My studio work aims to create a picture of my own humour, to evoke positive reactions. It is continually developing to align with my experiences and skills developed throughout my degree.

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I began by looking at the different types of  humour, and how they can interact with each other. I aim to raise the laughter beneath our funny bone, which is why I use deliberately contrasting imagery with the hope to bring this expression of laughter from my viewers.  I desire the release of utter freedom of this expression, and a feeling of positivity from environments that may otherwise be serious and controlling.

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This is something I integrate into my daily life. I hope to bring joy and laughter to the people I am around, as I understand that humour has an important role in the world. This can be applied to the art world too- the problem that comes within humour is to understand it, as it holds many difficult messages, yet as artists, we seem to use it often. For me, it feels essential to push away negative pressures, unhappiness, and general life stresses, and helps me put all of these into perspective to see a bigger picture.

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Through researching, I came across humour and artwork interacting during the First World War. This was a time of global distress, where arts would have been overlooked as inessential to civilisation. Dadaism came from these times, to both criticize political climate, generate conversation and to change traditional art values through satire- paving the way for accessible art. 

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My ideas for expression branch from daily attitude, atmosphere, practice and surroundings. Artists that have made this approach such as David Shrigley uses his daily attitude to express the issues around society with humour, using different techniques to combine and show his form of emotions, by combining painting and drawing shows cleverness yet laughter towards the viewers eyes.

 

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I aim to give viewers this positive experience with my work, as a break from societal pressures, where humour can be at the forefront of their minds, whether that be from a giant toaster, or a banana penis.