REBECCA EDWARDS

Artist Statement

I describe myself as an artist who explores freedom throughout my art work, never limiting myself to a certain style of material, often choosing the material I want to work with in the moment. I enjoy taking a medium that I once wasn’t good at and practicing and improving until I am satisfied, such as water colours, crochet, and clay. I enjoy learning techniques and methods to allow me to improve with these materials. My work can vary from gothic and grungy to cartoon and colourful, with inspiration from traditional style tattoos to 90’s cartoons. While once a perfectionist in my artwork, I moved away from this, and now focus my artwork on what makes me feel good while creating the piece.

These attributes not only work efficiently when producing art for myself but also when facilitating workshops with others. The freedom of being able to adapt my style and choice of material allows for a person centred approach throughout the workshops, which is an important element to me.

My latest project ‘Expression vs Profession’ is created using different needles and different techniques on fake plastic skin using a tattoo gun and tattoo ink. The piece highlights how although tattoos are becoming more accepted in the work place, there are still certain professions that it is looked frowned upon. This piece aims to spread awareness that tattoos are a form of self expression and should not be discriminated against in a place of work as in my opinion, they do not affect how an individual present themselves/preforms within their career. I hope to change the public’s perception of tattoos by creating this art work.