Leah Faye Simmons: "Purchase"

In this interview, we speak to Leah Faye Simmons,she creates work within the 3D department of Fine Art.

What is the title of your work?

"Purchase".

Summarise the work in 5 words

Receipt commenting on art industry.

Talk us through the process of creating your work

The work depicts how students work is worth less than the materials used to create it. Whereas art should typically revalue pieces of rubbish, in this circumstance the work devalues the material by being work that is student made. It is a comment on commercialisation particularly the commercialisation of art.

Tyveck attached seamlessly to metal structure, the process was based around sourcing a material that looks like paper and is also water proof and difficult to tear. The print cost 50 quid which will follow through with the concept when the work is thrown away after being shown. Through my work I had the challenge of creating a frame that is stable, creating the illusion of paper on the groud. 

How is the work site-specific?

Juxtaposes the natural environment depicting how humans ruin things through the over production and commercialisation of object.

How did you conduct your research for the exhibition?

Research based around art fairs- industry-interviews with collectors initiating with documentary on the art market and the realisation that something as beautiful as art can be ruined by human kind.

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