Jeannie Brown
www.jeanniebrown.co.uk
@blackshedarts
Statement:
NOTHING HAS CHANGED, EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED.
The work I have submitted here entitled ‘Surveillance’, evolved from a body of work based in Birminghams inner city areas, this became a metaphor for contemporary society generally. I became particularly interested in Birminghams Brutalist buildings. At the time they were designed and built with a futuristic vision by architects and town planners based on the functionalist theory of social change to be utopian spaces of social interaction. These sixties concrete slab buildings have now been torn down to make way for new ideas in social change.
The painting portrays a lone figure who stands and looks down from a faceted and impossibly balancing, anthropomorphic structure on to a world that is going through massive changes, exacerbated by not only the recent events of the pandemic but also the long term problems that the world is facing of climate change and over population amongst other things.
www.jeanniebrown.co.uk
@blackshedarts
Statement:
NOTHING HAS CHANGED, EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED.
The work I have submitted here entitled ‘Surveillance’, evolved from a body of work based in Birminghams inner city areas, this became a metaphor for contemporary society generally. I became particularly interested in Birminghams Brutalist buildings. At the time they were designed and built with a futuristic vision by architects and town planners based on the functionalist theory of social change to be utopian spaces of social interaction. These sixties concrete slab buildings have now been torn down to make way for new ideas in social change.
The painting portrays a lone figure who stands and looks down from a faceted and impossibly balancing, anthropomorphic structure on to a world that is going through massive changes, exacerbated by not only the recent events of the pandemic but also the long term problems that the world is facing of climate change and over population amongst other things.
SURVEILLANCE
39.5 x 50cm
Oil on canvas
2018
39.5 x 50cm
Oil on canvas
2018