Artist research - Grace Roselli
Roselli has been riding a motorcycle since she was twenty seven years old, within her practice she not only uses Photography as her main method of working, but within this also uses paint as well; often working with the female body as a sculpture within her work, creating performance like pieces and creating narratives. One of her most inspiring pieces was “The Naked Bike Project- Re-imagining the portrayal of women in motorcycling.” Throughout this project Roselli was looking at the stereotype that women bikers have been subject to over the years; posing these girls as being nothing more than a ”Dudes trophy girl posed up on top of a trophy bike.”
I feel especially drawn to the work of Grace Roselli, purely for the fact that her project and the photographs that she takes are almost like a voice; a platform for individuals outside of the biking community to inform them of what female biking is really like and what it really means to be a female motorcycle rider in the 21st century. I find the images that she takes visually pleasing, portraying a sense of power
and ownership, which radiates from them. These are the kind of images that I am looking to create and the message that I am looking to
bring across to my audience.
I feel especially drawn to the work of Grace Roselli, purely for the fact that her project and the photographs that she takes are almost like a voice; a platform for individuals outside of the biking community to inform them of what female biking is really like and what it really means to be a female motorcycle rider in the 21st century. I find the images that she takes visually pleasing, portraying a sense of power
and ownership, which radiates from them. These are the kind of images that I am looking to create and the message that I am looking to
bring across to my audience.
