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By: Naomi Henderson
Fine Art: the course is fairly traditional teaching students painting, photography, portraiture and printmaking etc. I have chosen the more contemporary route with the ISP (Interdisciplinary Studio Practise) module but have also studied art history throughout my time here.
Naomi Henderson
I'm a few months away from finishing my degree. Working with the themes of balance and tranquility, my work is playful and intriguing.
I work with a variety of techniques and materials including embroidery, helium, glass jars, water, OHPs and talcum powder.
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Samuel Zealey, 'Oak on Oak Action', Sculpture, 2007.
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John Harvey, Reuben Knutson and Naomi Pincher, 'Here Everything is Still Floating', Performance, 2010. Photo: Naomi Pincher. A one day installation and performance. Based on sound and drawing: exploring their relationship using balloons, a guitar, sound loops, tin foil and OHPs.
# 1 [18 March 2010]
Last week I managed three exhibitions in 7 days. This week I'm struggling to see where I am, and more importantly where I am going.
Theres something like 4 studio weeks left and I feel rubbish for spending the majority of this one doing research and reading stuff in the library and on the internet.
Still, I think I'm finding my focus again. I've found the motivation today- momentum has been building since yesterday when i started to discover a string of enjoyable artists.
Remember Samuel Zealey? He was a School of Saatchi contestant (the one with the balancing magnets, running machine and tyre, and the boat on the beach*)and having stumbled across his work again- I LOVE IT. There are some themes so close to what i'm working on. Balancing and playful, two words that I'd hope to apply to my own work, suit his work perfectly.
See some of it here:
http://www.artists.de/11520-i-was-so-relieved-it-w...
*this crude summary hardly does any justice to the pieces- its meant to be a reminder of who he is.
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Hi Naomi - just to let you know - that if you're still having trouble with your blog and updating it - I have been in touch with the a-n team and they will email you to sort things out. On another point! How do you fancy cracking on with that Blogger profile I mentioned to you last month?
posted on 2010-05-19 by Richard Taylor
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Naomi Pincher, 'Infinity Balloon', Performance, 2010. Tie a balloon to the end of a reel of cotton. Let go.Wind it back in if you want.
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Wolfgang Laib, 'Milk Stone', Sculpture, 1998-2000.
# 2 [19 March 2010]
Had a really good tutorial today: its good when you know that you could show your work tomorrow if you were needed to. Discussion lead to a presentation solution for my drawing piece and a sort of structure for the work together in the final show.
I'll also be showing the remnants of Infinity Balloon, although i'm yet to work out exactly how. The cotton reel itself has become a eloquent record of the process. There are photographs too, I'm not sure they are necessary or good enough.
It came about through a little play on monday (turns out all the best work happens when you're just having fun and don't formalise it too much). To make the work yourself just follow these simple steps:
1) Tie a balloon to the end of the thread on a cotton reel.
2)Let go.
The process can be spiced up by attempting to bring the balloon back down to Earth again.
I've been looking at the work of Wolfgang Laib, his work is so simply beautiful. I particularly love Milk Stone.
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are you interested in submitting the image above - or another image even for the front cover of Degrees 2010? If you could send some copies to my email - richard.taylor@a-n.co.uk -- that would be great. Make sure they're 300dpi, 12cm MAX, and in JPG format. Also send on some captions, title, medium, date etc.
posted on 2010-03-22 by Richard Taylor
oh - didn't notice the image at the top of this post that is yours. This act of simplicity and relationship to performance is interesting: have you come across the French performance artist Marie Cool? take a look at this link -- http://www.sitegallery.org/exhibitions/view.php?id=182 -- I'm interested in your images though... the out of focus quality actually seems relevant somehow - disjointed as it the release of the ownership of your performative act by way of giving instructions in their simple form.
posted on 2010-03-22 by Richard Taylor
Hello Naomi - I wonder if you're coming to the AIR Time event held in Aberystwyth at the end of April? I'll be there as the Degrees unedited online editor: it would be good to meet you. I remember a tutor pulling up Wolfgang Laib as a reference to some of my work back in... 2005 I think now... wow! Do you have any images of your work ready to post up yet?
posted on 2010-03-22 by Richard Taylor
I'm looking at this chap too :) in connection with his meditative approach to practice as a part of my essay "Art, Science & Spirituality". I love the yellow pollen works - he obviously doesn't suffer from hay fever!
posted on 2010-03-19 by Carolyn Shepherd