The Emperors of Ice Cream : Artworks by Teresa Duck

Teresa Duck’s series of artworks titled ‘The Emperor of Ice Cream’ really stuck out for me.

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I love the nostalgia of ice cream vans and their place in my childhood, as well as the lo-fi, but colourful designs that they can harbour on their bodywork. Great stuff!

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Teresa Duck is an artist living and working in Newcastle, where she studied B.A hons fine art at Northumbria University.

Teresa’s work is inspired by Pop art, in particular the work of British pop artists such as Peter Blake. She wishes to create links through her work to elements of human experience, particularly by engaging with emotional experience and physical objects which are related to themes of nostalgia, hope, pleasure, despair and mortality.

She does this by taking familiar objects relating to her own past in the North East of England where she grew up, and exploring the impact these objects had upon her own life and those around her.

She feels that the objects that have become so familiar to us are the ones which have created the most impact upon in our lives. How we relate to these objects and what we associate with them shapes who we are even if we do not always recognise them as doing so.

Via OpusUnderground.com

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