Clunie reid biography of albert
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Clunie Reid
Clunie Reid's contribution to Nought to Sixty
Clunie Reid (born Pembury, 1971, lives in London) creates aggressive and rampant photo-collages that question the media they are created from, as well as the integrity of the source images which they employ.
Clunie reid biography of albert
The artist uses deliberately cheap material, gaffer-taping her collages to the wall and emphasising the act of composition rather than the final product. In one group of works Reid takes photographs of her studio floor; in others airbrushed images of beautiful women are broken into fragments, scribbled over and adorned with slogans that resound with irony.
Reid's Beautiful (2008) shows a majorette, her facial features pixelated.
The original poster was found and photographed by the artist in Venice, already defaced with blue biro scribbled over the figure's eyes, nose and mouth. On her legs appear jagged scrawls of pubic hair. The dancer is superimposed over a postcard picture of a Venice sunset, and across the top