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24 artmosphere the art perspective
www.jayneshearer.co.nz jayne30shearer@gmail.com @ jayne_shearer
In 2006 Jayne completed her Bachelor of Visual Arts and Design. While at Art School she was drawn to Pop Art and Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe Paintings and
Screen prints. The Luscious lips and his use of vibrant vivacious colour led her to look at the place of beau- ty and glamour in today’s consumer society and its effect on identity - She was painting and drawing mul- tiple lips with pencil and paint in an attempt to signify the beautiful surfaces of the things we love to buy, to own and to consume. It then evolved into using Jaynes own lips to kiss the canvas and paper using lipstick thus short-circuiting the need to paint and draw multiple
lips. She uses her own lips as a ‘printer’. The act of kissing the surface of the canvas represents the love for the ‘beautiful things’ with which we surround oursel- ves. She started out using just one lipstick colour and composing monochromatic pictures but eventually got her hands on as many colours as she could. Since then Jayne has been collecting examples from the images of beauty and glamour that surround us, constructing images from them as models from which she could paint. With the exaggerated size of the artworks as well as the careful placing and perfecting of each lip print She glorifies the surface and the objects of desire that are portrayed.
‘Enslaved by the manipulative mechanisms of contemporary advertising, I self consciously and adoringly mimic the media.’
Jayne Shearer