Jackie Raybone analyses the rhetoric of the new coalition government in her work ‘Transparency’, using detailed drawings on long rolls of paper to look at, among other things, the press coverage of the Con-Dem ‘Rolling back the state’ ideology, fearing the detrimental effect that this could have on community and public services. (Cuts and Grazes Exhibition at The Art Corner, Manchester, 2011).
The 12 metre long work; 'Transparency' (2010) was a pen on tracing paper drawing that documented media coverage of the May 2010 general election campaign and policies emerging in the first 100 days of the coalition government's term. Transparency was created for my MA Fine Art final show at UAL in 2010, and later became a banner for a TUC march about saving funding for public services.
Thank-you to; Guy Atkins of Save Our Placards, AIR, the TUC, Graham Martin, The Art Corner, Wimbledon College of Art, friends, colleagues and family, for your efforts and encouragement in helping this work to travel the land!
The sketches, photographs, photocopies and mock up drawings created in the fine art studio reveal my working process in preparation for the final installation. I used layers of traced images derived from photographs taken from television reports, portraying a zooming in-and-out focus, drawing like a film camera, shifting and repeating image sequences like an animation, fragmenting and disrupting the narratives of politicians speaking.
Film of 'Transparency' installation: https://www.premioceleste.it/artwork/ido:66571/