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Victoria Blackburn-Harris

BA (Hons) Fine Art, Yr3
Victoria Blackburn-Harris Victoria.Blackburn-Harris@mail.bcu.ac.uk
BA (Hons) Fine Art, Yr3
2021
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A selection of coloured fabric manipulated in a flat bed scanner. The colour of the fabric is red, yellow, purple, pink, green and blue.
Felt Orgy by Victoria Blackburn-Harris

 My practice is based around identifying eroticism in seemingly innocent objects and investigating the complexities of pleasure. I work primarily with textiles as it relates to our bodies and helps visualise our thought processes through the many different types of textile manipulation. Film and photography help me capture the processes and allow further manipulation. All my chosen mediums relate back to sharing, engagement and relation to the body. I try to materialise feelings that are hard to explain and easier to visualise.

My focus is about the relationships with materials, erotically and/or emotionally then documenting those relationships. This often involves manipulating fibres or anything tactile that may relate to the body or interacting with fabric involving the body. I enjoy community wide interaction as it pushes the scale and changes the dynamic, which has been challenging in covidtimes and has led to finding different ways to engage and display tactility. 

I am interested in the activism for the education of pleasure, focusing on female sexual liberation and the celebration of the vulva. I am heavily influenced by Vex Ashley’s erotic films, the specific style of editing, set design and diverse range of people involved is overwhelmingly inspiring.

I’d hope my work encourages exploration and triggers reflection into what pleasure means to each person. But also, I want viewers to feel a subtle overwhelming urge to touch and submerge themselves in my work in a playful way.

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A series a cubes with photographs printed on them are stacked against a white background. The cubes show a young woman eyes and mouth, alongside architectures from the Middle East. The female characters represented on the cube appear to wear a head scarf.