Wednesday, 12 September 2012

Laura Oldfield Ford


She is best known for her politically active and poetic engagement with London as a site of social antagonism. Currently She is working on producing more then one hundred ink drawings chronicling the impact of regeneration on London. She does this by going on walks around abandoned areas and imagines them populated by the semiotic ghosts of failed utopias in the year 2013.

I like the way she uses colour in her work to help highlight certain areas in the picture. Also, the colour comes arcoss to be like garffette in some pictures where she has highlighted walls and even wrote words using the colour. As well as this the way she uses text in her images is interesting because they are mainly dates, times or just a couple of words, but this is just enough to have such a positive impact on the work making it even more interesting, making you think what does this mean, what makes these dates so important. Another thing I like about her work is that you feel as though you are inside the image as though you were actually there.
Her work is produced from zine. She also uses pen and acrylic to produce the work.
 

 

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