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Visiting Artist
George Rippon
21/4/2021
George Rippon was accepted onto a residency, and some of the people he had met during this time, contributed to a series of work made. Nine silhouettes were painted on walls, these silhouettes were of a few people from the residency the same year as Rippon. The silhouettes are all equal standing with no hierarchy, opposite these, stand metal bin cans, which were from the basement of his father. Rippon made this series of work to reflect and celebrate his time on the residency.
George Rippon‘s work above.
George Rippon was accepted onto a residency, and some of the people he had met during this time, contributed to a series of work made. Nine silhouettes were painted on walls, these silhouettes were of a few people from the residency the same year as Rippon. The silhouettes are all equal standing with no hierarchy, opposite these, stand metal bin cans, which were from the basement of his father. Rippon made this series of work to reflect and celebrate his time on the residency.
Taking on board what Rippon had to say, I made this art piece called “opposites collide”. I was meant to move into a student flat, which was a new build, however, the building was delayed, in the end I never moved in. I was put into another student accommodation building elsewhere in the city, my flat mates ended up being dentist students, and I am an art student. At first glance it may be seen that this situation would not work however, despite being very different, it has worked out brilliantly, having the dentist students I have learnt new things, have had different conversations and it has all fuelled my artwork, bringing together art and medical.
I borrowed a few dentist books from my flat mates and medical equipment that they will use in their clinics, I collected some of my art supplies and put both these elements together, to make up a sort of display case, as would be seen in a museum. Despite being different people, these items displayed together show that we can live together equally in harmony, side by side. Just as Rippon made his series of work as a celebrate to his time on the residency, I have made “opposites collide” to celebrate my time living as an artist with dentists.
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Visiting Artist
Tai Shani
14/4/2021
Tai Shani’s art practice includes performance, film, photography and sculpture, these themes take inspiration from histories, narratives and characters extracted from forgotten sources.
Tai Shani's work above.
Taking this into account, I had made a conceptual art piece called “Genesis Chapter 3 + Matthew 27″, which took inspiration from narratives and characters from the bible, which I saw similarities to Shani work. I used the bible in relation to the story of Adam and Eve and the crucifixion of Jesus. This Piece was installed the apples where alive a representation of Jesus, but once I came to take down the piece the apples had died, figuratively to the story of Adam and Eve and Jesuses death.
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Visiting Artist
Kevin Hunt
24/3/2021
Hunt makes sculptures from discarded found objects and turns them into something new. These objects are usually non-functional, hunt changes their functions, in the attempt to question what an object is and can they function as sculptures. He has said that he takes inspiration and objects from charity shops, including stores such as Poundland and Home Bargains.
Kevin Hunt’s work above.
This is how I’ve responded to Kevin Hunt’s work, taking inspiration from his use of discarded objects and creating something new with them, and from this being able to turn an object into a functional sculpture. I sorted my source from the supermarket, buying foods that I deemed as similar to Hunts work, but as miniatures, I bought onion rings crisps and hula hoops, then they were mailed to a wall.
Kevin Hunt’s work above.
I bought a pack of Maltesers and put a drawing pin in both sides of the ball, then the balls were glued together, I wanted the piece to stand up right by its self, however this wasn't possible, so I laid it down, then photographed it. I chose Maltesers because I found them to be a similar shape and colour.
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Change
Since the Easter break where I tested out new ideas, made art at my home studio and carried on with the collaboration. Being back home in the studio gave me time to think and reflect on what I’m doing, I felt happy in the moment just making art, one of the reason I wanted to do an art course, because it made me happy, however in these times its been hard to produce art for the fun of it. And I thought to myself I’m bored of all this writing I have to do for an art course, so i was going to stop and rethink things. Students are asked to reflect on the visiting artists, and it came to me, this ‘Reflection’ is pretty open for interpretation and its my blog so I should be able to reflect the way I want. So I’ve decided for the remaining visiting lectures, I am going to make artwork in reflection and relation to the visiting artists own work, using them for inspiration.
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DOCUMENTARY
Basquiat: Rage to Riches
10/03/2021
This week I watched the documentary about Jean Michel Basquiat, ‘Basquiat: Rage to Riches’ (Dir: David Shulman, 2017). The documentary celebrates how after 33 years since Basquiat since, he is still at the forefront of the art world, with a 2017 auction selling his Untitled skull painting from 1982 (as seen above) for over 100 million dollars. Moreover, the documentary goes deep into Basquiat’s personal life, taking the viewer on a new discovery of what Basquiat faced, for example money, drugs and racism. Racism seemed to be at the heart of his work, with Basquiat tackling the racism head on, using his art as a weapon.
An example of this was in a 1983 campaign where “Basquiat used his art as part of a protest movement following the beating to death by NYC transit cops of a friend of his - Michael Stewart”. The situation scared Basquiat as the reoccurring thought that this murder could have happened to him. http://milenaolesinska.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_87.html
The soul of this documentary is the fundamental art produced by Basquiat, in which he personified the expansion of modern art, bringing together literature and symbols into his paintings. The text features include “codes, acronyms, letters, numbers, pictograms, logos and maps”. In early graffiti, street artists would put a crown over their name if they thought themselves to be worthy; the crown is a recurring symbol in Basquiat’s work. There is an energy to be found in Basquiat’s work, the same feeling I get when looking at artists such as van Gogh, Picasso, and Jackson Pollock. It was like Baquiat took all the best elements from each of these artists to create his own masterpieces. Furthermore, the works by Sylvester Stallone’s bear similarities to Basquiat’s style. An example of how Basquiat's became so influential and mainstream. http://milenaolesinska.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_87.html
During the course of the documentary, we learn that Basquiat was hit by a car when he was a young child and while recovering in hospital his mother gave him a Gray’s Anatomy book, from which Basquiat’s fascination for the human form and construction began.
From this documentary, the audience gains an insight into an artist who was being pulled towards public acclaim and at the same time struggling with his own pain, struggling with racism, the dog-eat-dog nature of the artworld and the overwhelming fear that one day he would find himself being regarded as a ‘flash in the pan’ artist. Moreso, the bitterness he had that one day his work would become a commodity; mirroring the opening scene of the documentary where one of Basquiat’s skull paintings was sold for over 100 million dollars, indicating that his work has become more about the price rather than the art, giving the impression that great art and artists are only deemed ‘Great’ if their works have a ‘great’ price tag. I wonder how Basquiat would see this if he were still alive today, maybe he would be overwhelmed to know his art was being sold for extravagant prices, but possibly at the same time disappointed to know price has become his legacy.
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DOCUMENTARY
Phyllida Barlow
24/02/2021
Barlow has spent many years being ignored by the art establishment; however, she has now hit international art stardom in her 70s. In 2017 she was chosen to represent Britain at the 57th Venice International Art Biennale.
Barlow struggled to establish her works in galleries and exhibitions, which took her to putting her smaller sculptures in friends' houses as a means of some sort of display. The art was positioned on household furniture such as TV’s, pianos, ironing boards and armchairs; showing confidence as they have all been positioned in places that could not be overlooked or missed with the furniture becoming plinths for the works like a trophy.
At first inspection Barlow's sculptures are massive, playful and seem unstable. They give the impression they have been taken out of a cubist painting like a Pablo Picasso or Salvador Dali, turning a painting into a sculpture, appearing disorganized and unstable. However, this is the art form, making an object seem unfunctional but at the same time stable, with the piece coming together by means of organized clutter, yet still retaining their purpose. Barlow’s work is about making mistakes, but also being in control of these mistakes, the artwork takes on the form of coexisting with humans, as all humans have imperfections, but we can be in control of them, turning them into uniqueness; to live is to make mistakes, they show existence. Barlow took inspiration from slapstick comedies from the 1920s with artists such as Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Laurel and Hardy. In ‘The Home Wrecker’ (Dir: Jeske, 1923), whereby in the process of building a house, Laurel and Hardy also destroy it, meaning the house loses its functions, however, in the process of destruction a new and different function has been made through the eyes of Barlow who sees a brighter side to destruction and imperfections.
Many of Barlow’s works are untitled, as she classifies them as “unnameable things”. By doing this, an object does not become just one thing, it has the possibilities to be endless, it becomes more meaningful for the audience as they are the ones to decide what the piece means to them, deciding on a title specifically for themselves.
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MA STUDENTS
Joshua Cook MA students
17/02/2021
I cannot remember very much about the meaning of this MA student's work; however, what I do recall is how I was feeling while watching the piece, constructing my own meaning of his work. My first reactions were in making a connection to Francis Bacon, specifically Study from Innocent X (1962).
Bacon and Cooks works were set in a red room, boxed off, with the nude model’s sitting in unusual positions. Unlike Bacons distorted face features in his paintings, Cook used objects such as a mask to perhaps convey this message through symbolism; by covering the models face, Cook has taken away their identify, which draws parallels with Bacon, as he too seemingly takes away his models identity and reconstructs them into whatever he wishes. Cook has reimagined a Bacon painting, by bringing a touch of modernism into his work such as film and streaming media platforms, for example YouTube. Because the spectator on the other side of the screen can see a human-being in the flesh, the piece becomes more relatable, as the viewer gains a sense the model is ‘real’, similar to watching a compelling character on TV. Instead of using a flat surface, Cook has utilized the human body as a medium, taking on a sculptural form.
While watching this piece I was lost for words, feeling unsettled and nervy, because of these mixed emotions, the viewer could be overwhelmed as they have been made to feel uncomfortable; however, if the piece is seen as a performance from a screen, the viewer has been overcome with different emotions, meaning it has been successful in stimulating a response in a positive or negative way. Cook has encouraged the viewer to have their own feelings towards the piece, wanting to extract raw emotion, bringing deep forgotten emotions to reality to be faced head on
The piece feels very much self-expressive, as in life we may all suffer with problems that are not easy to depict in words. Cook has possibly demonstrated that art can be the means to expressing one's feelings, when words cannot necessarily convey. By doing this, we shed our burdens by releasing them to other people, making our lives a little less strained. A self-expressive performance piece could be seen as the audience serving as a consoling shoulder we lean on in hard times.
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Collaboration
I have been working on a collaboration with another Fine Art student since Christmas, she sent me photos of her and her sister when they were young children and babies. I have sent her photos of myself with some of my family members when I was a young child too. We can do anything we can think of with the other persons photos, it is down to the individual. Once we are both finished, we will put both our works together as one big art piece. This was a good exercise to learn and try out some new stuff, it was a good way to get more ideas flowing for other art pieces.
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END OF MARCH
Finished a series of work that I have been working on since last summer. Gold leaf smile faces. Putting a price on happiness. Started with drawings, then digital then real thing.
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OVER SPRING BREAK I TESTED OUT SOME NEW IDEAS.
1. I made some testers relating to the senses, I have been thinking of making my art more inclusive to more disabilities such as the blind, as blind people are not able to see art through their eyes, I started thinking how I could use the other senses. I began mixing paint and baking soda and applying the mix to canvases and setting in the oven. Once set, the mix becomes very hard, hard enough to touch without damage meaning blind people could feel my art.
2. I went on to mix spices with paint, in the aim for the smell sense to be activated, putting certain spices with certain colours, for example red being represented by chilli powder, this was also applied to a canvas.
3. Lastly, I put both these ideas together for one last piece, touch, and smell, I mixed paint, spices and baking soda together, meaning the work can be touched and smelt and also to seen by slight abled people too.
4. I was also painting directly onto bubble wrap, as this is tactile and I thought it also looked very cool, 3D art on a canvas.
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I was also testing out different ways of drawing, which might become a painting one day. I made free hand drawings being expressive, looking more at the image I copied from than the drawing. I didn't want to spend too much time on one drawing. The drawings consists of a self portrait while on the Camino De Santiago, a woman I met on the Camino, a Spanish man I photographed while on the Camino, a portrait of my dad and my imitation of the “Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin” By Vincent Van Gogh.
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“SEND IT”, OTEHR PEICES I MADE FRO THE PROJECT IN RESPONCE TO DIFFERNT WORDS.
Model human heart prints on canvas.
Silicon mould, water and red food colouring, for the frozen heart to stay alive it needs to be put in a freezer just like a heart transplant.
Acrylic paint injected into the back of bubble wrap, then stretched around a canvas.
Sleeping pills glued in a grid pattern on a black canvas.
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THROUGHOUT TERM 2, I PARTICIPATED IN AN EXHIBITION PROJECT “SEND IT”
As group we decided on words individually, sent them to the group, we decided for our selves what words we wanted to make art from. The word I gave to the group was “Heart”. From this we make art, which was photographed and then put into a catalogue book. This was the basis of our exhibition, a book that could go public is our representation of the exhibition.
The heart is said to be the same size as the clenched fist, from this I painted a heart onto the palm of my hand, tested this out, didn't like the out come. I then decided to paint the heart in sections, I settled on this. I began by painting the palm, then the fingers. Slowly but surly eventually making up a complete heart.
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CLING FLIM PAINTINGS REAL THING
Over the months after making the digital images, I made the real art pieces, I used hula-hoops, industrial cling film, staples and spray paint and household paint. I stretch cling film around 2 trees, i make a giant canvas, as long as it feels strong and tight, I cut in down and roll it up, it is taken to my studio, where I lay it flat on the floor, and with my hand run my hand across the sheets, taking out any air bubbles. Once I’m happy, I lay hullabaloos on top, cut the sheet to size, then stretch it around the hoops while I use a staple gun to hold it together. After this, the pieces are painted, then left to dry. They may have a few more layers of paint after been dried, depending on how they look.
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CLING FILM DIGITAL
I photographed stretched out clingfilm, and changed the lover lay colors digitally.
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CLING FILM FOLDER
Same thing here, photos from the folders I made over summer, with new ideas of using cling film compared to the previous year where I was using cling film just as a canvas fro other works. In the folder, photos of other artists works that I found to fit with my ideas have also been added. The colour pallets I had been looking at has influenced the following works.
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COLOUR
Throughout the year I have been looking at different colour pallets, using them as inspiration for colors to use in future bark painting or other pieces of my works. These are the ones I studied the most.
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