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Sophie Butcher
MA Contemporary Visual Culture
I am doing an MA in Contemporary Visual Culture- I choose to focus on the internet and popular culture, feminism, and tropes of femininity, whilst exploring themes of nostalgia, trauma, and cultural capital. My work is a series of multimedia mark making - primarily hand embroidery and felt-tip - that has been produced over the last nine months. I work on small pieces of fabric using traditional embroidery methods, however, the results deliberately disrupt the traditional aesthetic of a neat and orderly embroidery sampler. I like to work with felt-tip pens as they have a juvenile/slap-dash/”doodle” quality that challenges opinion on what constitutes as ‘real art’. I refer to my embroideries as visual diary entries, as they depict and narrate my innermost thoughts and feelings, often in a nonlinear format and written in the vernacular. I identify as a millennial and include popular culture references within my work, I believe it is important for my work to be read in this context as it influences my aesthetic, style of communication and use of language. This series accompanies my dissertation: Girls at Night on the Internet: A Discourse on Cultural Capital and the Act of Sharing in relation to Art, Women, and the Internet.
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