My Name is Danielle Mayo I am a 24 year old profoundly Deaf student. I am currently studying on the B.A Hons Fine Art coursed based within Wirral Metropolitan College.
I have recently been looking at works based around slavery and how the slaves were deprived and badly treated. This had such an affect on me I decided to research further into this area and chose to look into Sensory Deprivation. This is something I can relate to personally as I am profoundly Deaf.
The work I have chosen to exhibit in this exhibition are taken from my developmental stages of work.
My first piece of work is my own transcription of Sir Eduado Paolizzi 1924-2005”Mandarin Head” to create this I used Navy blue, Black and white oil paint. I combined all of these colours together to create the bluey grey colours and used both dark and light shades to create a depth and texture to my work.
My next piece is a strong image which was very strongly influenced by Eduardo Paolozzi’s “Michaelangelo’s David “1987.I created this monochrome image using charcoal, the fragments of the miss jointed pieces were framed with much darker marks of charcoal. I also created the shadow, light and depth into the image by blending and removing marks from the paper. My third piece of work was my own transcription of Piccasso’s weeping woman. Which I also worked in charcoal to create.
By Fiona Philipps.
FA22- I am planning to continue throughout this module with my research into the human body. I looked last module in particular at our bones and the effects caused by the food we eat.
I have decided to research further into the human skeleton and also my interest in bacteria, blood, skin and our genes.
I have been looking on the internet and in books for images and information. It is quite a difficult subject to research from life without x-rays and microscopes. Sharon has lent me two of her anatomy books which have been really useful though a bit gory!
From my sketches I have started to develop a wire sculpture. I started off planning to make a large artery which I was then going to cover in a calico fabric I had painted to look blood stained. I made lots of different samples. I decided that this was a bit too literal and would maybe look just like a long tube. I have now decided to add more to my artery to create a larger freestanding structure. I have so far created a spine, arteries and part of the pelvis. The pelvis needs some alteration. When placed against the wall I really like the shadows the wire creates, they create another form.
I was really inspired by the work of Sophie Ryder whose work I saw at the Yorkshire Park and have wanted to try working with wire since then. It does take hours and hours though to produce even a small piece and it is also very hard on my hands, I have had lots of cuts, keep the plasters handy!
I am a bit worried that it is taking me such a long time and I am not sure yet if this piece will be a success and as I have to have work ready for our Gallery practice I am starting to get a bit panicky.
I feel a bit stressed and also nervous about our Gallery practice although I am also really looking forward to it. So far our plans and arrangements have gone quite well and I think that once I have created work that I feel ok about I will start to relax and enjoy it all a bit more. I think that it will be a really valuable experience for us all and we will learn a lot from what we do. It’s coming up a bit too quick though!
I have also started this week working on nine canvases which fit together to make one large rectangular shape. On each one I am planning to paint different sections of the skeleton to create X-ray type images. Again I am a bit worried about how this too and how will turn out.
I have lots of other ideas and would like to do some plaster work. I just hope I don’t run out of time.
