really done an oil painting since sixth form so I was glad with how it turned out.

I’m pleased with the prints and merch I created. I learnt a lot of new printing techniques which was cool. I spent a lot of time on my dissertation, so much so that I didn’t really leave a lot of time for the actual project, as I would have liked to try and make more of a point with my newfound printings abilities. It’s just such a rich subject it captured more of my attention. But I wanted maybe to make more of a statement about the effects of the commodification of activist art but in the end I just used my feminist images. I’m really proud of how they came out but I feel in the end I just created more of an homage to them rather than added my own voice in with my work.

I coloured the other eye of my Daruma Doll as I completed my goal, hopefully that brings me good luck. 

And liked the process so much I brought a bunch of blank tote bags and printed on those.

I even tried with the lino prints to see what would happen: 

After I finished printing everything I thought about moving them away from quick prints into commercial products. I printed out stickers with the images on, first paper stickers then stickers on clear plastic.

I then created badges, since badges have always been a part of protest culture. 

(Yes this an old toy from the early 2000s)

Then I got a little more ambitious and printed one on old t shirts of mine.

I purposefully kept the text on these posters quite vague, similarly to those “political” feminism shirts at high street retailers. They are saying or fighting for anything in particular, just a vague nod to the trendy discourse of the day. I wanted to do a similar thing to show how easy it is to jump from protest posters to the commercial realm. So I want to change the context from activism to commodification and the way I’m going to try and do that is through print.

First print!