WHERE HAVE I BEEN OH GOSH?

So it really is time that I should start blogging agin otherwise i'm going to become rusty and forget about the whole process of blogging. So what have have I been doing for the past 3 months ten things that i have been doing that my not be of any interest to you at all. Even though I haven't really been making art, I have been reading alot and been trying to view as much as i can over the past 3 months or so. So form this day forward my mini break has ended.

1. I passed my driving test yay me 

2. I turned 21

3. I went to glastonbury

4. I turned 21 while i was in Glastonbury fun times

5. I touched Beyonce Knowles had one of the best moments of my life might I add

6. Finally seen a Glenn Ligon piece of work

Glenn Ligon 

at Nottingham Contemporary 

7. finished 2year and managed to get a good enough grade to get in to 3rd yeah oh the joys of the work that will greet me in 3rd year ... not 

8. I've been working on my groups exhibition catalogue, exhibition will take place at the Maltcross gallery in october

preview of catalogue 

9. I got a tumblr, well i always had one but didn't really use but i like it now- www.itsoktoclash.tumblr.com

10. And finally my dear mother brought me a Mac-book pro its so beautiful it has almost become my little baby

beautiful day at glasto

THIS MADE MY DAY

PLAYGROUND (2010) 

PAPER TAPE AND CARDBOARD ON GROUND 

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK

SO I WAS JUST BROWSING THROUGH THE VAST OCEAN THAT IS THE INTERNET AND I FOUND THIS IMAGE THAT JUST MADE ME LAUGH. THE PIECE JUST SEEMS SOO LIGHT HEARTED, IT MADE ME SMILE. THIS OUTDOOR INSTALLATION IS BY AN ARTIST CALLED AAKASH NIHALANI. HE HAS SEVERAL WORKS THAT ARE DISTINGUISHABLY OF THIS STYLE. THE GEOMETRIC SHAPES HAVE A FEELING OF POP ART ABOUT THE THE COLOURS AND THEIR EASY PRODUCTION. THE WORK ABOVE IS ALMOST COMICAL, NO NECESSARILY UNDERMINING JEFF KOONS WORKS BUT IT LOOKS LIKE HIS CELEBRATING IT IN A WAY. ANYWAYS I JUST WANTED TO SHARE IT BECAUSE IT MADE ME SMILE. 

WHERE THE RED FERN FLOWS (2010)

PAPER TAPE ON WALL

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK

http://www.aakashnihalani.com/

http://www.eyescreamsunday.com/

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light bulbs glued together

2011

detailed images

Something new

Detailed images

experimentation. 

ROBBIE ROWLANDS

The Offering - Side Room Cut2009
Decommissioned 105 year old Church & Hall
Dandenong, Victoria, Australia



http://www.robbierowlands.com.au/index.php

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dimensions variable 

a bunch of pegs stuck with glue

Experimenting

new studio space

Experimentation

So I am 4 weeks into a new module at university which equals a new project to take on. Also a new studio space to go along with the new project 

Throughout my practice there has been a sense of change, the desire and the notion to change the idea or  a meaning of something. An object, a medium, the environment of a space. Reinventing or changing the purpose that an object has, allowing the item to then become totally removed from its original function that would have been productive, with the usage of fine art. Looking at how the material or the medium is manipulated changing the way that we view the object, medium or space.

I will still be using drawing in my work but as a way informing my process if making. Working out why and how things fit together, as well as drawing from primary sources to gain knowledge and inspiration, whether that is drawing everyday objects, architecture, natural and manmade patterns etc. I am also interested in the process of making, repeating a process over and over again, almost bringing the idea forward from the last module about making the work per-formative.

the black and white experiement

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Art and Understanding

So i've been ready just a few chapters of this book, called Art and understanding. Ive almost hit a creative wall with my work, but hopefully I will soon snap out of it with the use of a couple of books. So I haven't read alot of it just a little so far and it been an insight to the visual world, how as a human being we view things. We don't just use our sight to have a connection with the objects that we are view and see on a daily basis, we uses all our sense to associate objects with the lables that we give them. 

'Our Visual experience of an object is one line only, out other senses draw other lines to it, and at the heart of the intersecttion grows up our idea, what the object is to us.'

We have a slight understanding of what things are or what they are about but this does not all come down to the sense of sight, we use our memory of our other senses to associate an object with what it really actually is.

'...a violet may be conceived primarily as a smell which looks like that, rather than a flower which smells like this.'

TART of the week

Coco TART

So its my third Tart in a row (well done me), I finally have my flow. 

So yes this week i have an artist that i have been looking at, and his name is Zilvinas Kempinas. Originally a painter he makes this beautiful aesthetically but yet delicate sculptures. Made out of VHS tape, using the tape in all different ways to create sculptures, each creating a different form and shape. The  structures are so pleasing to the eye that you would not necessarily associate it with the material of VHS. Because its taken so far away from it context, it almost becomes unrecognizable as having a function. As a viewer you are almost drawn into the work to find out what it is made out of, because it is soo aesthetically pleasing, makes you wonder how the material can be manipulated in a way, to create such exquisite but yet structural dominating sculptures in a space.

Zilvinas Kempinas, Columns, 2006, Magnetic tape,  Installation view,  Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York.

Zilvinas Kempinas,

Tube, site specific installation, 

53rd Venice Biennial.

Zilvinas Kempinas.

 Parallels. Flying tape.

TART

lemon tart

hmmm soo good 

So its that time again TART day (Tuesday art day). So for the past week I have been trying to evaluate what my practice is and how I could apply this is my next module, in doing so through my research I came across the artist  by the name of Sonja Vordermaier. I really have much to say about her work but wow, I 

would love ca chance to view these works in real life. JUST WOW. The way she changes the atmosphere of a room is a amazing. Her 

sculptures/ instatltions almost take on another life form, the shapes that she creates metamorphic. They are just brilliant. 

Formed absence of light
Basotect UF, Farbe, Holz 
ca 5 x 4 x 3 m
Galerie Lena Brüning, Berlin, 2008

Accumulator 
CDs, Bauschaum, Farbe.
ca 240 x 250 x 200 cm und ca. 150 x 150 x 120 cm
Collection

Katrin Bechtler, Zürich, 2004

Go to 

http://www.sonjavordermaier.com/

to find out more

A new camera

So I didn't do a folio Friday or a review on Sunday as I haven't done any work that is substantial to post, but I have been trying out and testing a film camera. As u may have read from my profile, I have 5 camera's and I wanted to just play around and experiment with a new camera. So from the loan shop  took out the Pentax K1000 which take 35mm film. Now I don't claim to be an expert I will leave that to the real photographers but i just like the fact that a camera can be just an intimate relationship between you and the image that u want to shot which I like, the instantness of a photography. The things that come hand in hand with a photography, the excitement when you develop a film to see what comes out at the other end, th memories that are a attached with photograph, looking back on times that were forgotten but only to be remember through the use if a lens. 

BUT anyway yeah I think you can buy these from ebay from about £45  but until I finish uni I would be buying one as I can just loan it from the shop, oh and you don't need to be an expert to work them they are rather easy once you get used to it so look out for my photos to see how they have turned out this week.

TART (tuesday Art Days)

playing around with photo-shop

Tara Donovan 

Transplanted, 2001 

Ripped & Stacked Tarpaper

33' 8 1/4"(H) x 24' 6 1/2"(W) x 2' 8"(D)

Tara Donovan

Mylar
2008, Mylar and hot glue

So my new regime has come it to play its time for the first TART (Tuesday art days) hopefully you will get used to the name I like it hope you do too, any feedback on what you think of the new regime would be very grateful.

 But any ways back to the purpose of this TART day I will be talking about the artist, that goes by the name of Tara Donovan. Introduced to me since my foundation course her work are very aesthetically pleasing to look at, the way that she uses material in order to create an entirely different subject matter and objects. The New York based artist makes these sculptures out of the mass produce, the everyday object that we know, then changing their quality of the object to give it higher value in the world of art.

I actually just think that her work is amazing, the way she manipulates an object to make something that is desirable, is amazing an clever.

So yeah that's my artist for this week, my first TART (tuesday art days) and not my last I hope :).  

For more on this artist go to:

 http://www.acegallery.net/artistmenu.php?pageNum_ACE=0&totalRows_ACE=58&Artist=8 

New structure to my blog

so I've been thinking of ways of  to create a new structure to my BLOG, so I continuously am THINKING and REFLECTING on the what that I'm making, and recording artist that I like and see as well as monthly reviews on exhibitions that I have seen or articles that I have reed. 


WEEKLY UPDATES


FOLIO FRIDAYS so every Friday I will be publishing some of my work an ideas of the week and show things that I have been actively making.


TART DAY also known as Tuesday art days this is where I will be looking artist that I have found an liked, this includes works that I have seen or read about.


REFLECTION on Sundays I will be reflecting on how my week has gone and what discovery I have made during the week


Hopefully I will stick to the plan wish me luck x 

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STACY BRAFIELD

So I came across this artist her work is really interesting, every aesthetically pleasing to look at and i like the way that she has manipulated the material that she uses.
Check out her blog to see more of her work.

http://stacybrafield.blogspot.com/

Ben Long

http://www.benlong.co.uk/

  Frieze Art fair 2010

Vitamind D: New perspectives in drawing

'A line always suggests a continuation ad infintitum and thus connects us with infinity and eternity.'

Emma Dexter

'UNTILED'

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light bending

Push and Pull Part 2

 part 1 bellow

Wolfgang Tillmans