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Lauren Douglas
laurendouglas93@hotmail.co.uk | 0772 9434162
An anxiety around ‘ideals’ is heavily present within
our contemporary society. We are pulled in by
capitalist corporations through excessive spending,
warranted by a desire to feed personal aspirations
and define social positions. In approaching this
tension the work uses conventional motifs in
unconventional ways, positioning multiple and
opposing layers of appropriated and designed
wallpapers within a space. The wallpaper imagery is
consumer-orientated print matter. Interspersed with
this are printed receipts, bringing visual languages of
consumption and spending into direct contact and
question. Repeating imagery to make patterns
reflects the way in which consumer attitudes
become ingrained over time through a process of
repetition and reiteration. This becomes so
compelling and familiar that we neither notice nor
question it. My work positions this homogeneity and
conformity within its capitalist opposite, spending.
‘Untitled’, 2015
‘Untitled’, 2015
‘Flux’, 2015
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