Having studied fine art at City & Guilds London and establishing her reputation in fine art painting, she moved to an interdisciplinary approach after completing a History & Politics degree at Liverpool University.
She is also heavily influenced by her work in the UK’s leading retail business. In producing her visual forms of social constructivism, her conceptual approach employs a playful twist on branding and the marketing mix. Her work focuses on the by-products of countless human choices looking to uncover the way individuals or groups project and participate in the creation of their perceived social reality and ‘imagined communities’.
Currently she is interested in work that intersects day-to-day life, living outside the constraints of the gallery and often blurring the boundary between audience and consumer.
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'A little place for you and me to meet'
2012
Part of TRADING STATION
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Throughout Cecilia’s work we see her playful twist on
marketing, used as a tool when producing her visual form
of social constructivism. Whether she is manipulating
logos, brands, or creating adverts, Cecilia is uncovering
the by-products of countless human choices and the ways
individuals and groups participate in the creation of their
perceived social reality.
Her work in riPOSTe explores the marketing of identity
for an individual and for a city. Firstly, with reference to her
own background, Cecilia’s portrait series, from a socialite
to a WAG, uncover the gender and social constructs
which are as old as the hills, but simply re-communicated
through new media for consumption by society.
Her second piece is a playful pastiche referencing Warhol’s
infamous screen-print 200 Campbell’s Soup Cans 1962.
By manipulating Liverpool’s Capital of Culture logo and
manufacturing Scouse stew in a can, she questions how
we understand culture. UNESCO defined Culture saying
it “should be regarded as a set of distinctive spiritual,
material, intellectual and emotional features of a society
or a social group, and that it encompasses, in addition
to art, literature, lifestyles, ways of living together,
value systems, tradition and beliefs”. Scouse stew, a by
product of being a port city, epitomises our local ‘ways of
living’ together.
Important for Cecilia is the context in which her work
is viewed and desires that it exists outside the constraints
of the gallery walls. By becoming an intervention in
day-to-day life her work, within the context of the ‘Marketing Mix’, confuses the boundary between audience
and consumer.
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Cecilia Kinnear