17.6.10
5.2.10
FILM showing at 12.00 Weds 3rd of Feb
4.2.10
Adaptation (2009)
3.2.10
Paper Beauty - Brief Introduction
30.1.10
Stephanie Bartscht
- Bruce Mau - http://www.brucemaudesign.com/
- Infrastructure- http://www.intrastructures.net
- William McDonough- http://www.mcdonough.com/full.htm
- Lunar Design - http://www.lunar.com/home.html
- Environment Victoria- http://www.environmentvictoria.org.au/
29.1.10
Mohammed Aslam
- http://www.centrepompidou.fr/
education/ressources/ENS- bourgeois-EN/ENS-bourgeois-EN. html - http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
exhibitions/louisebourgeois/ default.shtm
- http://www.acegallery.net/
artistmenu.php?Artist=8 - http://www.icaboston.org/
exhibitions/exhibit/donovan/
28.1.10
Karen
Below are some examples of my work:
City Book Etched Piece. Copper etched then oxidized.
‘Untitled’ Perspex Book based on the Nazi Camp System used during WW2
a few images documenting my recent peices, using the lighting studio. the photoes them selfs in a way are paying homage to where my work originated from the"spray can" i feel like my work has becom far removed from the walls but still retains a sertain format or style that tastes like graffiti.
The peices are painted on found cradboard and bought foam board however i aim to recycal and find as much of my materials as posible,
the consept behind the peices are inspiered by adem neats idea of leaving canvases hung on nails around the city for the public to enjoy as an open gallery/ exabition and my self set mission of finding an openly appropriate form of graffiti that inspeiers and ingages with the pacer by and offends as few people as possible. http://www.elmslesters.co.uk/index.php?pid=13&subid=26
27.1.10
Jess Hone
Blog Statement. Jessica Hone
My specialist area varies between sculpture and body adornment to jewellery. I consider myself a “maker” and thoroughly enjoy experimenting with a wide range of materials, anything that I can get my hands on and can be manipulated in a range of different ways. Throughout my course I have used a huge range of materials ranging from found and recycled objects, resin, plaster, metal and different ceramics. I have particularly enjoyed using ceramics within my work and find it is one of my strongest practice areas.
In my last project I used laser cut leather to make two leather cuffs to evoke restriction and femininity. The main ideas within my work relate around the idea of restriction in body adornment an my last body of work was based on etiquette and manners, working with objects like doilies and cutlery and looking at how social aspects restrict people in everyday life. I intend to carry these ideas on throughout my Final major project. I have recently been looking at patterns created by nature for example types of corals and mushroom and am currently looking at ways of reproducing these organic forms.
I feel that some of the ideas behind my work relate to Jessica Falcus and also Elise Goldins work as they also work with body adornment and restriction although the outcomes and materials used are quite different.
Artists using similar ideas and concepts within their work:
http://www.velvetdavinci.com/show.php?sid=84
Velvet Da Vinci is a fantastic website very useful for those working with jewellery and body adornment. It is full of artists like Enric Majoral seen here who used ceramics and sand to create beautiful coral-like pieces.
http://blog.metmuseum.org/blogmode/2008/02/05/78/junya-watanabe/ -Junya Watanabe is a fashion designer that uses synthetic and technologically advanced textiles to create his innovative clothing. I particularly like his ruff dress and the use the honeycomb texture.
26.1.10
Ann Barrett
My work has a central theme of drawing attention to everyday situations and objects, bringing the humble/lost/forgotten/un-monumental to the foreground with aims to imbue objects and situations with meaning or value, or to change the usual perceptions of objects/scenes. The everyday will mean something different to each person but the everyday I explore has links to memories, home and the city.
My final major project will be based on the ‘un-monumental’ everyday experience. This may be explored through one of these trajectories - city streets, nature (for example un-loved growths such as mould and weeds) and childhood experiences of the everyday (for example juxtapositions of the real and imaginary and novel uses of everyday objects). Children are artists in a way, with a rich imagination, they respond to everyday situations and can see the creative potential of everyday objects such as making a cardboard box into space station for example, yet they do not have the same capabilities or facilities to bring their imagination to life in the way adults can. For example adults are able bring to life fictional stories for children through TV programmes such as ‘The Borrowers’ through set design and also by creating books, animations, illustrations, graphics and sculpture. The designer Lucy Merchant has based her chair designs on child like drawings. Claes Oldenburg and Coosje Van Bruggen create large scale sculptures of everyday objects that appeal to the imagination. I am interested in the juxtapositions between real life and the imaginary.
Some of my work is similar to Mohammed Aslam and Kerry Murray as I have used casting to change perceptions of an object.
Relevant artists:-
Claes Oldenburg and Coosje Van Bruggen - http://www.oldenburgvanbruggen.com/
Lucy Merchant - http://www.lucymerchant.com/
Susan Lenart Kazmer - http://www.susanlenartkazmer.net/
Margaret Kay
Peer group: 3D Objects, although each person in this group uses different materials and concepts we all have relevance to one another, a tactile approach. My work is more relevant to Sian Morrison working with form and occassionally sharing similar ideas. At the moment I am working on a journal blog that will follow my process and technique through to the end of the FMP, and also catalog past and present projects. http://mkay-fmpjournal.blogspot.com/
http://www.hannahedman.com/
Her work is delicate working with beauty and the unpleasant suggesting human weakness and underlying defense mechanisms.
http://www.sculptedmetal.com/
Paula Groves works with scrap or found metal. Flee markets or scrap bins, she uses these scraps to create work giving them a new whole.
25.1.10
Shanna
My discipline or specialist area varies through communication, purpose or function and alternate understand-ability, be it through 3D or 2D. I attempt to look at expression through forms. My comfort zone is working with image manipulations through using Photoshop and Illustrator, however recently I feel I am progressing in to 3D and sculpture.
Previously I have worked with forms that are readable: its function. I have also worked with existing forms and manipulating them by adding materials to remove its function. I have noticed a personal fascination of Sullivan’s theory; Form Follows Function.
I feel my practice is moving forward much more towards 3D, I would like to continue working with image manipulation but also progress it further in to jewellery and body adornment and looking at the forms in relation to the theory of form follows function.
Jessica Falcus
The work focuses around Body Modification and restriction through fashion, sculpture, adornment and installation. By the removal of movement we experience new feelings, this knowledge and understanding develops once we gain full movement once again; we become aware of the capability of our bodies.We also restrict our bodies when integrating into select social circles; we become mirrors of one another; we modify ourselves to conform.
Relevant reading:
Davis, F. (1992) Fashion, Culture, and Identity. Chicago. The University of Chicago Press.
My work is most relevant to Elise Goldins, her most recent work makes reference to experience and body restraint; through developing relationships with one another we can communicate common experiences.
Contemporary Practitioners of interest:
Gareth Pugh: His catwalk shows are projected as an artwork / performance, Pugh’s creations restrict his models as they move along the runway. Some more recent shows have been created through video link, which demonstrates the full potential of the garments structure.
Naomi Filmer: She celebrates parts of the human body; she isolates areas like the neck, shoulders and feet and creates a spectacle of them.
Zoe Bradley: Creates one off Art / Sculptural Installations for retail brands, to enhance their brand identity. The use of paper-based material makes reference to my own work. Paper forms are an area I have briefly engaged with over recent years, and also a key area for development through my final major project.
Sian Morrison
I see myself as an alchemist artist as I work with material innovation. I create body adornments, sculpture and have now progressed into spatial awareness and architecture. I mainly work with concrete and my projects develop through material science, technical analysis and ongoing collaborations with tradesmen.
www.acegallery.net/artistmenu.php?Artist=8
www.andotadao.org
Aslam Mohammed
Hello, I'm Aslam and I see my specialism fitting within the realms of material manipulation, material interpretation and material representation with further connection to emotions, feelings and the personal attributes (cultural, religious etc) which 'form' a person and their being.
The material(s) that you intend to use can sometimes enhance, alter, play or mould the way it is interpreted by an audience as meaning something else. The inclusion of a concept sometimes needs to merge with the material used depending on what the concept is. If the concept is about contrast for example then the material used may be the opposite but if the concept is the portrayal of a certain emotion than the material used is quite important as the material itself will speak before the concept itself. The material therefore would probably be connected with many other connotations to a particular person so in order to alter this, the concept would need to be able to interplay or be displayed for them to work together. It is all about breaking the boundaries further to interlink the many attributes within my own work and their connection to myself and others.
Many of the artists/designers that I am interested and whom inform my work are concerned themselves with human connections through the use of material:
Louise Bourgeois works has reconnected with me personally since she is the focus of my dissertation and much of her work is relating to her personal emotions and reflection of these through her material use -
· http://www.centrepompidou.fr/education/ressources/ENS-bourgeois-EN/ENS-bourgeois-EN.html
· http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/louisebourgeois/default.shtm
Tara Donovan, another material based artist who have been referring to in many of my projects since the beginning of the degree, works with recycling of material to create these beautiful construction that take you into another world -
· http://www.acegallery.net/artistmenu.php?Artist=8
· http://www.icaboston.org/exhibitions/exhibit/donovan/
Anish Kapoor's exploration of colour, illusion and material is also something that I am intruiged by and his exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London displayed this :
Kerry Murray
I am a sculptor specialising in plaster and the process of casting found objects. I explore notions of space form and the alteration of perception of these objects through society, questioning their role within our presence. As I am a material based artist my inspiration and ideas stem from the process of casting. The transition from plaster changing its form and taking shape is something I intend to expand on in my FMP. This will explore the act of transformation between material process and concept.
Furthermore my studio practice will cross over to reflect therapeutic qualities and consider the act of art therapy within my concept of transition. In creating a relationship between these fields I am illuminating my potential as an interdisciplinary artist.
Within the peer group my work seems to parallel Sian Morrison in the way we are both material led sculptors. Although Morrison specialises in concrete we both deal with the innovation of materials within the art and design world. More so our concepts are similar in that we explore form and aesthetics yet Morrison’s practice tends to take a design outcome. In contrast my practice fits a more fine art approach.
Rachel Whiteread
http://www.luhringaugustine.com
Paula Chambers
http://www.paulachambers.co.uk/
Louise Bourgeois
http://www.oneroom.org/sculptors/bourgeois.html
The British Association Of Art Therapists
22.1.10
THE TERM INTERDISCIPLINARY
Please read on.............
The term interdisciplinary covers a wide variety of Art and Design disciplines; as a group of practitioners we found it extremely hard to differentiate as to which specialist area we position ourselves:
Members of this group:
Jessica Falcus
Kerry Murray
Aslam
Elise Goldin
Marianne Doumani
Sian Morrison
Ann Barrett
Shanna
Margaret
Please keep returning to the blog to see the work of these practitioners and see how they relate to the following:
The headings or titles we would give our practices and to highlight our interests are:
'Materiality: The stuff of Value' and 'Body Objects'
However each of these headings could incorporate Sculpture, Fashion, Jewellery, Adornment, Film, Metal, Ceramics and Glass, while also concentrating on natural forms, contrasting with functional objects. While considering different materials and disciplines our overall aim is to create a relationship between the wearer, the piece and the viewer.
Work of other Art & Designers is of extreme interest, we can analyse their forms and understand their meaning or concept; it is important to bridge the gap between the concept and the actual object.
The links below will hopefully give you an insight into other Artist & Designers that are influencing our current project work:
Pia Aleborg - www.piaaleborg.com
Hanna Hedman - www.hannahedman.com
Sandra Backlund - www.sandrabacklund.com
Sarah Angold - www.sarahangold.com
Katherine Wardropper - www.katherinewarddropper.com
Joe Torr
Andreas Slominski is an artist who is embedded with the story of an absurd action that preceded them. Story telling is an important feature of his work, acting to spread word of the work in a myth or folk tale fashion.
Simon Starling makes objects, installations, and pilgrimage-like journeys which draw out an array of ideas About nature, technology and economics. Starling describes his work as ‘the physical manifestation of a thought process’, revealing hidden histories and relationships.
Elgaland-Vargaland Leif Elggren and Carl Michael von Hausswolff proclaimed all Border Territories: Geographical, Mental & Digital as Elgaland-Vargaland creating a myth about the act and its legitimacy.
yoshua okon is a mexican video artist, his work A PropĆ³sito is an installation and video which consists of 120 stolen car stereos and a video of the artist breaking into a car and stealing a car stereo.
Iona Ascherson
www.andycouncil.co.uk/
http://www.peepshow.org.uk/illustration.php
www.anorak-magazine.co.uk/
Janet Allison
I am currently working on combining elements of taxidermy and anthropomorphism with classical tableware objects of grandure and decadence.
ARTISTS SOURCES:
KELLY MCCALLUM : using taxidermy and precious materials to make sculpture + jewellery.
http://www.kellymccallum.com/archive/209/gallery.html
BARNABY BARFORD : creating humorous narratives from ceramic assemblages.
http://www.barnabybarford.co.uk/
GAMPLUSFRATESI : a design duo who focus on furniture, BUT it is this one piece “ANT'IQUE” that interests me. A great example of “the reveal”.
http://www.maricazottino.com/blog/?p=465
Catherine Chialton (Cake)
Recently I have been exploring the relationship between fine art and graphic design. Looking at my work, it tends to start with a loose narrative and expand visually. I have a tendency to use motifs and images and proceed to manipulate them in some way. I feel many different medias and forms within art and design influence me.
When looking at the research which was discussed on Monday, i thought the Zine swap website was interesting, as a more internal way of getting your art out there and discovering new stuff.
I also really like projects which have a bit of an edge, a different way of image transfer. I also like this project because of the alternative way of raising awareness.
http://www.uhc-collective.org.
I am influenced by design studios such as
Ill Studio
http://www.ill-studio.com/
Ice Cream For Free
I also found the art market research interesting
Jack Scales
Chad Eaton - http://www.timberpreservationsociety.com/art.html
Mathew the Horse - http://www.matthewthehorse.co.uk/
Jack Hudson - http://jackhudsonillustration.blogspot.com/
Aron Klein
my progects often lead me to engage with and document the urban enviroment, translating my findings in to a form of narative for the veiwer. my work ends in 3 branches (gallery,street,shop): my work at large is designed for an external street enviroment however can be redifened and exibeted in a gallery space through the use of photography and both these styals influence my final direction of work witch is the creation of products and peices to be distributed through shops and other forms of outlet.
a few of my most insperational artist iv found recently!
herbert baglione has an incredable abilety ingage illistration and photography in a harmonious manner!
http://herbertbaglione.blogspot.com/
david ellis's work has had a strong influence on the way i see my work, with the realisation that the work can be the photoe of the peice as aposed to the peice its self or in his case a video, learning to be less precias with my work and less woried about taking a painting to far.
youll understand what i mean after watching this excrusiating but amazing video of his work.
http://www.davidellis.org/work/?show=motionpainting&work=daily
swoon and monica canilao are two artists whos work blend in both in a gallery space or a street enviroment. both worth a look.
insa, an artist whos defenatly an insperation on crossing boundrys, with a strong street prcence and notorety aswell as being a respected artist .
http://www.insaland.com/category/portfolio/
21.1.10
Chris Wren
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8796749344506734237&ei#
http://www.rankin.co.uk/
http://www.nickknight.com/
Matthew Hynds
Influence-wise, I am inspired by the collaboration between Chris Cunningham and Aphex Twin, several Radiohead videos (such as Knives Out, directed by Michael Gondry, below) and a few ads that catch my attention off the telly...
Knives Out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Lpw3yMCWro
No Surprises (personal fave)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbtuVoXkOFg&feature=fvst
Windowlicker (interesting relationship between audio/visuals here)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fmo1Sjn7dg
Honda (nice editing!)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/video/2009/dec/11/honda-ad
Kirsty Maclean
http://www.martinparr.com/index1.html.
My blog is http://kirstymaclean.blog.com/
My soon to be website is www.kirstymaclean.co.uk displaying current and past work.
My favourite website for research and new artists: www.itsnicethat.com
Martin Jessop
http://www.jasmineraznahan.com/
http://www.weareyoung.co.uk/
http://www.queerculturalcenter.org/Pages/FelixGT/FelixIndex.html
Kate Dickinson
http://www.tanyabonakdargallery.com/artist.php?art_name=Uta%20Barth
http://vimeo.com/2107116
http://www.vimeo.com/2860274
Roy Wood
I have been self-reflecting upon my practice direction and considering professional possibilities. It has been helpful to analyse the feedback from the previous project to help me think more carefully about the purpose of my work, and who it is aimed at.
Research
Lens based media will play a major part in my FMP. I am exploring the possibilities of narrative within imagery, and have begun research to support this theme.
Tim Gruber – New York based photographer.
http://www.timgruber.com/
Cindy Sherman – American photographer & film director.
http://www.cindysherman.com/
Stanley Kubrick – American film director.
http://www.kubrick.com/
http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/