Degree Final Year Blog

Here is some work I submitted for the Fine Art Auction my course held on the 10-03-2015 at UCS Ipswich. The auction was held to raise money for the Fine Art Degree Show which will be happening in the beginning of June. It was a successful auction, with almost every piece of work being sold. This was the first time I have submitted a piece of work, and also to sell a piece of work. It didn’t go for much, but to me that isn’t the importance. I’m really grateful that someone was interested in having a piece of my work, let alone bid for it!
It was a great evening, with amazing team work from my fellow course mates. A successful evening all round!

Here is some photography work by the artist Glyn Davies. He used nude models and took images of them in the welsh landscape. I was really intrigued by this work as it used the landscape of my home. It is very raw material, and by using nude models I feel it personifies the landscape, and shows the intimate relationship between landscapes and human’s. Both are most beautiful when at their most natural. The images also demonstrate the small scale of human’s compared to the incredible landscape/universe. This is what draws me to a landscape, as it makes the problems and worries of everyday life seem insignificant in comparison. The work Glyn Davies created was the result of a three year project exploring fragility and vulnerability when human’s are exposed to the elements of the natural landscape.

He said: “The landscape is so huge or the weather is so incredible. You’re standing on a knife-edge ridge on a mountain and you somehow need to put scale into the images. Partly (for) the scale and partly for that sense of vulnerability – of being in a big, wild landscape. The problem is if you stand there in your latest Gore-Tex kit, your mountain boots, crampons and ice axe there’s a sense of still being removed from the landscape and from the elements.”