{"id":2275,"date":"2018-06-14T14:58:08","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T13:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everpress-blog.dvsb1.com\/?p=2275"},"modified":"2019-04-11T10:27:56","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T09:27:56","slug":"joy-miessi-making-wearable-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everpress.com\/blog\/joy-miessi-making-wearable-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Joy Miessi On Making Wearable Art"},"content":{"rendered":"

Can you tell our community a little about yourself to get started?<\/h3>\n

I\u2019m Joy Miessi, I\u2019m a freelance artist based in London. I\u2019ve grown up inspired by posters around Camden Town, hairstyles from my childhood, and my family home in Congo. I respond to my everyday life through drawing, writing, and abstract figures, making my work a visual diary for myself.<\/p>\n

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Artwork by Joy Miessi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What does it mean to be one of 50 artists working on the same brief for a cause like 50\/50?<\/h3>\n

I\u2019m grateful to be part of the line up. To me, it feels like a direct opportunity for us to use our skills for the wider community and to raise awareness.<\/p>\n

If you could pin it down, what does the term \u2018censorship\u2019 mean to you?<\/h3>\n

To me, it means filtering the reality. What comes to mind is a memory from when I was in Sunday school \u2013 a lot of the answers to my questions felt washed over, but I remember having to recite verses (to get sweets) and there was a verse about \u201cstopping your ears\u201d and \u201cshutting your eyes\u201d which also makes me think of censorship.<\/p>\n

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Joy Miessi’s 50\/50 t-shirt design<\/a>. Photography by Alec McLeish<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And how did you approach creating a tee design in response to this?<\/h3>\n

I used my usual style of self portraiture to create a response influenced by the biblical lines I remembered. I wanted to draw more on that sense of memory and nostalgia with this design, so I looked back to some of my favourite TV shows for inspiration. The colour palette from this was inspired by Reptar from Rugrats.<\/p>\n

Wearing these pieces takes the art outside of gallery walls and into public space.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You\u2019re no stranger to using fashion pieces as a medium for your work, what draws you to garments as a canvas?<\/h3>\n

I try not to restrict myself within my practice and experiment on materials outside of what I know. What drew me to paint on garments is that it was outside of my comfort zone. I studied fashion very briefly, but did terribly and left, but coming at it from an artistic viewpoint there really is so much fluidity and potential within it that there is no wrong, but really just an expression of identity and feeling. Wearing these pieces takes the art outside of a gallery walls and takes it out into public space.<\/p>\n

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