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FORMS PRACTICE

I begin looking at naked woman references and then create abstract bodily forms inspired by the woman. I try to purposely create an area in the shape that could be filled with liquid.

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A trial, with clay, resin and drain cleaner.

I first clenched a small bit of clay in my hand and then placed it down, I then took those first trials and used them as reference for larger clay sculptures.

I then fill the holes and crevices with said material.

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This is a trial I forgot to post earlier, didn’t work either, the water starting leaking out almost straight away

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First bowl trial

I made a bowl out of plaster by digging a whole in my garden lining it with plastic and then pouring my plaster into the hole. I then put more plastic on top and weighed it down with a pot plant. It was good for a first trial but I must do more to work out what techniques and outcomes work the best.

To waterproof it I will paint a few layers of linseed oil which will soak into my plaster sealing it.

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HOW TIME HAS AFFECTED MY WORK

The first picture is of when I first combined my materials and the second image is 3 days later.

The colors in the first image are much darker, browner, green and over time the blue has really come through and the liquid has seemed to separate. The seaweed has become slightly softer where it has been submerged.

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Anders Herwald Ruhwald

i found it hard to find much information on Anders, but in my own opinion I think he uses ceramics to create these minimalist architectural sculptures. I really like how he uses the site specific environment to lean, balance and place his sculptures.

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Ivana Bašić specializes in sculpture blending various materials, including wax, glass, stainless steel, alabaster and oil paint as well as immaterial elements such as torque, breath, weight, rigidity and pressure. Her work addresses the vulnerability and transformation of the human form and its matter.

“Equipped with a deftly analytical mind full of dark poetry and a taste for flesh, steel, wax, and bone, Serbian sculptor Ivana Bašić explores the fragility of the human condition and invites you to contemplate life’s end — if only you’re willing.

Things I enjoy about her work-

The way she uses materials to form bodily sculptures

Her use of metal and soft fabrics

The way she hangs, and stands the sculptures

The colour, texture and shape

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Olga Balema, installation view One reenters the garden by becoming a vegetable, Kunstverein Nürnberg, Nürnberg, 2015

I enjoy this work and how it uses height and how Olga uses the space to spread her multiple sculptures.

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Deeper artist research on selected artists

Olga Balema- Cannibals       

“Bodily needs also indicate that the appearance of autonomy is an illusion, for the body must incorporate elements from outside itself in order to survive. The need for food exposes the vulnerability of individual identity, enacted at a wider social level in the need for exchanges, communion, and commerce with others, through which the individual is absorbed into a larger corporate body” (Maggie Kilgour, From Communion to Cannibalism).

The sculptures here have ingested other former sculptures, a literal enact- ment of cannibalism. The round bellies of some are greedy and full, pregnant from autoerotic absorption. The latex skin of others is concave around the scaffolding of sharp and unnatural growths. Ingestion threatens the crucial fiction that subjects are autonomously con- tained selves, distinct from their environments, agents of their own interiority. As food moves through bodies, exterior becomes interior and vice versa; object constitutes subject and vice versa.

I enjoy the material aesthetic of Olga’s works, the abstract connotations to bodily forms and the minimalist materials draw me in.

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CONCRETE AND PLASTER??

I am interested in growing material on man made usually plain substances, i will try

Watch this space

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More artist art

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Artist Research

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2nd 2 hour art work,

Oil, seaweed, copper bowl, aluminum, wood

Found material, combining raw, man-made and natural.

I enjoy creating a practice based around the stepping back of the artist and the interaction my materials have with one another. Time and Transformation.

I enjoy combining unnatural materials that create a natural reaction may it be instantaneous or over time. I also like to blur the lines of a clear agent (leading material) I do not find the need for a clear distinction between what affects what (if the oil is affecting the seaweed or the other way around).

Although I don’t intend for there to be environmental connotations I must keep in mind that people may assume this because of material decision. I do on the other hand want to elude to a clinical and abstract aspect to how you portray bodily forms and or skin.

My work may give a post human feel of form because of the abstract and raw materials i choose. Also because of the bludging and extremely abstract way of depicting bodily forms and fluid.

AGENCY- I, as the artist but the material as the agent.

I want my audience to think about the need humans have to control everything. I want to show a different view on how we treat material, I want my material to be seen as an artist, as a creator of expression through how it reacts with other material.

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My failed project, I have realized that this isnt going to work without outside help with sealing and waterproofing the plastic. Everything leaked all over the floor

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So I have to do a second work to do with a different methodology, I am going to focus on deconstruction and observing. I have a few ideas one being automatic art with wax and heat and another being a found object sculpture.

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HA success, I put cello tape around the edges to strengthen the plastic, it worked on a small scale. I ALSO used a flat surface to carry the bag to my studio so the weight would be evenly dispersed. I want to try in a way larger scale but will have to practice first alot more.

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Beginning of my 2, 2 day artworks. Experimenting