These artworks by Panamarenko show a concern in one way or another with flight. He has used material perhaps not suited to the task of real flight but instead show how it could be possible. Like Da Vinci and how […]
One of my ideas from working on ‘period’ made me evaluate my material. What if instead creating red dots with acrylic I created the dots using blood. I spoke with my tutor about this in a tutorial and there would […]
Alexander Calder has created a mobile sculpture, this is using movement by means of the air flow only, but still counts as a kinetic sculpture. Calder has used junk items which looks like they have been found from the beach […]
At the start of this project i had a clear idea in my head of what i wanted to achieve. As time has gone on that idea has changed a thousand times over. The subject of female nude is still […]
Bill Woodrow is an artist who uses Materials found in dumps, used car lots and scrap yards. He puts these items together to create sculptures. He uses inanimate found objects, very similarly to my work and puts them together in […]
Karla Black’s work I really admire because of the draping style that is prevalent in her work, drawing from artistic traditions such as expressionists painting, land art, performance, to formalism. Her sculpture are always large scale and are created from […]
Looking back at where i started and where i am now has told me and showed me how my work as evolved from with a form, something built up, tactile and still to something formless and kinetic. In my earlier […]
Kara Walker is another artist whose work is derived from craft materials. She is known for her large scale tableaux of black cut-paper silhouettes that are influenced by American controversial racial and gender tensions. Her work addresses specific themes of […]
As you can see in the video the use of plastic i feel helps represent the physical bird. The problem i am facing is whether to carry on with the rest of the body of the bird or keep it […]
There are many different applications for this project, it can be left as it is or added to another larger project and used as a separate station to be part of lots of individual stations. I am in the thought […]
I’ve been reviewing this blog, and wondering whether I can still use its title, ‘Narratives and Spaces‘ to refer to my practice. When I began writing this, I was fresh from my collaboration, which involved site specific work that related […]
Working from film was inevitable. It is how many of us go to escape the pressures of everyday life. We exit into a new world of fantasy where we can suspend disbelief for two hours. We invest our energy into […]
A vase prints installation? I been thinking of the things I could do once I have printed enough different designs and colours of my vases. I been planning on doing some research into ways I could sell them online to […]
Why look into Grayson Perry’s vases? Well… I thought about the way I design my vases with Chinese cultural patterns on them and wondered if there was any other artist who does something similar to me. I started to research […]
(The immediate context to this picture is not available as memory, but as learned information, put together from reliable and unreliable sources.) SELF Wed 28 January 2015 (– reflections on early years) I took down my paintings from the […]
A blog giving an inside in the making of a large piece for the Broomhill Sculpture Garden. About finding objects, drawing, model making, material, trials and errors, and hopefully many happy accidents.
Details of the 15th annual pavilion at London’s Serpentine Gallery, which is this year designed by Madrid-based architects SelgasCano, reveal a polygonal structure covered in a translucent, multi-coloured fabric membrane.
Tate has announced the addition of 16 visual arts organisations to its Plus Tate network, including Artes Mundi in Cardiff, The MAC and Golden Thread Gallery in Belfast, and Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh.
Writing this blog has been an extremely useful process, enabling me to look at my themes and ideas and see how they connect. I have found writing down my thoughts has allowed me to develop my concepts and to also […]
I displayed my mugshots in the seminar space to see how they work as a group. By showing the portraits together I wanted to intensify the feeling of anxiety. The women I have portrayed seem to connect as they all […]
I’m pleased to announce that I am one of this year’s finalists in the Broomhill National Sculpture Prize. I will be updating this blog post weekly to show the progress and production of my selected sculpture.
This week as I continued to explore new directions in the studio I found myself in need of a certain pair of eyes to cast their gaze over the latest works to emerge from this ongoing creative project about my […]
