Sophie Fox
Sophie Fox’s practice is an ode to both current and past aspects of mainstream popular and celebrity culture. She creates work using a ‘tongue in cheek’ approach, allowing ‘throw-away everyday sayings’ to inspire and reinforce her creations; therefore also injecting recognisable qualities from the viewer’s everyday existence into the pieces that she develops.
The Pop Art movement and Andy Warhol’s comment in particular about how ‘Everybody will be famous for 15 minutes’, is decribed as quite possibly being the root source of where her interest in popular culture started. Installation, textiles and print-making are used as a way for her her to make work, whilst sociological terms such as ‘materialism’, ‘instant gratification’ and ‘the supermarket of style’ all allow for the theme of consumerism to play heavily into the progression of her thoughts and ideas.
The Pop Art movement and Andy Warhol’s comment in particular about how ‘Everybody will be famous for 15 minutes’, is decribed as quite possibly being the root source of where her interest in popular culture started. Installation, textiles and print-making are used as a way for her her to make work, whilst sociological terms such as ‘materialism’, ‘instant gratification’ and ‘the supermarket of style’ all allow for the theme of consumerism to play heavily into the progression of her thoughts and ideas.
The Concept behind my work is drawn from the idea that in the book, the main character Howard W. Campbell Jr only completes the actions he does in order to ‘save his own skin’. Playing on this phrase, I wanted to create a textile piece which embodies serious elements of war and captivity capturing the wearing down and withering of the body, whilst also allowing a more dry-humoured approach through the play on words with the catchy saying ‘Saving your own skin’. By working in various fabrics as well as embroidery and paint, I am creating an interpretive ‘faux skin’ robe. Displaying it with the church will allow for the sometimes selfish acts committed in the story to be forgiven by God, as the story begins and concludes with the lead character seeking redemption regarding his actions during and leading up to The Second World War.