6ix Souls -the end The water screen shows a roughly 13 minute long film on a continuous loop. Entitled Is Death Your Bitter End? it depicts the beginnings of bacterial life, sudden deaths by drowning, suicide, fire, and old age […]
I added a few little touches to my piece that i believe really make the piece come to life. I do feel as if there is a particular atmosphere as i wanted to my piece which i am very happy […]
My piece is called In the Stillness of Remembering I think this sums up my piece exactly. My piece is based on memories and i have set up my installation as though time has been paused in a way. All […]
Day 1 Almost There! Final stages of the large portraits. The main areas to address are the detail around the eyes and to add more life and texture to the flatter areas of tone in order to create volume in […]
Swan Vesta Project. When thinking about the different directions I could go, from my concept of consumer culture and media. I wanted to work with a piece of packaging that most would recognise upon viewing. The packaging of Swan filter […]
Over the last few years, ‘Swan’ has released several different limited edition packets. These designs with strong aspects of British ‘Pop Art’ were a major influence on my practise. So I used an A2 piece of canvas board, I sketched […]
Here you can see more of an idea of what it was I wanted. One interesting comment I had from one of my lecturer’s, was that it reminded them of the works of Sarah Lucas. Particularly her ‘Cigarette’ works, whereby […]
I researched into the history of ‘Swan Vesta’, and found that the origins of the company produced the first striking matches in Britain. I realised that the two traditional colours of ‘Swan Vesta’ where originally red and yellow…….. This was […]
All for one! Who to include in the cluster of portraits in theory seemed a difficult task. In reality it wasn’t. The strong portraits stayed strong and the weak ones in their own right were transformed when placed in a […]
The company lettering I also wanted to use within the work (top, left). I sketched onto foam board and cut out. This I painted the same colour red as the background. The main reason for the use of foam board […]
Robot Project. Even though a lot of my work is in paint and photograph, I have always enjoyed making sculptures, and so wanted to incorporate this into my studio practise. I had this image in my head of a life-size […]
I also felt strongly that it would be really effective to have the robots eyes replaced with a small television screen. This screen would help me to show advertising on a more visual level. I started playing around with different […]
The head you see at the bottom of the series of sketches (above), would be the original design for the helmet (head) of the robot. As you can see, I have based the structure of it around the television screen. […]
So I designed a basic structure for the body of the robot. Once I had this blue print, I could then think about how the outer shell would fit around the inner skeletal structure. Here is the original design, which […]
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 […]