Fine Art

2D and 3D First off I would like to apologise in advance for not having decent photos of this work. I started off with my three dimensional work, Adam did a "speed dating" activity with us where we had to tell a person about ourselves and create our project around that.  The work had to revolve around the readymade. I found this way more difficult than I thought I would. I like creating things from scratch. I based my work around the fact I'm fragile, in the most literal sense you could imagine. I have bones as delicate as a baby bird but also I struggle with mental illness'. Depression and Anxiety- not fun! I melted down white bin liners using a heat gun and made them fragile looking and would have four in a row, loosely connected through a skimpy piece of wool. To me this represented trying to hold myself together and get through every day.

Mini Degree Show  After the first few weeks I feel like I have had a lot of experimentation when it comes to producing some art work. I had only used clay once before and I was dying to try it out again. I love working with clay, constructing and manipulating a material to make something brand new brings a lot of satisfaction to me. I was heavily inspired by the theatre masks, I appreciated the dramatic expressions they give off. I wanted to make masks that were very clear in what emotion they were expressing and I believe I was very successful in doing so.  When it came to painting I went with colours that corresponds with the emotions and I began to write with in the eyes adjectives related to the expression however it was soon pointed out that I didn't need to justify something that was already being betrayed.  I started researching via the internet, other words that could be used instead of the obvious ones. I found loads and this gave my creation...

The fourth Dimesion  For the fourth dimension introduction, presented to us was a virtual lecture with Rory speaking. It entailed how a variety of artists approached 4D. There were many pieces of work but the stuff that appealed to me where the ones of quite a natural nature.  I really enjoyed "Anya Gallaccios work. In the Tate, she displayed fresh flowers, this piece was called "Preserve Beauty". Obviously over time the flowers would deteriate and decompose. I feel like this had a really strong message. Like Anya I wanted to show time passing, however I wanted to do it through painting. I started off a painting with an impressionistic feel to do it because I wanted to represent the world being painted with in a fleeting moment which is also inspired by Leonid Afremov. I went to paint a second piece but it turned into quite a still life kind of painting however I thought this offered a nice contrast between my first painting and the last painting I create...

Woun - Gean Ho  29th of November  Woun-Gean Ho is an artist who's family originates from Singapore but Woun-Gean Ho herself was born in England. Art to her is the relationship between truth and lies."Distorting" celebrates our subjective view of the world. She romanticises this idea of our senses being the windows and doors to our brain; our bodies. I found it very intriguing how she mentioned the fact when we see an eye our brain automatically searches for another then the rest of the facial features that follow. A set of pieces that I really admired by Woun-Gean Ho was the series of faces that were filled with her iconic memories because to her to lose these would be a great tragedy. I found this artist to be quite inspiring to me. Printmaking to me has never been my strong suit and in result of this I didn't enjoy it. I have learnt over the years its not just what something looks like but what it means, I ...

Jo McGonigal  6th of December McGonigal has been exhibiting work from 2008 and currently is an applicant of a PhD in Fine Art from the University of Leeds. Straight off the bat I have to say I was not a fan of Jo Mcgonigals work. I respect her practise and her reasons why but personally I seen it as something quite pointless. Repainting something to look the same is time and work gone unnoticed to me. However there was one piece I quite liked the idea of; "Edge of a Silk Scarf". I was inspired by how it made the audience interact in quite an interesting way. The installation was placed in a corner, not in centre, not sitting perfectly on a plinth but rather in a position where it made the audience push awkwardly against the wall to get the right vantage point. To me this opens up my eyes a lot to how positions of installations and pieces can really effect the power it has over the audience. 

Ryan Gander  15th of November  Ryan Gander was born in Chester, 1976. Gander carries out his practise as a conceptualist artist who works with a wide variety of materials. What I admired about Ryan was his phobia of predictability, this childish notion of wanting to do art so everyday he could wake up and do something different.  I found "The Wind" piece/ "installation" was very clever. It was a piece of work that took a lot of effort and back planning which everyone could feel but it was something no one could see.  Ryan Gander made this statement with in his lecture, "Small things are more powerful in large spaces" This impacted my thought process of my work and installation as for me, personally I always thought for my work to make an impact it had to be large and obvious. However coming to the University I soon discovered this was not the case.  Over all the lecture itself was definite...