sarah taylor West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
With a background in Fine Art Painting I trained for my MA at Chelsea College of Art, My ‘painting’ and practice research continue to investigate how painting is situated within codes of class and gender as they relate to questions of aesthetics in painting.
My practice research introduced the concept of Aspirational Beauty in 2011. The concept of Aspirational Beauty is to understand creative endeavours and practices that are outside of, or marginalised from established theoretical conventions and definitions. The concept of Aspirational Beauty is traced and articulated through a process of writing through multi disciplinary perspectives that incorporate and link painting, history, material culture, literature, sociology and fine art practice. I argue that Aspirational Beauty is a creative resistance to conforming to socially inscribed ideals of respectability. This research considers Aspirational Beauty as a possible position in establishing aesthetic resistance to class shame.
