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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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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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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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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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Following on from yesterday's workshop I decided to work with ink on big sheets of paper throughout the day creating posters and drawings mainly including instruments that were mainly used to project sound during the feminist movement ( bin lids and megaphones). I tried out overlapping one of each of these instruments to create some sort of pattern which i liked the result of so I will try and expand on this idea on Thursday.

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YOU AND ME

The workshop I chose this week was the You and Me workshop with @eoinmclsad, in the morning we did an exercise on linear drawing with Des using both charcoal and marker for these. This exercise was interesting because it helped give different perspectives and how to draw a thumbnail of a certain area of a room you chose.

In the afternoon we then did life drawing with Eoin with brushes that were extended on sticks using ink, I really enjoyed doing this as it gave your drawings a different look each time you would make one, it also showed me how to apply different methods within my work using resources you wouldn't normally think to use.

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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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In studio today I made a base for a skirt that I had loosely based off of ruffles and folds that would be seen in banners and flags used for rally’s. I then reduced the size of a poster from my primary research and cut out the image and placed them onto the base to create a pattern.

The next workshop I plan to do is the print workshop and I plan to take the imagery used for the top and skirt into the workshop and create prints with the imagery and maybe even print it onto fabric and create a top or skirt. I will try different variations of prints with different elements from my primary research.

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Following up from the workshop yesterday I decided to drape the lettering I had previously overlapped on the mannequin. I chose to drape the letters in the form of a top and skirt, which I liked the look of but would like to expand and alter the look of. When I go back up to work in my studio on Thursday I think I will alter the way I draped the letters by having a plain base for both the top and skirt and attach the letters on top so that the letters are the main focus but have a bit more structure to them.

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In the workshop today I also blew up the text that was used on the banners in my primary research, I then cut them out to drape across the mannequin , I drew a sketch up to help me decide where to place the words and letters and what letters will go where. I'm going to rearrange and try different ways of draping the letters tomorrow in the workshop.

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ASSEMBLE

The workshop I was in today was the paper doll dreams workshop, today we were draping forms we made based off of elements from our primary research we are using for our project.

For the first forms I made I based it off of the ruffles and folds that you would see on banners and flags that are used during protests, the images I used for this were taken from the pictures i had taken of the banners used for one of the rallys that was included in the collection in IMMA.

I drew up a rough sketch of what I wanted it to look like but I didn't keep it exact to the sketch I just went with what felt and looked right as I was working.

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ASSEMBLE

My main primary research for my assemble project is from the collection We Realised The Power Of It by Derry Film And Video Workshop, that is on display in IMMA at the moment. I got the chance to go and see the collection during the summer and this was a big inspiration for my concept for the project as I liked how they showed the women led side of things during the troubles and the sides of the feminist movement during this time that isn't largely spoken about.

I really like how simple a lot of the work in this collection is but at the same time it is very powerful and speaks a lot to you without a lot happening in the images. I also watched the films that were on show with the collection at the time and they give you a deeper insight and understanding of the movement and what went on at the time, so I will go back and rewatch clips of the films to get even more inspiration for my work.