As I feel proud that I have discovered my own intuitive process of working, I have recorded my process through the layering development of these canvases in an animation. From the animation you can see this transformation within my drawings […]
Drawing is making a mark in the form of line, shape and form, which can be with any medium even sculptural. It’s a developed understanding that drawing does not restrict you to just using paper and pencil. Drawing has always […]
I have now taken shapes from my drawing into 3D using paper clay, which has brought back an organic connection to the original shell forms. I took shapes out of my drawing compositions, which visually look formal so that I […]
Fran Tring [email protected] Statement: ‘Everything’s Foggy. We have his funeral after the weekend, I kinda, part of me doesn’t want to go because that would be accepting he’s never coming back.’ An excerpt from my diary, shortly before a funeral. […]
Amanda Elliott Fine Artist – Sculptural Installation My work deals with the often anxious, tentative and fragile side of humanity. As an artist I am fascinated by the affect that ‘others’ and the world has upon our sense of ‘self’, […]
So the final strokes of paint at uni. Five years of making work have as an undergraduate have ended with a swoop of neon red oil glaze. One of the first projects I stumbled though in 2007 was to work […]
Hi both Elena – ‘bodies?!’ ……of course – whatever you do with it will be lovely. I look forward to seeing what you do with the embroidery. I have promised myself an early bed tonight. None of my 2pm emails […]
It’s slow going this project at times. Not many turned up to Julies workshop at all, we’re publicising and posting on facebook/twitter etc but still no takers. Bringing people in from New Ferry is as problematic as bringing people in […]
My current project explores animal behaviour vs human behaviour, influenced by the story wolf Alice by Angela Carter I am intrigued by societies forced impact on what humans perceive as normal/acceptable behaviour. set in domestic settings to contrast traditional feminine […]
Beginning the final preparations for the degree show!
Natalie What if there isn’t a happy ending?
Chelsie Wynter [email protected] Statement: This collection is primarily based on the designs of men’s accessories. Using manhood as a starting point of my research I have created a series of pieces. The main focus of the pieces has been to […]
Chantelle Kitchen [email protected] Statement: For an eighteenth century woman of status, the fan became an essential and significant accessory: not only as an effective method of keeping cool but more intriguingly as an expression of her body language. The ability […]
Farhana Alam [email protected] Statement: Geometric forms are fascinating to me, the way basic connecting lines can create a playground for positive and negative spaces. The use of rectilinear shapes such as the square within my pieces is chosen to create […]
Tanya Garfield [email protected] Statement: Secrecy and the ability to translate spoken or written text into a visual language is central to this body of work. Inspired by wartime communication, my work uses Morse code to isolate messages. This work explores […]
Katrina Nolan [email protected] Statement: The act of confession is the basis for this project, contextualised using the Catholic confessional with the aim to explore notions of guilt. The confessional grille, traditionally a flimsy piece of cloth or wood, is semi-transparent […]
Day two of of Brigstock workshops – putting it all together….. Children found it very disconcerting that they left big round balls and found shrivelled things when they came back. Luckily all makes sense (relatively) at the end. To see […]
No blogging = too busy to write. Today was finally a day of not doing much, just a barbecue and eating out in the garden; there was just enough sun to make it reasonably pleasant. I was on BBC Southeast […]
Chaca Jacobsen chacastar.dk [email protected] Statement: Fascinated by the function of objects, Chaca has created pieces that are not merely decorative, but also functional. Sometimes these include a secret gadget element, a dual identity and an evocation of the double lives […]
This is where it has all started for me this year. An image I took at Neema Crafts of the ‘bottle to beads’ process. I love how you can see the molten glass cooling from bright red to different colours, […]
Here is a selection of the finished books with statements from the artists to explain their intentions: Sunny Taylor Shared Ground This book is an opportunity for the viewer to imagine what might occur if many of the beautiful spaces […]
Ron Linn Crossed Paths My project was a result of my experiments in alternative methods of mapping a location. Each page on its own documents a journey taken, with an origin and a destination, connected by a single thread. Viewed […]
Jakub Kreft Layered Reality My book is about sliced perception of reality in a solid/concrete surrounding. Kaleb Ostraff Mersey River The images in my book are taken from a blown up map of the Mersey river. The Mersey river has […]
