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ARTIST STATEMENT
I am a very social artist; most of my art works are inspired by the people I meet and interact with on digital social spaces online. I have a hard time interacting with people face to face, in person, so social media became my way of creating relationships and engaging with others. The platforms where I share my art with others are sites dedicated to the interests, we have in common based on the TV shows, books, movies and video games we have in common. Through these social media outlets, I can push my own limits, share a side of myself I am uncomfortable sharing elsewhere. There is an openness and drive among this gathering of peers that serves as inspiration to me and creates community. Social media allowed me to push my own limits on what I shared with others and affected what I was personally creating. Being surrounded by several other artists like myself drove me to create increasingly more open works and they served as inspirations with how they would work and create their own art. I make digital art and illustrations and appreciate the accessibility social media affords me to show and share my designs. I create characters that illustrate personal stories and characters of worlds that I have created by myself or others that I have created with my peers. Some of my artworks are visualizations of my emotions from the time I was making them, and some of them are characters in a much larger fictional world of my own. My emotional pieces are freeing to me but wounding, as I can never forget why they exist the way that they are, pieces of myself that are sharp and broken. My character works are an escape from myself and allow me to look further beyond at other’s experiences and ideas. They allow me to create my own escapism. |
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I have never felt like I belonged within a white walled gallery, where my work would be hung up and displayed. I have always aimed to make my works available to the communities that inspired me, and having my work only displayed in galleries you must travel to, often completely ignores them. I hope to push my work out to more sites and allow my artworks to be accessible to even more people, creating more communities to inspire others.
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Shade Royer is a graduating artist that will be receiving a B.F.A with a focus in digital illustration from Valdosta State University. They have always had a desire to travel, but no means to do so, so they instead do it through the reading of fiction, the escapism of movies, a love for animation and storytelling and a connectivity through social media. These provide opportunities to explore beyond the borders of their limited Southern town.
Royer uses their artwork as a form of communication. Creating digital illustrations and sharing them through online communities and sites such as Tumblr, Discord and others, has eased the struggles they feel in being open and making bonds with others in the analog world. Royer finds these platforms freeing, providing what face to face interactions cannot.
The screen has always been their protective layer against a world that has never seemed within reach.
Royer makes their artwork always available through open-source online formats as these, that allows the work to be for everyone, Shade find the confines of the gallery to be temporary and eliminates the audience Royer feels most connected to. This method of showing their art is a way of giving back to the social media connections that have inspired them to continue to make artwork and will inspire others to have the same positive and creative outlets.
Shade Royer is a graduating artist that will be receiving a B.F.A with a focus in digital illustration from Valdosta State University. They have always had a desire to travel, but no means to do so, so they instead do it through the reading of fiction, the escapism of movies, a love for animation and storytelling and a connectivity through social media. These provide opportunities to explore beyond the borders of their limited Southern town.
Royer uses their artwork as a form of communication. Creating digital illustrations and sharing them through online communities and sites such as Tumblr, Discord and others, has eased the struggles they feel in being open and making bonds with others in the analog world. Royer finds these platforms freeing, providing what face to face interactions cannot.
The screen has always been their protective layer against a world that has never seemed within reach.
Royer makes their artwork always available through open-source online formats as these, that allows the work to be for everyone, Shade find the confines of the gallery to be temporary and eliminates the audience Royer feels most connected to. This method of showing their art is a way of giving back to the social media connections that have inspired them to continue to make artwork and will inspire others to have the same positive and creative outlets.
Leopard Moth, Digital, 2021
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King of the Forest, Digital,
2021
Digital Gallery
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Frame 4: Hotels and Travels, Digital, 2021
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