A fortnight in Southend I’ve been awarded a Time and Space residency at METAL in Southend and I go next Monday. This means that I get a fortnight of (unpaid) research time away from home, but it does mean that […]
After thinking about what I thought worked and didn’t work from my previous art work I decided to try and work with layering images to see how this looked before I put it into a video formation. The image I […]
good morning. the blossom is exquiste, i picked a huge bunch and the fragrance drifts through my kitchen. stuggling to find images that fit the requirements but im goning on. so here is another image for the day.
The paragraph below in bold is a few sentences taken from my dissertation. I am looking back and joining to my studio practice in areas where there are strong links. English Critic, John Berger in ‘Ways of Seeing’ talks about […]
Referring to post 2. please read or refer to post 2 first, Glass Bottles I wrote ideas, the date and time that I had on to individual piece’s of rizzla, one idea per bottle. I then screwed the rizzla up […]
‘Dacia’ the title of one of my largest pieces is named after the first Romanian settlement 100 years BC before the birth of Romania, my native country. The painting is composed of imagined archaic shapes, relics, fossils and hybrid forms […]
Hamish Fulton- Dissertation Links The bold paragraphs of text are extracts taken from my dissertation. Hamish Fulton is a walking artist whose articulations towards the natural environment are strongly influenced by the physical aspects of the walks he takes and […]
Going back to the last few posts, I talked about Hambling’s installation ‘War Requiem’. I mentioned about doing a video of my textured self-portrait and I have now created one and uploaded it to youtube. The video is 3 minutes […]
Artist Research: Since I have been looking at video installations I decided to look at other artist that uses videos in their own work to see how they use them to create piece. The first artists that I looked at […]
After looking at the work of Gerhard Richter I wanted to research more into other artists that use a similar technique of painting with a squeegee. I wasn’t necessarily looking for artists that have the same subject matter as what […]
Reflection! Lets start from the very beginning… The swollen images I posted in blog post 18 are photographs of my flesh in a different state. Through out my project I have been looking at my flesh in different ways and […]
‘Da Funk’ is titled after a Daft Punk song and in it is a couple of intertwining figures. The setting is an open room with windows showing the tropical fauna. The language is surreal and sexual, and draws parallels to […]
Another example is the alert reality envisaged in ‘Midnight Rambler’ a painting that captures the wild life – tribal, sophisticated and primordial.
Small experimental works Currently all my small scale mixed media works are taken from my first set of darker gloomier images. Some of them however are depicted lighter or more vibrant in my paintings. This tells me that I do […]
In ‘Mr. E’ I am inventing a head from tiny hybrid shapes. The head is disappearing and forming like an identity cocktail. This is my turbulent visual grammar – disturbing, compulsive and floral.
Artist Research: Douglas Gordon I have been looking at Douglas Gordon and his video installations he is a Scottish video and installation artist. His work is often based on a disruption of perception; by making his audience aware of their […]
Construction Project Day #17 On day 17 I wanted to employ as few materials as possible to test a new idea. The configuration of a tripod using three primary coloured sticklights allows for a saturated glow around the whole space […]
Dissertation: In my dissertation I looked at how female artist have explored in depth the representation of women throughout history through their art work and what I have come to realise is that I am documenting my own history with […]
Through out this blogging process, i have found it helpfull to logically anailyse my thoughts and ideas through out my work and thinking process. I have also found it helpfull with aranging ideas and because i am looking at each […]
As has been previously mentioned within this blog, my use of family photography throughout this project has meant that I have produced all of my prints in a 6×4 format to match that of the original image. Whilst producing my […]
Projection After working with the images and over lapping those to create this double layer look. This idea has then leaded me on to wanting to work again with video but maybe playing the video so I am facing myself. […]
Catholic Blood work by Artist Andrea Molodkin a contempoary artist from Russia. This Image is from his exhibition at the Void Gallery in Londonderry. The Exhibition shows blood donated by catholics, the blood is pumped from a basement room of […]
Today I have been completing the next stage of my process in bringing together mixed media, painting, projection and etching. After completing a mixed media background and letting it dry, today I was able to project my chosen etching plate […]
I have been discussing with my lecturers about what I plan to do in my degree show. I have come up with an idea which I may or may not use for my final degree piece. I really want to […]
Have you ever tried getting blood from a stone? Well I feel like I have this last week. A few weeks ago I wrote about trying to set up the first Art Trail for my local town. I was feeling […]