Laura Poff

white acrylic on black card, 40 x 40 cm

Pin holes on black A1 card

Such an amazing art and music festival met so many fantastic artists. I was also a finalist for the screaming pope prize!! So thankful that I was apart of an incredicle art festival

2015

Handmade paper casts made with tissue paper

My pieces in my classes 3rd year Sculpture and Combined Media exhibition, particle. 

https://www.facebook.com/particlelsad?fref=ts 

The trans-formative nature of materials is also present in Poff's work. Though derived from the same source, she use's dissimilar materials to showcase how an artwork is altered due to its components. Each piece becomes subjective to the viewer’s perception.

Using tissue paper and water I made paper pulp which I then made a cast with. 

Photography manipulations

Once this process is complete, I plan on taking a paper cast of it. 

This photography was taken by a close friend and fellow artist Shauna Harris

Fundamentally, the relation between art and the unconscious is at the core of my practice. I aim to reach out to the viewer’s imagination whilst expressing my own subconscious mind. The surrealists advocated the technique of automatism as a gesture of the hand, I use it as a gesture of the mind. Using video and photography, I want to give the audience an insight into the process in which these drawings are created.

I took pictures of trees and manipulated them so that they would resemble ink blot (Rorschach) tests. My work deals with the unconscious mind and i want people to engage with my work.

The photograph was taken by my friend and fellow artist Shauna Harris.