Poppy Smith
Fine Art
My work seeks to navigate my relationship with my own identity with a fundamental focus on the psychological, physical and relational impact of my height/stature on my cognitive relationship with self through self-portraiture.
Final year project
The Dissonance of Self
EUGOV
Oil Paint on Canvas in Vacuum Bag, 115 x 75 cm.
This work confronts aspects of realism relational to perspective drawing key inspiration from the works of Emilio Villalba and Haruhiko Kawaguchi. I have sought to navigate the complex aspects of my relationship with self, addressing stigmatization by magazines, perspective based dissonance and discord to convey the experience of internalised awkwardness and discomfort within oneself and image.
Fitting - “I must be shutting up like a telescope.” “now I’m opening out like the largest telescope that ever was! (Alice, Alice in Wonderland, Chapter 1, Lewis Carroll)
This work addresses notions of realism, aspects of self-unfurling, and multiple perspectives (mentally and physically) and suggests the connotations of height and growth with regard to Alice in Wonderland.
Eye of the Beholder
Oil paint on MDF board, 130 x 80 cm.
Taking inspiration from the painterly techniques of Jenny Saville and Antonia Showering this piece explores phenomenological perspective utilizing dissonance, The Thatcher Effect and drawing from the ideas in Georg Baselitz’s work around human neurology and facial perception to transpose my own complex relationship with self and create interaction with the viewer.
Untitled (Facial Echo)
Oil Paint on Canvas, 29.7 x 42 cm.
Untitled (Facial Echo #2)
Oil Paint on Canvas, 29.7 x 42 cm.
Experimentation
Experimentation
Poppy Smith
Final year project
The Dissonance of Self
Awards
Publication in both Eclectic Magazine and TAP Magazine in 2021 over lockdown having concluded 2nd year spurred on my interest to engage with the wider art community and drew my interest to my peers at other universities and brought a particular focus on my curiosity to the work of the New Contemporaries.