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.
I think I'm now on pyramid number 96. I'm aiming for 200 which is easily achievable if I already have nearly 100. So I may aim for 300...but Im not sure how much space that would fill up...
In my mind the installation would fill the space and feel quite invasive. My work has always dealt with emotions attached to insecurities and anaylising ones own body, so to feel like your personal space is being invaded by these pyramids relates to how much these feelings invade your mind. Sometimes it can become overwhelming, and its a growning problem in society for young people. I chose the shape because its a prism,a shape which cuts light into the spectral colours. This splitting of light reminded me of how we mentally cut ourselves up by scrutinising different areas of our body, with each colour representing a different area. To contrast this I kept the work black and white,and used no colour at all, as a point that these feelings often take away any joy or "colour" we once had.
These are some photos I took in the print studio with a better camera.
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!
These images are of a prototype of an artists book I'm working on. I'm trying to get it done for the Manchester Artists Books Fair next month. I want to screen print it but time is ticking and it may be easier to keep it a digital print.
The fold I've used is called a the Turkish map fold, and I love how versatile it is. As the images show it can be maniuplated into many different forms.
This is a smaller version I tried out, Its not as flexible as the larger version.
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
I'm in the process of making a new artists book out of negative images and stitch.
Been working on possibly making a Zoetrope with some of my photographs for my print module.
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.
