This my last post before the Degree assessment and show. Throughout this blog, as I have explored The Patriarchal Society, I have followed the views of the media and press on matters that concern the abuse and control of women. […]
The Birth of Consumer-Bot Using my initial design of the inner structure of the robot, I was able to sketch a wooden structure based on the measurements of me, for a scale I could work with. Once I had these […]
The next step of the process was to start fixing cardboard to the wooden frame. All the cardboard packaging I used, I got from the student shop. I wanted this sculpture to be made entirely from recycled materials, so it […]
One of the problems that I had with the structure was that the masking tape would not hold everything together. This was only temporary, as I had previously thought that if I used paper maché this would help to strengthen […]
Since I painted my space I have mounted all of the keys onto the wall by drilling holes of the same size as the stem of each key into the wall and wedging them in. For the keys which this […]
I mounted my projector on the top part of Ians space today using a stand made from MDF which I measured, constructed and painted black to match Ians wall. I am a little concerned that the image is very feint […]
Here are some more images of the Robot in progress:
Once I had covered the body of the robot in paper maché, I left the sculpture to dry over night. The following day I decided to work on the helmet of the robot. I was originally going to have the […]
Again, once I had taped the pieces together with masking tape, I then covered the helmet in paper maché. It was fairly tricky to allow for the height and the depth of the dvd screen. So I built a platform […]
Here are some images of the progress:
Pepsi/Coke Logo. This idea I originally had whilst I was working on my swan piece. I found a Pepsi logo that I wanted to work with on this project. Still on the grounds of consumerism, I decided about subliminally turning […]
So I drew the circular part of the logo onto a piece of foam board, and then very carefully cut out the shape to be assembled later. Once I had this, I used it as a template, which I could […]
Here is an image of how the work was progressing. This was the collage effect I wanted to obtain. I will say though that, the small pieces of metal are very sharp, so this did make it time consuming, because […]
My piece is a based on a memory of my Great Grandmothers house. However i like the idea of the veiwer imagination, i like to think of this piece also as perhaps a waiting room from a different realm where […]
The Sporting League: Game 20 Universo Collunteen and Pointeso lost a bit of ground at the top as the match finisihed as a cagey one – one draw. Sporting Radio Pundit X: ‘I couldn’t see a winner all day long […]
The Oxo Cube Project The Oxo cube packet I found on Google images, so it was unknown to me who scanned the image onto the Internet in the first place. Without realising it, I decided to use this image to […]
Father…son…father meet son. A minimum wage father and twenty-something hipster emerging artist son in conversation. Father: ‘Aye..yeah…I was doin’ a gardenin’ job on the Pointeso Interstate Zone 34 at the petrol station and this bloke pulls up in a big […]
Once I had done this, I tore up some pieces of tin foil and added them to the compost. This I did because it looked like the foil that the Oxo cubes are wrapped in, inside the box of an […]
To give the piece even more life, I wanted to photograph something with it, which would give the viewer an idea of the scale of the object. This was important, because like Claus Oldenburg with his giant sculptures, I wanted […]
I also took some pictures of the piece outside, because I wanted to make a statement about litter and the throw away society we live in. Although hard to capture the scale of the object, the images came out really […]
Rizzla Series Peter Blake in 2005 made some silkscreen prints of Cigarette packets. These found objects (Modified objects not normally considered art, because they have no artistic function), inspired Blake to incorporate within his work. He used photographs, cigarette packets […]
This I found inspiring myself as an artist, and to follow in the footsteps of the masters of Pop art, I decided that I would do my own series of packaging or objects that appealed to me. This is where […]
This I felt will give them a kind of wall power, as they would look interesting spread out on a white background. Whilst using these objects as art, I also, following the Oxo piece I did, I made a giant […]
Consumer-Bot Once the Robot was painted white, I decided to paint the helmet, hands and feet silver. I wanted to break the logos up a bit around the body of the robot. So I was ready to start placing the […]
The hands were cast and recycled from my first year sculpture module, which were spray-painted silver and screwed to the robot. I thought I could incorporate objects into the hands of the robot, so one hand was holding an electronic […]