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.
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!
I'm kind of really upset I have to work tonight, It just means that I lose most of tomorrow when I could be working on my art. I'm currently trying to improve my journal to get it upto a good standard. I know I have until Friday technically, since our work doesnt get marked by examiners until atleast the 14th. But I would like to have it all finished by the 11th so I can hand it in during the private view, that way I dont need to rush back monday morning.
Ok stop ranting Scot.
I'm, really happy with my practical work though, it still needs a couple of very tiny tweeks but 99% of it is complete and I can't wait to see it all up and on on display.
(knowing my luck I wont like how it looks in the gallery and will have a breakdown)
I'm going to stop now I'm obiviously blogging through stress not because I have anything to say
Major update.
I havent blogged for four weeks...mainly since a good portion of that was spent doing nothing over easter....However the past 10 days my creative juices have literally been turned on like some teenage hormone charged orgasm...
The large tapestry i was working on had been stressing me out for some time. I had considered starting a whole new piece of work, creating it into a tent, cutting it up again into speaerate images, even binning it...However I was looking back through my sketchbook, through some old ideas and remebered I had once envisoned it being a tailor made suit. To put it bluntly this is what it has become.
The suit represents a layer or skin ...the surface of me. The bit that your worry about the most. The bit you always want to change. The stitched portraits of myself are delciate and have bits of torn paper and textures, representing the fragile human condition. I think the suit could lead to a really interesting video installation of me wearing it and even taking it off to shed the layer and let go of my insecurities.
yes. I'm getting deep with this shit.
Edit: new and improved pictures of my suit...
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.
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.
Well today was the deadline for my work to put up for display and to be marked etc. I'm so proud of what I've achieved this term. I've grown as an artist and my work has really progressed. I was kind of lazy the past year I've truly kicked myself up the back side and pulled through. The work looks so good now its up and been presented in a more professional manner.
I think its the first time I've actually enjoyed the run up to assessment, I was enjoying making the work...exploring the possibilities my ideas held. Moreover I am now even more excited to push my ideas even further after christmas...but right now I'm going to start think about some ideas for my print option module.
heres some photos of the final result:
This is a view of the whole space:
This is the large stitched piece of work I made...with some close ups following
This piece was the last thing I made...its a series of small mono prints on tissues paper...stitched together then onto a large sheet of fabric..then pasted over with a PVA water solution to create creases and tears.
These are the smaller stitched pieces I have posted about before...I decided to frame them in open frames with no glass..suspended by thread.
These are again a series of small mono pr
ints on tissue paper..but displayed as they were originally, fragile, delicate and moving with any slightly breeze or breath...
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.
