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!
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.
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...
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)
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.
