Jodie Wingham is an artist, predominantly based within the field of printmaking, whose work investigates the nature of looking.
Inspired by the act of observing others and the audiences’ enjoyment of this process she focuses on the viewers desire to gain information, what satisfaction we receive when an image is presented to us that reveals something not usually seen, a glimpse into the hidden. Using imagery with voyeuristic tendencies, where private moments are captured, she offers the audience the opportunity to fill in the gaps, interpret a narrative within the image in order to explore the act of looking and the roles of viewer and ‘voyeur’ in her work.
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Wingham’s recent body of work explores the photographic Mokltio print, using her own research and experimentation as a printmaker she seeks to combine traditional techniques with modern technologies and materials to explore the photographic image based within her studio in the West Midlands. With a keen interest in documenting the details, rather than providing the viewer with the full picture, Jodie Wingham’s Mokulito prints looks at the subtle clues our gestures can reveal and how these can be read. The hands have often been considered visual signs to others about what we may be feeling at that particular moment in time however, the narrative is left to the viewer to decipher. What a particular gesture reveals is left open to question, asking whether what is revealed refers to a universal language we all come to understand and be able to read or is based more on our subjective experiences.
Since graduating with a Masters in Fine Art (2016) her work has been selected for shows across the United Kingdom, recently she was selected for a solo show at OUTPOST gallery, Norwich and an associate member of the RBSA in Birmingham. Jodie Wingham is an artist, predominantly based within the field of printmaking, whose work investigates the nature of looking.
Inspired by the act of observing others and the audiences’ enjoyment of this process she focuses on the viewers desire to gain information, what satisfaction we receive when an image is presented to us that reveals something not usually seen, a glimpse into the hidden. Using imagery with voyeuristic tendencies, where private moments are captured, she offers the audience the opportunity to fill in the gaps, interpret a narrative within the image in order to explore the act of looking and the roles of viewer and ‘voyeur’ in her work.
Wingham’s recent body of work explores the photographic Mokltio print, using her own research and experimentation as a printmaker she seeks to combine traditional techniques with modern technologies and materials to explore the photographic image based within her studio in the West Midlands. With a keen interest in documenting the details, rather than providing the viewer with the full picture, Jodie Wingham’s Mokulito prints looks at the subtle clues our gestures can reveal and how these can be read. The hands have often been considered visual signs to others about what we may be feeling at that particular moment in time however, the narrative is left to the viewer to decipher. What a particular gesture reveals is left open to question, asking whether what is revealed refers to a universal language we all come to understand and be able to read or is based more on our subjective experiences.
Since graduating with a Masters in Fine Art (2016) her work has been selected for shows across the United Kingdom, recently she was selected for a solo show at OUTPOST gallery, Norwich and an associate member of the RBSA in Birmingham.
