Pictures for Exhibition in Paper Gallery

Posted: May 11, 2015 | Author: | Filed under: subject | Tags: , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

lobsterThe theme for the group exhibition was 1.2.3.4 which we could interpret how we wanted. For my images I wanted to make one image with one object, one with two and so on. My first image is of a lobster (which I actually had to buy) frozen in ice. I wanted to show the transparency distortion caused by the ice and its contrast with the emerging lobster. I wanted to use classical still life objects but combine them with more modern elements; in this case the rubber band and the ice, in the others it tends to be plastic packaging.
latticeTwo fruit lattices in a paper bag with a plastic strip. I quite like the rendering of the different textures in this painting, during the painting the object was throw away by the cleaner so I had to buy another one. This means that the plastic panel is not as accurate and has been made up a bit. plumThis is three plums in a plastic bag, it was quite enjoyable painting this as the plastic provided a challenge. The  trouble was that the plums ripened during the process of the painting and thus changed colour, they were probably a nicer colour at the end but it was a bit late as I had already done the highlights.fishThe last is four fillets of peppered mackerel in a vacuum sealed pack. This was the hardest of the four to paint as it as all the details were tiny even when blown up to this scale (A2). I was also concerned that some people didn’t realise that the actual object was vacuum packed, maybe this effect was too subtle for real life. This one does seem a little bit flat in some areas.

1.2.3.4 – Group Exhibition

Posted: April 26, 2015 | Author: | Filed under: subject | Tags: , , , , , | Leave a comment

11078248_389093804608286_3253718092883089041_oMe and two other colleagues have organised an exhibition of our work. It will be displayed for a week in Bristol’s Paper Gallery and will feature work for sale from each of us.

http://paperarts.org.uk/Gallery/

Displaying my work: Mushin Museum and The Thin Gallery

Posted: December 13, 2014 | Author: | Filed under: subject | Tags: , , , , , | Leave a comment

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Working with Emma Harry, class mate and curator of The Thin Gallery located in the art school, my work was put on display with the artefacts from the Mushin Museum. I was not too fussed about how my work was displayed so I allowed Emma creative freedom to do as she pleased. It was Emma’s plan to present the paintings very closely to its relevant object and to leave off any information. A box next to the display invited people to respond to objects on small pieces of card, this was done through words or illustrations. Then the information was put up and the contributions were included into the exhibition, they ranged in what they thought the objects were. Quite a few though hinted towards a sense of unease and a dark quality often combined with a medical aspect. Wether the results would have been the same if my paintings had not being displayed alongside them I don’t know but I don’t think they in any way discouraged the notion.

Curating the IN GALLERY (Week 8 – Mushin Museum objects of Anaesthesia)

http://www.mushinmuseum.org.uk

Drama/Drawing Seminar and The Corridor Gallery

Posted: March 21, 2014 | Author: | Filed under: field | Tags: , , | Leave a comment

Firstly we were presented with photos of us working in the gallery put into a snazzy presentation for the Modern Alchemists website. This followed by a presentation by Natascha Mayo on her work. She was attempting do use drama drawing to find a new artistic method, she looked at many case studies taking what she liked and leaving what she didnt. She wanted to have interactive art with no set outcome which would be influenced by those taking part, but which also puts drawing to the forefront. We were shown a work were children were put in a paper oated room with a projector and told to draw elements of a story which they made up as they went along. The story stemming from a backpack they were presented with, asking questions like whose is this and why is it abandoned. We were also shown work from a collaborative show that Mayo was involved in which centered around drawing and featured a wide range of work.

Following this we were taken to the corridor to the canteen in university where we were to display any items of our work from the whole project. We were meant to place our work next to one of the six quotes on the wall, picking the one we felt fit best. The one I felt best matched the work I did in bridge street was; ‘There are things in front of us that we can only perceive if we have the framework.’ Clara Ursitt, The Phenomenology of Olfactory Perception, Art and Research: A journal of ideas, Contexts and Methods Vol.2, 2008. As I felt this worked quite well with the images which are about understanding objects via their framework.

Sadly someone who had done a wall-sized piece also who liked this one, so I decided to wait and see what spaces were left as most of the quotes hinted at similar ideas. With many people hanging huge pieces of paper and other spaces being reserved for work of people hadn’t shown up there was no space left.