Sketchbook

Working in my sketchbook of my ideas, including different ways on what my drawings outcome would be. In my crit, they said that my checkered drawings look like pixels, so I tried out this process on Paint Shop Pro/Photoshop and edited some of my drawings to create a pixel-style type of work to see how that resulted. It does look a bit similar, because of the squares. It somehow leads to becoming abstract which I am interested in, maybe I will carry on with this further.

Aswell, I have been looking at Paul Alexander Thornton's work, how his technique is similar to mine as I used pen for my drawings; experimenting on how his technique would work with my own work.

 

Artist Research: Wall Coverings

http://www.byhanna.com/
Hannah Werning

http://www.tsangkinwah.com/
Tsang Kin-Wah
'Tsang Kin-wah’s art combines video, paint, text and photography in a vivid interrogation of morality and the ethics of art. Inspired by the Bible, he combines the sacred and the profane, questioning the limits of both, whilst proposing a moral argument for the necessity of art in a world blighted by natural disaster, and incomprehensible tragedy.' 
(http://theculturetrip.com/asia/hong-kong/articles/tsang-kin-wah-and-the-organic-necessity-of-art/)

Researching these artists because they have incorporated flowers and pattern in their work. I am interested in their use of colours for their bold artworks and placing the artwork on the wall. I want to attempt to create this type of work, having them displayed to cover the space in the room. Wanting to gain a reaction from the audience by displaying it in this kind of format.

Gravity - Keith Harrison

http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/c/keith-harrison/
His main pleasure is the act of drawing, creating it on the page. He uses music as a time frame in his work, music is more a part of his work and the use of sound. His work is quite ordered and controlled, with him pre-testing the work and the actual test at his performance. The change of the material from one to the other as a metaphor, the idea of transformation. The criteria of success is getting the work out there, making the effort through the process.

 'Float', 2011

Transmission - Cally Spooner

http://www.callyspooner.com/
An event based practice, making live work for cameras. She is interested in movement of speech. An aspect of her work is the relationship between performance and labour. Also, she interested in entertainment as she trusts this mode with key texts of philosophy. She wants to create a certain difficulty in the viewing experience on the endurance test with the duration of the films. She uses theatre as a part of the language and having the theatre coming from the voice than the image, as well as a reference.

She gains the audience's attention with the entertainment element in her work, having her work being heard. It can be humorous or uncomfortable, depending on the subject matter. Putting politics and entertainment together to create enjoyable work.

Interesting Artworks

Leeds Art Gallery 2013

Frank Avray Wilson 'Object for Meditation I & II', 1958

Fiona Rae 'Present Party For You', 2012

Art Sheffield 2013 (04 Oct - 14 Dec)

http://www.artsheffield.org/
Festival of Contemporary Art

Exhibition - Henry Moore (Leeds) 2013

http://www.henry-moore.org/hmi/exhibitions/past-exhibitions/2013/indifferent-matter-from-object-to-sculpture

I went to see this exhibition because it is related to my art context subject 'art and materiality'. Looking at objects and their meaning, this was a great exhibition to see how the objects resist their origin on how humans have named and accorded them. It is questioning on what a sculpture is by rethinking a different way to display the artworks. The exhibition explores how the matter can be both indifferent and contingent on encounter; exploring possible meanings.

Felix Gonzalez-Torres 'Untitled (Placebo)', 1991













Steven Claydon 'A Setting for Ambivalent Objects', 2013
Andy Warhol 'Silver Clouds', 1966.