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Tracey Emin is an English artist who is known for her autobiographical and confessional work. The work she produces is a mix of media which incudes: drawing, painting, sculpture, film, photography, neon text and sewn applique.

I chose Tracey Emin as one of my influences because I like how her work is mainly based on female views and I feel like nthis relates to my concept for the Assemble project as my work revolves around the Feminist Movement during the Troubles. I really like her series of quilts she has made as I feel like it tells a story through word and text but through textiles which I find interesting as it's an alternative way of story telling. I also decided to pull inspiration from her quilts as I felt this was something at the time the older generation would have been at home creating blankets and other knitted things for their families.

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WIRE SCULPTURE

So the sculpture is coming along quite nice, and I really like what the mask added to it. I really wanted to make copies of the mask using different materials but I’m limited not being able to use the facilities at LSAD so this will do for the time being. 

I’m really enjoying experimenting with light and I’m getting all sorts of ideas for a possible installation. Going to develop it more and get some more concrete ideas now, but I’m liking the idea of studying body language in animatronics and A.I. technology, or what it is to move like a human. 

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Concept art for the animation I'm making about scientists conducting an experiment on an apple that yields strange results

Going with simple shapes and colours to make animation easier.

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An elaborate version of what I was initially attempting with the 'clay baby' piece before I walked off and let the clay harden like a dope 🙃 Follow @miles_art on Instagram for more incredible images like this one. (Thanks Hazel @k00259005 )

Miles Johnston

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Overview of my sketch book where I have been jotting down rough sketches and ideas and bits of artist research about artists that whose work I enjoy and find relevant to different aspects of my project. I find it very helpful to have rough drawings and ideas down in my book as it allows me to pull certain images and ideas from the paper and use it in my work i’m making in my workshop and studios.

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I decided to blow up another image from my primary research into A3, I then cut out certain parts of the image that I blew up and draped them into the shape of a top. I particularly like how parts of the images had to be lined up during the draping with parts that I had used from different parts of the image I had made larger, I left parts of the face out purposely as I like how it looks irregular and not completely perfect.

I think on Thursday I will also trace out the outlines left from the cuttings of the images to drape onto the mannequin to form a skirt to go with the top that is from the same image but will also look completely different to the top.

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Following up from the concept design workshop on Monday I went into the drawing workshop on Thursday and drew up these two pages of imagery and wording I felt related to my project. The one on the left was just a rough sketch of getting my ideas and concepts down on a page, I then drew up the one on the right which is more connected the feminist movement during the Troubles as this is mainly what my project will be about. This gave me ideas for things I can include in my work during the work shop Im doing in the coming week.

I have decided to do Filoconstructions for my next workshop and will be pulling inspiration from the works of Tracy Emin and Grayson Perry for my tapestry which I hope to make throughout the week.

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ᴛʜᴏᴜɢʜᴛ ᴛʜɪꜱ ᴡᴀꜱ ᴅᴏʀᴇᴇɴ’ꜱ ᴡᴏʀᴋ ᴀᴛ ꜰɪʀꜱᴛ. ꜱɪᴍɪʟᴀʀ ꜱᴛʏʟᴇ/ᴍᴇᴛʜᴏᴅ ᴀᴘᴘʟɪᴇᴅ ᴛᴏ ᴅɪꜰꜰᴇʀᴇɴᴛ ᴄᴏɴᴄᴇᴘᴛꜱ.

ᴋᴀᴛʜʟᴇᴇɴ ʀʏᴀɴ.

ᴜɴʀᴇᴀʟ.

Work from Kathleen Ryan

Kathleen takes moldy fruit and turns them into sculptures using semi precious/ precious stone. She turns conventionally unappealing objects into beautiful sculptures.

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For my workshop this week I chose to work in the clay studio, we started off the day by filling two A4 pages with lines which we then made into A3 pages and inverted them. We assembled different shapes with these pages and assembled them up on our wall spaces, to make them become almost like one piece.

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This week I decided to do another week in painting and carried on making large scale pictures, I tried out using canvas and using a mix of ink to create my lines and etching into the paint before it dried to create patterns and lines. I also had a sheet of newsprint where there was a frame on the borders of the page from when I was in the print workshop so I decided to paint within in the frame and etch the patterns from the cutoffs into the paint, I really enjoyed this as it showed me how I could incorporate my work from print and paint together.

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This week I decided to work in painting with @eoinmclsad I decided to work with big scale pieces of paper to really add as much detail into my paintings as I could and to try large scale paintings. I really enjoyed working large scale I used a mix of ink marks and paint which I really enjoyed doing, for one of the pieces I tried to replicate the marks my prints had when I made my etchings by putting a layer of paint on to the paper and scratching into them using the back of a marker I really liked how they turned out and will be using this method again.

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Today I started working back on small scale with my dry points and using the technique of layering with colours and repeat patterns, I did enjoy this and the outcome of the prints as I felt it gave a close up to certain parts of my plates I was printing from.

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This week I decided to do another week working in the print studio with Suzannah creating more dry point images, I started to explore layering the different designs on my plates and colours which I found really interesting and enjoyed coming up with different patterns and even repeats of the same patterns. I started to work on bigger sheets too which I really enjoyed as I felt like I had more space to not be as neat and precise with my prints compared to how I would have to be with maybe smaller scale paper. I’m happy with how my work is developing so far and I think next week I’m going to take these designs into fashion and find a way to incorporate or even replicate them.

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Mind mapping and brainstorming ideas for the Movement project, the theme i decided to work with was the theme of movement through dance at raves and events which is a theme that I find interesting as these are events I would attended with friends. I also wrote up how I would gather primary research to help me create work for my project.

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On tuesday I spoke to Suzannah about different ways of drawing up sketches to make in print, we spoke about drawing up linear sketches based on how I feel while listening to the music that would be typically used in raves and events. I followed on with this today and drew up more sketches using slightly different techniques and colours.

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On Monday morning I signed up to start my research for the Movement brief in the print studio with Suzannah and Fiona, we started off with thinking of a word related to movement and asking ourselves a series of questions related to the word to help us create work based around this. We then went to the publication station with Fiona and drew up a birds eye view of a journey we had recently taken describing smells, sounds and textures on this journey to help us think of different ways of movement, we then did an quick exercise of quick drawings from an image that is based off our theme.