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End of Project Statement – ‘Press Release’
This project has been about how my work relates to the outside world, and the context with which it stands. During this project, I discovered that my work fits better in a gallery context; all white walls, big open space, large enough to walk around in and for there to be an artwork. But I also discovered that my work isn’t just about the exploration of the spatial environment, it’s also about exploring the mind, my mind, and how I see spaces and how I interact with them.
In this piece I used fishing line to create a support structure for the piece, and then laid out the string throughout the space. This created this beautiful architectural drawing within the space, among all the translucent wire. Creating landscapes within spaces is what I’m best at, and in the future I will be exploring my ‘true’ reason as to what my work is based on, the theme in other words. I shall also explore other materials and incorporate more of my imaginative landscapes within my installations.
Project One – ‘Connecting through Making and Thinking’ Week Two
Hi everyone! These posts are being uploaded a bit late aren’t they? straight to the update then.
I mentioned in the last post of this, the first week of the course was to draw six A2 sized drawings. So for the second week, I had to use those drawings and translate them into paint. The task was to use one of each drawing from each category (figure, object, interior/exterior), and then paint the three in the same painting. So here’s the thing,… I’m not a great fan of painting, I’ve only painted when I was in first school, and once during high school, and none of those paintings turned out great. I have given painting a fair go the past week though, and I don’t mind it now, but I’m only good at making paintings that are ‘abstract’, by abstract I mean they only look like they image I’m painting if you take a step back and look from across the room. I did say the same thing about drawing though; I never did like drawing until the foundation last year, so it might turn out that painting is my new muse,… maybe.
So after messing around with paints and seeing how they worked, I went on to paint copies of my drawings. Some have turned out good and you can recognise what I’ve aimed to paint, a couple on the other hand haven’t turned out good. The ones that haven’t worked though are ones which I’ve drawn from imagination and not from an image, so that answers that problem. After deciding what to combine with what, I painted an ear attached to my foot with a pencil on the side (not the greatest combination I know). I now have more paintings which just contain one item. I aim to add other items over the current paintings and use those for ideas for the canvas. The images below are the progress I made over the past week.
Enjoy.
Project One – ‘Connecting Through Making and Thinking’
Hi everyone, this is the first official project of the year. I’m going to try and make Tuesdays my weekly catch up on the past week of my course. These posts will contain information like workshops, ideas, progress, evaluations, resolved work, etc. I will try to post up workshops on the day they’re done, but I can’t make any guarantee’s as the wifi in my accommodation likes to turn off sometimes.
So without talking too much, here’s last weeks project.
This project is named ‘Connecting Through Making and Thinking’. During this project, I will be using and learning a wide range of methods, from ones I know like drawing and painting, to ones I don’t know, like metal work, wood work, metal casting etc. The aim of this project is to gather ideas and find a path of art which I enjoy the most, and then develop that path/media into a professional practice. I for one already know I’m more focused towards Sculptural Installation, but this project will give me access to even more areas than the foundation could.
The duration of this project is fourteen weeks, not including winter vacation. The first week of the project mainly included drawing; the task was to make six A2 sized drawings, out of these six, two had to be figures, two had to be objects, and two had to be interior/exterior (landscapes). By the end of the week, I had drew eight drawings in total, where two where figures, one was a landscape, one was an object, and the other four were able to be classed within all three categories. The outcome for these drawings was to get information; to get true information from real life objects and people, for example, light and shadows, size and shape, perspective, etc. The aim of the current week of the project, is to take one drawing from each of the categories, and paint the chosen three into one image.
Also, during the past week I hand made, and stretched my own canvas during a couple of workshops. I had to make the frame/the stretcher for the canvas during the first workshop, and during the second I stretched to canvas over the frame.
So that’s what I’ve been doing over the past week. Sorry if I don’t make my target of posting these every Tuesday, the student life is very busy, especially since my timetable for every week is 9:00 am to 5:00 pm every day. I know I forgot to post last Fridays Instagram post, I will combine this weeks images with last so you get to see all my work and progress.
Enjoy.
Fictional Worlds – Everything At Once
Sorry for the delay in this being posted, but hey, it’s finally here! Enjoy.
My project is about how we create our own fictional worlds, and how we can create objects, people, and even space out of the most minimal idea. The piece I have created is to illustrate my own worlds and everything that happens within them; as we can’t see everything that’s happening in our world, I decided to illustrate everything that happens in mine, so you can see everything at once.
This project began with the plan of using mark-making and drawing to music, this idea came from the Visual Communication project in the exploration stage of the year. I began to listen to music from the game ‘Minecraft’ and started to draw random shapes and designs, which slowly turned into a landscape. ‘Minecraft’ is a computer game, where the landscape is made from cubes and pixels and you can change, build and create your own world. I then explored the idea of fictional worlds and to create more detailed and meticulous drawings, evolving them to what they are now.
For a while, my drawings developed on their own, I would place them on my wall to give influence to the next and that created a chain of drawings which then started to illustrate different dimensions of my fictional world. I researched Paul Noble’s work and gained some influence from his ‘Nobson Newtown’, an illustrated world of his own creation. I was also inspired by Sarah Sze’s work and how she collects and groups her work and creates her own world in her installations.
Once I finished drawing, I decided to collect my work and develop the piece further. I went back to ‘Minecraft’ and decided to use its architecture; I then created cubes out of my drawings and using my influence from Sarah Sze, I invented some ways to group my work and how it was to be displayed. With ‘Minecraft’ being a constructive game, I decided to use it as a basis for the presentation of this piece. The outcome is a world of my own which is driven by imagination and creativity. A world where everything is happening but nothing built in the same way, where you can continue to change, manipulate and play with the architecture to make your minimal ideas expand.
Drawing has been a massive part of this project, but drawing is a minimal part of my life; I’ve realised that I have my own style of drawing and I now understand its importance. I will be continuing to draw in the future, now that I understand its ability, and mine.
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