I set up some of my pyramids for an exhibition at a local bar called Mello Mello today.
I originally intended the pyramids to fill a room, but as this was a bar/cafe I went looking round for a place were the work could fit in yet be safe and out of the reach of getting damaged. This place happened to be an iron girder through the center of the room. The pyramids were spookily a perfect fit.
I do like work that responds to the space its in, Its something I really like to do, looking round a space and coming up with an idea for a piece of work that is going to live in the space and react with it. Hopefully the work will be received well by the public in the bar an I like to think it will strike up conversation. There's nothing I enjoy more than anonymously hanging round my own work and hearing people discuss it. Negative or positive, Its a great way to hear how your work is read by others.
The private view is supposed to be this Friday, Details are still to be confirmed to me. I'll let my friends know as soon as every things in place.
Here's some photos of the work on display.
Fianlly got round to exposing one of my etching plates today. I have four different poses to print, however I only exposed one today just to see if I had the exposure time correct.
Now that I'm happy with the exposure I want to print the plate onto my own handmade paper. Which I've tried to scan but it hasn't turned out too well to show the nice texture of the paper.
Still working on the pyramids...Haven't made many recently been kind of busy with other things in my life and the christmas period. Trying to get back into working this week.
I've been working on a print for the Global Echo exhibition, which calls for a series of 10 of the same print to be sent to different schools/colleges around the world to be exhibitited. The print is a flat net shape of a pyramid containg a screen print of myself.
The prints have to be flat, So its almost like a proposal for a paper sculpture. However I decided to screen print a load of spare prints to actually cut out and form the pyramids.
I'm thinking hundreds and hundreds of them to create an installation? imagine it!
Today was the deadline for my print option work to be finished and put up for display. I'm nervous as it counts for 17% of my degree anbd I didnt do some of the things I intended such as my zoetrope.
But! on the positive side my mobile installation looked great especially once lit from below
Updates on where my work is at.
I've been working alot in the studio considering where my works going. Should it be just large tapestry? should it be an installation created into a box/room? should I suspend the portraits in sets of 3? ...the answer?I dont have one.
At first my need to include more texture and colour was simply a last minute want to make my work more appealing visually for the viewer and myself. However I've recently been much more selective in considering the position and shapes within the patches I place in my work. Whether they be torn paper, or fabric.
Had a great day yesterday at the manchester book fair. Saw some amazing work that almost baffles the brain how it was created but it was such a good oppurtunity to speak to other book makers and
learn a few tricks of the trade so to speak.
Our table sold a few books, not mine unfortunately but my tutor decided to let my book go on show in a cabnet at our other campus building and that also means I still have my book to submit for assesment!... so that was a mini silver lining so I'd like to thank Michelle for that haha.
So here is my submission for the artists books fair. Its hardly upto standard but i only had 3 days to make it (well i technically had longer but i only started making it 3 days ago...I've been busy you know) and alot of things went wrong for example:
1. Its a known fact I cant count. So measuring and folding to mm precision isnt my strong point however this is key to making an artists book work.
2. Printers obviously have a vendetta against me. I originally made this book on wednesday and the inkfell off the page. Quite literally started crumbling off the page. So I had to reprint the book. May I add it has continued to fall off the page on this version but its less obvious.
3. Time restraints mean less detail. The book is rather minimalistic. I would have liked to incorporate some machine sewing to tie in with my other work.
I'm bored of explaining my failure here some pictures:
(Apologies for the quality...The lighting in my room is awful I tried everything this is the best I could do)
Saturday is the 'Manchester Artist Books Fair' and my tutor for my Print module gave us the option to create a book to go in the show. Its now Nov 3rd and I have nothing prepared so I'm going to try and throw something together this week. My idea is to do a concertina-type fold and have alternating images of my head on each fold.
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Welcome to my blog! :)
This page is primarily a documentation of my art work I create. I'm a BA Fine Art, Mixed Media Student currently in my final year of my degree.
My work deals with ideas of the fragility of the human condition and often consists of images of my own body. I tend to work with materials that reflect the delicacy of the human form such as stitch and fabrics. My drawing style i like to describe as a "nervous" line, which also ties in with the themes of all my work.
