Fine Art

Emily Blunden

Five photos on a wall, each overlaid with white scribbles, depicting people in various indoor settings.

"See between the lines", 5x A5 photography on paper, white biro

Currently, I'm taking the idea of capturing domestic settings within a family with complications and deconstructing the idea of a ‘perfect family’ image.

My pieces are mainly family-rooted due a lack of understanding and having questions left unanswered. Therefore, I feel the reason I portray my own family in my work is to almost investigate the conflict. I'm looking behind the ‘happy’ moments and trying to show the ‘negative’ reality.

Over time I have started to experiment with photography. Using images displays a powerful sense of disturbance into the illusion and breaks into the actuality of a domestic setting. Playing with the scale of my art also shows that even something small could have a bigger impact on someone else. This helps me express my experience and how certain situations made me feel.

When questioning the intentions and reasons behind my works, I have struggled answering as I hadn’t actually known. I thought my family was the only family with issues within our four walls. Then came to conclude other families also struggle with difficult times. Which prompted me to realise I have finally found a sense of why I create these works is because I'm passionate to reflect, to recognise and to bring awareness to domestic problems.

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A pencil sketch of a girl's face with geometric string art overlay, forming triangles and lines across the eyes, nose, and mouth.
A canvas with a blue circle painted on a light blue background, leaning against a wall near a window.
Three people stand indoors, looking serious. A framed picture hangs on the wall above a closed door. The image is in black and white.
A black-and-white photo of five people sitting on a couch in a living room, with a wall decorated with framed photos and a tree mural.
Drawing with thread, 12x16 inchesrelapse, acrylic on canvas 12x16 inches Life stood still, photograph on paper 33.1 x 46.8 inches Live and learn, photography on paper 33.1 x 46.8 inches UNTITLED, biro drawing on yellow card placed on box lit up by light. 8.3 x 11.7 inches