Combining imagery and text

Richard Prince 'Dude Ranch Nurse'

Colin McMahon 'Victory over death'

Louise Hopkins '16 Cabinets'

Postcards by Atul Dodiya

Imants Tiller 'Act of God'

Joseph Beuys  'A.E.I.O.U'

I've been looking at ways that artists have combined images with text recently- this is  a small selecton of some of my favorites....

Film Posters of the 60's

Film posters of the sixties captured the turbulant essence of the decade. The cinematic ethos and icons of the era were represented in poster art.

Polish Poster Art

Polish film posters summerized the films content in highly stylised graphic terms, such as here in these posters by Tomaszewski.

Cuban Poster Art

Cuban Poster art contained powerful images that were windows into the story of Cuba. The revolutionary graphics  were beautifully designed, colourful and political. Poster design became a popular art form following the Cuban revolution. The images celebrated Cuban music, dance, film and sports and were distributed across the country.

All the journeys I have ever taken...

From memory I recorded all the journeys I have ever taken. I used charcoal and white chalk on black paper to make marks that I could blend and erase to create depth and a sense of history. I used weighty lines to indicate jouneys that I remember clearly or make often, and finer more delicate lines for those jouneys that I can barely remember.

Mapping Virtual Space

Using graphite powder as a base I made a drawing by working first with erasers, then charcoal sticks, pencil and white pastel to represent a visualisation of relationships and social networks.

Environmental Surface Mapping

I made drawings  on tracing paper that responded to an enviromental factor present on surfaces around the studio -such as dust, residue and scratches. I represented these elements in drawings using charcoal, biro, eraser, tippex and felt pens. I  layered the drawings and photocipied them to create these surface maps that capture different textures, shapes and pattern, enabling lots of variety in the outcomes due to the heirarchy of the drawings in the layering process.

Letterform Stencil Map

Using letterforms of different scales as templates, I built up ths image gradually to create a fictional stencilled map usingcharcoal, graphite powder and felt pen and focusng attention on mark- making and weight of line. The imagery incorporates signs, and bold geometric shapes to deverlop an interesting outcome.