Studio Brief 2: Sister Corita Kent

Sister Corita Kent joined the religious order Immaculate Heart of Mary at 18 and later started teaching within the art department at Immaculate Heart College. She developed her individual style through the incorporation of images, slogans, lyrics, bible versus and literature. Her work later became political focusing on issues of social injustice such as racism, poverty and injustice. Kent left the order in 1968 and developed her work as an artist as after 1970s she developed her own introspective style as influenced by the environment around her as well as her battle with cancer. At the time of her death in 1986 she had created over 800 serigraphs, watercolours and public and private commissions. I've taken influence from Kent's typographic collages (see figure 1-3) during my initial experimentations using collage and typography for idea generation (see figure 4). 

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