The next peice of work I did, was a 1970’s design from a frosties cereal packet. I painted the image onto the canvas using acrylic paint.
I originally had this idea I wanted to try, using with this image. I thought about the mass consumption of celebrity and how I would use this in the work.
When talking about the consumption of celebrity, I was making a statement about the amount of ‘celebrity’ which is used in the media and in magazines, news and television. The consumption of this is through the eyes of the individual and how on a daily basis we are inundated with the celebrity world.
This to me also related to mass production, as in, someone who has a big celebrity status in the media, could then be not famous or of interest another day.
Going back to the frosties design, I had this image in my head of Tony the tiger with a bowl full of celebrities. So I then began to cut out pictures from magazines and newspapers. Similar to the work I had previously done, I played with the composition of the images untill I was satisfied they worked within the painting.
The outcome was both humorous and pleasing to me. Tony the tiger looked like he was literally cunsuming the celebrities out of his cereal bowl.
This piece of work was then put into the auction to raise money for our degree show.
