Gemma Corelle

 Gemma Corelle

Gemma Corelle, is a feminis, cartoonist and pug lover from the UK and she is well known cartoon art looking at everyday issues, problems and trends in society and turn them into cartoons, most of which are based on feminist issues, similarly to what I am basing my work on. 

Some of which is a form of mockery and Micky take and some of which is motivational and encouraging. I have looked at her work before back in FE (foundation) but at the time she didn't do much for me as an artist, but now I have studied her work more, she is an artist I have come to like and found inspiring, her work is cartoon like which is imagery I tend to create, what I like about her work is the simplicity of it and how it is so relatable when you really study it. 

Here is some examples of her work below,  based on topics I am looking at for social cultural context, I think they're brilliant.   

 

Gemma Corelle's Super Tampon

Now I wish I saw this sooner in my research, as this is brilliant! Super Tampon, this is ingenious I love the simplicity and the humour in this design, it is quirky and works very well. If I saw this sooner I probably would of created something similar to this. 

With this design Corelle has created,  I think it is also quite clever, I like how she's mapped the menstral cycle, explaining how women go through it, it works well with educating children but it also draws humour to the adult audiences and this is something I hope to portray in my work as well as to cover a strong subject matter for my campaign. 

This had nothing to do with period poverty or anything we are looking at in the slightest but I thought this was brilliant and made me giggle, so I wanted to add this as I want to be able to try and make people giggle with my work, considering the fact I wanted to look at Baloo the Bear about the Bear Necessities and making some wordplay on that, I feel that looking at this piece for inspirational wordplay is a valid reason for this design Corelle has created to be part of this entry, maybe I could be the next Gemma Corelle!

She has even done art based on COVID 19

These designs are brilliant, I think they work well, they're very simplistic and again I wish I saw these designs sooner as I could of tried experimenting like Corelle has done for this concept for my newspaper too but to perhaps make my own sticks and "rewards" chart. I like how accurate this is, when I saw this it in fact made me smile. 

Now this design by Gemma Corelle is brilliant! if I was creating work for the mental health campaign or for a section in the Newspaper I again wish I saw her imagery sooner as this is brilliant, I could of created something similar to this maybe do mood gloves or something like that, but it works tremendously, this is a concept I would like to try and follow more in the future.