jenny warren

Jenny Warren
Artist's Statement

Being continualy bombarded with images of beautiful, slim young girls by the media evokes enormous pressure on women today to acquire the perfect figure. The UK cosmetics and toiletries market is at least £4.5bn.
Advertising total is more than £553m. The possibilities available to us to achieve the ideal image includes endless dieting regimes to more radical methods of liposuction and potentially dangerous surgical procedures.
Breast implants have become 'fashion accessories'. Consumerism has been criticised for its corruption and premature sexualisation of children.

My work is influenced by the fact that if all women achieve this (stepford Wives) ideal image, beauty becomes a uniform, women will fade into the landscape hiding behind the camouflage of the beauty industry. We are unrealistic about the true appearence of the body, the media's use of digital technology to manipulate images of women create impossible standards, beauty by its nature is a rarity. My aim is to show the assimilation of nature and technology and the ordinary
re-presented as a glamourous commodity.

Education

1997-2000 Loughborough University, BA (Hons) Fine Art, Painting
1996-97 West Notts College, Art & Design , Foundation, Mansfield, Nottingham

Group exhibitions

2004 The City Gallery, Leicester, Annual Open Exhibition
2003 Open Studios, Nottingham
2003 Nottingham Castle & Art Gallery, Open Exhibition
2003 Derby City Open
2002 The City Gallery, Leicester, Annual Open Exhibition
2002 The Gallery, Repton, Derbyshire
2002 Circa Open Studios, Nottingham
2002 Nottingham Castle & Art Gallery, Open Exhibition
2002 Derby City Open
2001 Open Studios, Nottingham
2001 Turtle Arts Gallery, Nottingham
2000 The susan Oppenheim Gallery, Repton Derbyshire
2000 The Croxton Arts Festival
1999 Astra Zeneca, Loughborough

Awards/Prizes

2004 The City Gallery, Leicester, Annual Open Exhibition
Orange Tree Prize

Commissions

Gallery Wine Bar, Loughborough
Astra Zeneca, Loughborough
Daphne Oxland, Bull Yard Gallery, Southwell, Nottingham