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Degree Show
This is my set up for my exhibition in this years degree show. I chose to create a small line up of pieces as some of my pieces were very large, some very bright and some just didn’t seem to […]
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Sunlight and Sugar Paper
I discovered this completely by accident when I left one of my paper cuts on top of a piece of sugar paper in the sunlight for a few days in my studio. When I went to move the piece of […]
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Small and sweet
I made these 12 small pieces out of postcard sized white card to create a small series out pieces in contrast to the rest of the much larger pieces. It was interesting to work on such a small scale as […]
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Large Green Mathematical Pattern
I found this piece to be particularly challenging for myself due to the size and the complexity of the pattern which had to be completely drawn out. Each line had to be the exact length as the other in the […]
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Five Layers and Solid
I spoke a while back about aspirations to create larger pieces of my triptych except resulting in more layers and to have solid pieces that hadn’t been cut out of the design to create a much more solid and complex […]
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Trace
After having a lecture about trace artists last year it occurred to me at the beginning of the year to collect each piece of paper that I have cut out, almost as a negative space idea. Over all this time […]
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Silhouettes
I experimented with silhouette work inspired by Kara Walker in my work and attempted to do so in the dark room in our university. I ran into some issues when attempting to document the silhouettes. To create the silhouette was […]
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Broken piece, Interlacing
One of my pieces had unfortunately been broken by someone putting their foot through it when it was residing on the floor and tearing a piece approximately 15 inches long across it with their foot. This gave me the idea […]
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Future Works
I have many ideas in mind for my future works, all of which this blog has helped to inspire me, helped me experiment with and helped me reflect on. Firstly I will be working with Solid colours interacting with Patterns […]
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Past Work and Development
When looking back at my past works and how my work has developed in the past year has really made me appreciate how far I’ve come in my medium and how much further I can go. When I first began […]
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Triptych
Finally Completed my Triptych which was posted about quite a while ago. I felt that by making 9 of the triptychs that it would look most interesting like that, due to the different colour variations, similarities to each other and […]
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Karla Black
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 […]