About Lesley Ann Baker
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Education
2009 - 2012
Teesside University
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Biography
My practice is currently focused on the reinterpretation of high-street
advertising through painting. Big business and global corporations spend
millions on designers and artists to create advertisements for them, to market
their products. My practice is taking back the art from the adverts, reversing
the roles. I take these adverts and re-employ them, strip back and pare down to
the bare minimum, removing all extraneous images and text so all that remains
are the flat colours and simple shapes of ostensibly benign abstract paintings.
This deconstruction is meant to act as a subtle critique of the medium of
advertising, co-opting the seductive blueprint and transforming it into an
artwork.
