Lucy Odlin, Bristol 2009
Added:
16:35 01/11/2009
Description:
Lucy Odlin, Bristol 2009
Size: 250x250mm
Unfamily is a series of oil paintings, fictional ‘family portraits’ created using a social networking site to contact members who share my (unusual) surname, and requesting a photograph of them. This project takes advantage of the proliferation of disposable imagery found on the 'information superhighway', to exploit the abstract nature of the global online community. It also seeks to undermine traditional notions of portraiture, questioning the need for any real relationship at all, between artist and sitter.