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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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Overview of my sketchbook where I jot down any ideas and sketches I have for aspects of my Assemble project, I also like to include snippets of artists who’s work I find interesting to help give me inspiration and ideas.

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ASSEMBLE ASSESSMENT SET UP

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This week before we set up for assessments and finished up for Christmas Mike had brought in a plastic bin lid that I then filled with plaster to create three solid plaster lids. I really like how they turned out they all are slightly different from eachother in ways, I had thought about painting them to really replicate bin lids but I like how they look as the solid white colour.

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Today I went back up to the print studio and made some more prints using different colours, I also overlapped red over the blue to create the effect of noise from the bin lids banging. After speaking with Suzannah about ideas she brought up a sheet of cloth that could be used to form an apron to show the domestic side of women that would’ve been involved in the Feminist Movement, I then printed onto this using the technique of overlapping colours to show noise, it didn’t turn out as prominent as I had hoped but I’m still happy with the outcome.

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Following up from yesterday’s workshop I made a Lino print with the same images I had used in my workshop yesterday, Lino is my preferred way of making prints. I’m not entirely happy with the outcome as the print didn’t show up as prominent as I had hoped it would, because there was issues with the press in the studio but I will try to print these pictures over the next few days.

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ASSEMBLE

The workshop I chose to do this week for our final week of workshops was the print workshop, We started the morning off by doing mono print which was a really interesting way of creating prints and a method I was yet to try. I created prints using my drawings of bin lids and did one with megaphones too. I liked how the lines were very prominent in the final outcome. We also tried a method where we charged the acetate with ink and rubbed out parts we didn’t want to show up when printed, It really liked this method too.

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Paula Castillo is a sculpture artist from New Mexico who creates intimate and large scale installations, she mainly uses steel byproduct that she then shapes and forms to create her installations.

When I was in the 3D mixed materials workshop I researched some sculpture who worked with metals similar to the one I had decided to use and I liked the work Paula created the most.

While I decided to create my bin lids as linear pieces because I pulled inspiration for them from my drawings in the week previous to this workshop, I also was inspired by Paula’s work as she has some sculptures that are linear in how she displays and how she has formed them, so I decided to try this method of linear work when creating my pieces.