Fur Ein Fest Gemacht (Made For a Party) 1936, collage Hannah Hoch was a German artist emerging at the beginning of the 20th century. She was one of the pioneers of photomontage and was renowned for her collages. Friends with […]
I have been keeping all of the faces I had used the eyes from for my pieces from last year. These have been cut out a bit more delicately than the ones I have been doing recently, but I find […]
I decided to collage the dolls house in eyes, I have had a fascination with eyes for years. My first year project looking at psychedelia used prints and paintings of eyes, as well as seeing many of the artists at […]
This is a mixed media collage on canvas. The face is one of the leftovers after I had used the eyes out of it for another collage last year. I have becoming more and more obsessed with the images left […]
Before I gave the dolls house a thorough clean, I thought I’d take a few photographs of the inside, while it looked like a miniature derelict house. It was a bit of an experiment with scale, to see what tricks […]
After deciding I would never be able to collage my actual home I began thinking about making a mini environment. My first ideas were to create it in a shoe box or making an enclosed environment, but then I was […]
Das Undbild 1919 Schwitters was a German artist linked to Cubism, German Expressionism and for a small time, Dadaism. Creating work for most of the first half of the 20th century up until his death in 1948, I found Schwitters […]
These are three sections of a fantasy collage I have made. The background is a found item of already painted board that I came across in the woodwork rooms. The brightly coloured swirls of what I think is printing ink […]
Richard Hamilton was an English artist known as the ‘daddy of Pop Art’. Creating one of the first widely recognised pieces of Pop Art, Just What is it That Makes Today’s Homes so Appealing? (1956). A collage made from all […]
Using another face I had used the eyes from, I placed it over my original collage and it changed the image again. I quite like the result of this one it fits nicely over the top. I’m growing to really […]
I photocopied and enlarged the original collage to a black and white A3 copy then copied it another four times, zooming by 100% each time. I made two copies of each image then used acrylic paint to highlight certain areas […]
This is effectively the end of the project (although I am going to keep on printing for a few more weeks), having successfully printed a number of gigantic wood relief images in neon colour. I really didn’t expect the project […]
Collage made from images from ASOS Magazine and Harper’s Bazaar The top image is a model from the fashion magazine from the ASOS website while the eyes come from a David Bailey photograph of his wife from an interview in […]
After not being fully satisfied with the results of my Bambi collage, I decided to photocopy the image without the background to see what it would like like in black and white. I find the image in black and white […]
Creating my collage I found the image of Bambi in his normal Disney setting in one magazine and the image of the rabbit from Frieze magazine. Immediately I thought of Bambi and Thumber although this rabbit was nowhere near as […]
<a title="Martha Rosler Reads Vogue" This is a video of Martha Rosler interpreting Vogue. I find what she is saying very apt and am able to relate it to my work. This is a piece of performance art which i […]
I’m trying to avoid writing this blog post for many reasons and so in order to avoid sinking into the displacement depths of cleaning the flat – and that would take several days to make any impact – I am […]
Cleaning the Drapes, Bringing the War Home : House Beautiful (1967-1972) Patio View, Bringing the War Home : House Beautiful (1967-1972) Rosler is an American artist i have looked at in depth and find her work extremely interesting and a […]
After learning about appropriation and detournement in Art and Contemporary ideas, i decided it was a practice i was very interested in and found i could relate to it in some ways with my own work. Based on Guy Debord’s […]
I bet you are wondering, ‘What the hell is the Gallows all about’. Well, I will tell you… I wanted to build a large piece of work for my Degree Show, ‘Spank’. Similar to my Rack, The Turn of […]
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here I’ve compared my current state of mind to that of air traffic control. The items in my head are the planes. Some can circle the airport for a week or two, plenty of fuel, […]
Jo Wright becomes new executive director of Liverpool media arts centre FACT.
