Prue Stent

Prue Stent

Melbourne based photographer (recent graduate)

Recently I have stumbled across this artist - Prue Stent, a recent graduate of RMIT, I think her work is wonderful. It is obscure and subversive as it addresses femininity with constructions of spontaneous colour and fun objects.

This work is part of her 2014 pink series, a body of work that beautifully combines landscapes of the body and of nature. I feel happy viewing and reading her whimsical compositions in which she pushes the experience of materials and combines these materials with the female figure. The impact of these images lie in the strength of composition. I think I feel relief when I see these images because I view them as a funny dialogue with aspects of the female body. I don't find them confronting by any means by Stent reminds me that I can be more comfortable. Stents photography is an exploration of gender and I love the openness and bubbliness in which she approaches these themes. I am most excited by the playful nature of her work.


EXTENDED RESEARCH 4/5/15

Body of Work - Pink

Prue Stent's words

I become obsessed with certain colours. It was green a while back but at the moment it is pink. I like to challenge myself to work with a colour and then explore the ‘idea’ of the colour. At the moment my focus is on pink and all the many cultural associations there are with pink especially as it relates to precepts of gender identity.

In a lot of my work you will notice that the face of the model is absent or obscured by veils or masks of one sort of another. This symbolises our cultures focus on the female body rather then individuality. The viewer is then left to decode what the work says about the power of feminine sensuality. I also like to juxtapose the natural environment with the female form to magnify themes of poise and strength.

The obsession with a colour I LOVE COLOUR this can be easily pursued but which colour pathway do I take. Blue consistently appears as a favourite. I commit to blue.