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Gemma Cumming

Wokingham

Gemma Cumming graduated in 2006 from Loughborough University (School of Art and Design) with a BA in Fine Art. Looking at ideas of failed perfection, anticipation and tourism, her work primarily reacts to imagery that sells an expectation of a place, not its reality.

Through various media she aims to subvert this kind of imagery. Using paint, she creates giant painted postcards with an ominous twist. Replacing the blue skies with darker and/or more ominous ones, while retaining the brightly lit foreground, and occasionally adding other incongruous objects she asks the viewer to look again at the scene. She also creates drawings, prints and other works that explore similar themes and concerns.

 

Greetings from Flag Fen

The Island - St Ives

Eden Project

Minack Theatre

Malta

Fantastic Thames Barrier

Kew Gardens

Southwold Lighthouse

Southwold Greetings

Welcome to Jungle City Edinburgh

Walberswick Ferry

Greetings from Southwold

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