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Sketch Book

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Research

Sarah Lucas

Sarah Lucas’s challenge sexual stereotypes and conventional morals with her interesting creative self portrait.

I really like the way sarah Lucas uses humour in her pieces, she used two fried eggs to create a parody about the stereotypes of the female body.

This is a play on how the female body is frequently looked at as just a snack by the males.

Sarah is constantly causing us to questioning gender stereotypes.

I wanted to create an image similar to Sarah’s that would have my audience constantly questioning a mothers place in a home.

I printed two dodo on the breasts of a t-shirt, this was to show the importance of motherhood and a play on the importance of women’s breasts to baby’s.

I then recreated Sarah’s pose with my mom in order to create a similarities between the two photos.

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Week 6

Print

For my second week of print I wanted to capture the importance of motherhood, and how being a stay at home mom isn’t something a woman has to be embarrassed.

I gathered a few images I felt represented motherhood and I decided the dodo was the best to create a stamp from.

I created a stamp, I sketched a dodo on a piece of link and using tools I hollowed out the background. (I was able to do this thanks to the knowledge I gained from the print Seminar)

I then created a baby pink and baby blue colour to represent baby’s.

I rolled the ink onto my stamp and created a few different designs onto a multiple different pieces of paper ( both black and white)

I was inspired by the gorilla girls to create more poster but this time to represent the importance of motherhood, and a strong female figure.

I was inspired by Sarah Lucas to create a feminist T-shirt for mothers.

I practiced the stamp on fabric and a few different angels to get the desired look for t shirt.

I marked the T-shirt where I wanted the dodos to go and I stamped two dodo in the breast area. ( made sure stamp was very clean in order to avoid colour transferring)

Once I was happy I photographed the T-shirt on a black background and recreated Sarah Lucas icon fried egg photo. I used my own mom as the model to really get my message of motherhood and feminism can go hand in hand.

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Research

Guerrilla girls

They began in 1985, in lower Manhattan.

They’re a group of masked women (in gorilla masks) protesting the lack of female representation in museums.

They do this by using bold advertising-style graphics with eye opening facts and figures.

The women often use humour on there posters to really connect more with there audience and get the message across.

They continue addressing extremely pressing issues in today’s world.

I was inspired by this group to create my own protest posters, with bright, bold, striking messages.

I wanted the poster to be easy to read just as the guerrilla girls posters are, I also wanted to capture the attention of my viewers with messages they can connect to.

I also wanted to keep the messengers anonymous so I covered the faces of the girls behind the poster just as the guerrilla girls cover there faces with masks.

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Week 5

Print

I was inspired by the gorilla girls to create a series of protest styled posters.

First I gathered primary research, from females I know. I asked them what was the most sexist thing said to them, and then I proceeded to document it.

I picked a few of these lines I liked and wrote them out on card, using the typography seminar, I was able to pick a style of writing, the best suited my protest posters.

With a box cutting knife I carefully cut out each letter. I repeated this process 4 more times (it was extremely tedious and took a lot of time)

Once done I mixed paint with a small bit of water and using a damp sponge I pressed it down onto the stencil.

I repeated this to the other stencils onto four pieces of paper, there was a bit of trial and error as I forgot that it stamps the opposite way and i was struggling to get the colour more vibrant so that the lettering would stand out more.

Once I had successfully made five from the stamps, I began to think the letters did not stand out as much as I would hoped.

So, to fix this problem, I got paint markers and use them to outline the lettering to make the message more clear for the viewer.

I then photographed each poster on a black background.

With a few of the posters, I wanted to give them more meaning to the viewer, so I decided to photograph them with the girls who had received the messages, holding them up, hiding their face. (just as the gorilla girls do.) by hiding their face, but still seeing a person you were able to reconnect more with the message. 

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Research

Unknown Artist

I was scrolling through Pinterest when I found a striking image of a woman with a disco ball for a head.

I had a certain appeal to this piece and I felt the message was obvious, men do now see her for who she truly is, they can only see one thing when they look at a woman. (A fun time, hence the reason for the disco ball head)

I was unable to find the original artist for this piece

However on my search I found two more images, one called 2 men 1 woman. Which I found extremely degrading.

The other piece looked like a cover for a Christmas magazine.

However it was the first image that caused me to create a series of pieces of women with different heads. ( To show how no matter how we dress or act they only see one thing and we are fed up)

The disco head also reminded me of the Gorillas girls and how they hide there faces.

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Week 4

Painting

I started week 4 painting off similar to week, three painting, we began by doing life drawing once again with the same model, only difference is we were doing it with charcoal instead of paint.

I set up my easel and added 10 sheets to the easel. This time the model took a series of poses, at the start I drew quick five minute sketches of the model. Then he changed his pose and I did a 10 minute sketches, he changed his pose two more times, and I did 30 minute sketches of the model.

At the start, I found it quite difficult to get it done within the time. But after this practice, I realised one stroke with charcoal would speed the whole process up. 

I was inspired by a piece (on A3), where a woman’s head was replaced by a disco ball head.

I was trying to capture how no matter what a women dresses in or acts like men will only ever see one thing.

As a woman I wanted to display the frustration we feel, how a man can be many things but a woman can only be one.

I also wanted to show that once again being feminine does now make you fragile, we can be more then one thing and strong.

I used my life drawing skill I learned in the paint workshop to copy a feminine body.

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Research

Katherine Bernhardt

During the one of our painting power points I was introduced to Katherine Bernhardt, a New York painter expressing her passion for pop culture and all thing relevant to her life.

Immediately I was drawn to her work due to the bright, bold colours and unique patterns she uses throughout her work.

I feel as though you really get a sense of who Katherine is through her work, Katherine lives in Brooklyn, and is surrounded by many ethnicities. She includes aspects of her neighbourhood throughout many of her pieces showing to the viewers what is important to her in her life.

 I was inspired after looking at Katherine’s pieces and reading more about her, to create a piece with all things associated to women that make them fragile, in a bright and loud way, just like she does.

It was important to me to show that these things that make women fragile, don’t make them fragile, just make them feminine and being feminine, does not make you fragile.

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Week 3

Painting

I began week 3 with attending the painting workshop with Silvia, where I took part in a life drawing (of a middle age male model).

I mixed the primary colours together and added white to half and then halved it again and added more white to create different shades of brown.

I set up my easel, the model took his pose and I made a thumb nail drawing, then I was ready to paint.

I began by painting in the outline of the model and then then the background followed by the foreground.

After everything was painted I start painting in the shade to give the painting depth and adding the small details of the model. I wasn’t try to paint the model but the essence of the model.

When we were done painting, we worked collectively as a group to layout our pieces and make sure where each piece went complemented the next.

We then nailed them to the wall when we were happy with the final outcome.

During the week, we also watched a PowerPoint where I saw a piece made by Katherine Bernhardt of all the items relevant to her life.

I was inspired by her piece to create a piece with a similar concept, all the items associated with women.

Most people think these items make us girls fragile but this is not the case, these item make us feminine but to be feminine doesn’t make us fragile.

I’m tired of constantly feeling ashamed of enjoying feminine things, that is why I am often fascinated with feminist movements that also practice feminine tasks.

I created a video of me drawing these feminine things and included an audio over it of Taylor swift talking about how difficult it is to be a women in today society.

After drawing these items (A3 paper) I really wanted then to pop out of the page so I used bright and bold paint markers to fill them in.

I then define them with a black fine liner marker to really make them pop out more. I was very pleased with the final look.

I decided I really like the concept of the paint marker piece and really want to to capture the same message and emotion in a still life drawing.

I set up a few of my makeup products (all the things that make me feminine)and drew them on A2 paper.

I shaded the make up products in vibrant colouring pencils to show how happy I feel with my makeup (how just apply it brings me joy)

I shaded the reflection of the makeup in regular led pencils to show how insecure I feel stepping out into society with my makeup on (I feel as though people don’t understand that I wear it for me and not for men and not to please the male gaze)

I sick of feeling like enjoy feminine activities and items makes me less of a feminist. I can enjoy both.

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Research

Stitch ‘n bitch

Stitch ‘n bitch, is a organisation that promotes knitting, while also keeping on top of feminist issues.

I found them really insightful while researching them for my project as they too are using the concept of “feminine tasks” to try put a stop to frequent feminist issues.

I really enjoyed some of the pieces I found made within this group.

I liked how striking the message was and how it was done through stitching, it shows us using what they believe to be our weaknesses as our strength. As in to say “yes this maybe feminine but I’m still a feminist”.

I was inspired by this group to include sewing/stitching marks onto my ceramic pieces, with striking feminist lines.

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Research

Anna Barlow

Anna Barlow is an artist who creates extremely realistic ceramics sweet foods, so realistic you’d almost be tempted to reach out and eat one.

She uses bright colour to make her pieces really pop, this appeals to me and her audience.

I really like the message Anna is trying to send with her pieces.

It’s obvious the food she’s creating is abandoned and left, you can see this by the melting cones and a certain stillness.

This helped me create my cake in ceramics.

I was inspired to create a bright cake with a knife stuck in it to create a stillness, as if there was an argument, a woman got fed up and stormed out.

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Week 2

Ceramics

My ceramics pieces came out of the killin all in tact, and I became excited to turn them into finished pieces.

I began to prep the ceramic pieces by completely submerging them in water, and letting the clay soak up the water, we did this, so it wouldn’t soak up as much paint and the paint would go on much smoother.

I then prepped the colours I was using by taking a small amount of each and slightly watering them down.

I decided to keep it. The colour is rather traditional well also quite feminine with uses of different shades of pink.

These colours were inspired bye Anna Barlow, I like how she kept her ceramic food extremely realistic.

When I was done painting my cake, I moved it onto a wooden board and saw that the painted left an imprint of a heart on the sheet of paper.

I rather like the impression that it left I thought it remind me of a love heart sweet, So I decided to play around and add a little aggressive feminist message.

I then dipped my cake into the glaze doing 1/2 of the gig followed by the other half.

I then scratched away the glaze at the bottom of the cake, where would be touching the killin to prevent it from sticking to the killin and causing any damage to the ceramic piece.

I was truly inspired by bitch stitch and wanted to incorporate something like that into my clay piece.

I decided to use a marker to draw stitch like patterns onto my two ceramic pieces and keep the colours, roughly similar to my paper 3D pieces I was basing them off of.

I decided to add a little feminist sentence to each one, to truly help the viewer, see how angry women are all over the world.

I was very happy with how they turned out.

 My ceramic cake came out of the killin once again, all intact.

 I wanted to add a feminist quote to my cake like Becca Rae to help spread my message of the feminist movement, and how tired women are all over the world for how they’re constantly being treated and stereotyped. 

I played around with two quotes and I could easily wipe off the quotes due to the glaze making it like a whiteboard and decided I liked that I’m not a piece of cake line more.

I added a ceramic knife, stabbing the cake to really sure how strongly we all feel about this movement.

I was very happy with the overall outcome of my cake.

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Research

Becca Rea-Holloway

Is a female baker also known as the sweet feminist, who’s used her passion for baking to also spread awareness and importance of feminism.

She does so in a blunt way by using harsh and to the point quotes to decorate her cakes with.

I’m really drawn to her work, as it’s an interesting play on a “A woman’s place is in the kitchen” with her baking sweet delicious cakes and then decorating them with quotes that contradict the stereotype of women in the kitchen.

It creates a fun feminist contrast, showing women don’t have to give up females qualities to be a feminist.

I also really enjoyed the fun use of bold, bright and loud colours.

It’s this woman that inspired me to create my clay cake.

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Week 1

Ceramics

During ceramics I wrote down verbs associated with my theme for the movement project “feminism” .

I then used these verbs and various tools to create 2D ink pieces, eg the 4th picture on the tops verb was punch and I used my fist.

I then made a view finder (4x4 inches) out of black sugar paper.

I used this viewfinder to capture an isolated image.

I then picked 5 of my favourite viewfinder images and placed them into the photocopier.

I used what I learnt in the disrupt and reconstruct workshop to create a few images completely different from their original form.

I then cut these images out into the square shapes.

I don’t stock them onto an A3 page, just create a more finished piece.

Then I turned these 2-D images into 3-D images still using paper as my material.

 I did this by looking back and forth continuously at the 2-D image in front to me.

I’ve picked my two favourite pieces and turn them into 3-D. Clay tiles.

I did this by rolling out a slab of white clay, (14x14cm ) square.

From another slab I cut out pieces, and added them by cross hatching and slip.

I made sure to continuously look at the 3D paper template.

For my second attempt I cut strips and curled them and allowed them to stiffen a bit before stretching them out again and adding them by the same process.

I think my second attempt was much more successful in visually capturing the 3D paper piece.

I then decided to progress on from the tiles and use the research I found from the cake movement to create a vintage shape cake.

I made the cake with 3 slabs of rolled out white clay, 1 the base, 2 the sides and 3 the top.

I cut two identical heart shaped slabs and a rectangle, I attached them all by cross hatching and slip.

I then used the extruder to create an icing boarder for the cake, I cut it in half an used the same method to attach it.

I rolled six ball shapes to act as cherries and used a long rolled clay for along the sides.

I made a knife too but due to the heat it dried to quickly and broke.

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Mindmap

Research and Planning

I decided the most efficient way to get started on this movement project was to create a mind map.

The mind map helped me generate idea’s for this project in both what to research and what I should explore in my chosen disciplines.

With this mind map made I’m looking forward to getting a started on week 1 and knowing what direction I want my project to progress in.

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Final Set Up

I really enjoy setting up my project this morning, it was the perfect end to semester 1 and the disrupt project.

It was a good feeling of accomplishment and job well done!!

The final display really brought the whole project together. Bringing each individual pieces together, helped me see the project as a whole.

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Sketch book work throughout the project