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By: Sophie Victoria Elliott
I am on the Ba (Hons) Fine Art course at SMU. No house style and they encourage experimentation.
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I am a landscape based artist inspired by geological strcutures and features exposed by the elements and time at the coast. At the moment I am most intrigued by alluvial fans and am pursuing the connection between macrocosm and microcosm in nature.
# 3 [7 May 2011]
A week away in Brecon for a fine art field trip has unfortunately ended today, and back to reality I must return.
The exhibition is coming together at a fast pace as we build and paint amongst creating! Securing reviewers has been a pleasure, the artists of Swansea and Wales are so welcoming. Hopefully our opening will be a celebration of the work we are currently embarking on and not the closing of a chapter. Art and music amongst the beautiful West Wales Sunshine, what better way to move towards the next challenge; the challenge of 'beyond university'? I plan to hit the ground running, I don't know about anyone else.
http://smu-fine-art-2011.weebly.com
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Sophie Elliott, 'Untitled', Mixed, 13/04/2011. Photo: Sophie Elliott. I am fascinated by the sea when the swell is so extreme and the weather is fantastically dire that barely a sole dares to brave the weather. The best place to go when it is like that is just around the corner from Worms Head. The rocks extrude, displaying their harsh painful spikes through the crashing sea. And what is so interesting is the fabulous juxtaposition of the harsh raw elements and then the delicate foam that is whipped up by the sea. It encases the dark rocks, a blanket, ebbing with the tide.
# 2 [14 April 2011]
So the last few weeks I have seen far too much gumtape and have lost the feeling in my fingers! The sacrifices we make hey? But I am beginning to re-discover elements of my work and it is starting to pull together.
Tomorrow I am off to learn how to do collographs to make my monoprints have more depth and texture but all through this in the back of my mind I question whether drawing and printmaking is relevant in the contemporary art society? Equally I don't take any notice of myself and produce work that frustrates me but I need to make, it is imperative and within me to communicate my intrigues and to assess how and why I see. Why am I so interested in the cracks and layers and creases in rocks, why I am I so fascinated by the colours I see when it rains and so excited when I get a different type of paper?
All I know is that making is what I need to do and questioning is what I can't stop.
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# 1 [14 April 2011]
Okay so the preparations for the show are underway; tearing down of walls means no studio spaces for the last few weeks! I have been avidly drawing all hours that the uni is open, if only there were more hours in the day and 24 hours access! I would probably live in my studio though.
I am having a brilliant time arguing with myself and attempting to produce work but it feels as though there is many more months not weeks until the show. I have been advertising our show to all that I can think of and invite all to come and join us on our opening night:
Friday 20th May 7-9pm in Swansea.
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