Research

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 Artists who works with stamps
February 2024

Guy Gee
https://guygee.com/collections/terence-stamps?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiA0PuuBhBsEiwAS7fsNbZUmWWkGfv08_K1ciE4UxlxAD73F64qgjWb0xKSjU4iK-6cfABynxoCVgYQAvD_BwE

Gee has curated a selection of stamps from around the world, with his chosen stamps he has enlarged them and digitally worked into them to later be printed of, creating large scaled versions of these stamps.

I like the use of playing with scale, making something that is small larger then it is, something i would like to do in my work. I also like the use of purpose changing, a stamp being used to communicate around the world but enlarging it gets rid of that use and turn it into a decorative piece. The same with stamp collectors, the stamps have served the purpose of being used to communicate and is that collected to viewed at. 



Gary Hogben
https://gary-hogben.pixels.com/collections/stamp+collages

Hogben has created a collection using stamps in a collage sense. I like these art works as when you look closely you can see smaller images what create good visual interest. One of my initial ideas with my stamp work was to create an image out of mutiple stamps but more in a puzzle way. If i had longer on this project i would like to explore this concept more with the natural world but i think it would be interesting to photo copy my own stamps and do more abstract images with them or simplified images of wildlife.
He has also made a large scale stamp out of smaller stamps.




Tonia Jillins
https://www.toniajillings.co.uk
https://www.toniajillings.co.uk/aboutartisttoniajillings
Jilins creates small mix media illustrations expanding from stamps. I enjoy her work as she is mixing the existing and her own work into it, expanding into the unknown. Her works goes beyond the boarder of something that exists and expands the world. She also does more abstract versions of these, being more lose and suggestive of the world beyond that i also enjoy, these ones are less realistic and seamless than the other pieces but still have the effect on what is beyond the world we can see.








Steve McQueen
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2010/mar/18/steve-mcqueen-stamp-national-portrait-gallery
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2007/mar/12/iraq.art
https://www.artfund.org/supporting-museums/art-weve-helped-buy/artwork/10089/queen-and-country#:~:text=McQueen%20proposed%20that%20the%20Royal,to%20collaborate%20in%20the%20project.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_and_Country_(artwork)
In 2010 McQueen created a series of postage stamp featuring portraits of UK soldiers who have died in the Iraq war. He proposed to the Royal Mail that they create stamps of the servicemen and woman who has sadly lost their life in the Iraq war. He had the intention that their images will enter the lifeblood of the nation though their use in circulation. This project is on going and will only end when the British operation in Iraq ends.











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