With this one, I tried to capture a very Shrigley way of working. I tried to go against anything and everything that religion uses with painting - that being a delicate brush stroke with texture and intentional line work with specified planning and structure/confidence so they can be posted as murals and a representational look of what Jesus would look like. I decided that, like in other religions with spirituality and eccentric gods and goddesses, that I could make Jesus into a simplistic, 3 headed [beast] which could be very controversial - evidently my topic. I took shrigleys intentional but not imminently noticeable, placement and used the brush stroke heavily as if it was a pen.
Another religious experimental piece - this is Buddha. It's not extremely noticeable because it's painted on leafs - but I really wanted to try out a bit of mix media and see what could happen if I painted on top of it. I did originally use a cherry from a tree as the spot on the forehead, but it wouldn't stick. I chose Buddha because it's another religion that is vastly known across the world and is a symbolisation of peace (the opposite to the Catholic/Jewish/COE religion where the bible is essentially full of contradictions, violence and segregation between skin colour, animals, genders etc.) and it would look great next too another controversial ironic piece. However, this one was more intentionally placed because Buddhism is more towards celebrating nature, peace and working with spirituality - therefore a nature piece with leaves.
Just because I wanted to try out another Jesus piece, I decided to try out a different quick 5 minute style. This is the outcome. I used multiple different chalks/pastels to get to this, barely leaving the paper to switch between them. I didn't want it to be blatantly Jesus, I wanted the audience to contemplate for a while and interpret as they will. The messiness could be interpreted as the reflection of how messy religion is, as a whole. 
The missing Jesus painting that miraculously made a resurrection just after Christmas. I was planing on a fine art painting - something similar to the ones you find in churches, but I wanted to make it more subtlety contraversial. As we all know, paganism plays a huge roll in the controversy of religion (not so much in 2016) so I decided to put a pentagram that's only faintly showing on camera, behind. This would evidently make people feel and contemplate which is the whole point of my project.
Lady Mary to go with Jesus. I'm not going to write too much about this one because it's very similar reasoning than the previous writings - but I did decide to make sure that Lady Mary wasn't looking overly healthy nor happy. I kept my painting style; the usual heavily blended and structured because I felt then it would make more of an immidiate impact on the people looking at the painting.
Last but not least, the transformation into a woman. The female form is a very contraversial subject with the illegality of nipples, the 'slut shaming' and the anti feminist ways of many due to their belief of it not being "needed" in 2016. Massively contraversial and a subject I feel strongly opinionated on and rather personally attacked sometimes due to the insecurity around the matter! This is a representation of "YOU DO YOU." You grow, you live, you breathe and you do you - no matter what anybody says. This shows the change in the female form and at which point, typically, they can become somewhat objectified by the media, certain individuals and made to feel shamed for their natural form. I needed something that was so close to my heart on the contraversial installation or it wouldn't feel right; especially with how absolutely relevant it is, day in day out.
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