Hand-cut, yes hand-cut!!!!!
Showing posts with label installations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label installations. Show all posts
Friday, July 3, 2009
Friday, May 22, 2009
Papercut installation at the New Art Gallery Walsall. August 08
This was my work exhibited at the New Art Gallery Walsall in August 2008, the culmination of the Artist Teacher Scheme.
Monday, March 23, 2009
Tara Donovan
An amazing artist transforming the everyday into extraordinary installations and environments. This image shows a piece constructed from styrofoam cups.
Friday, February 27, 2009
TSANG Kin-Wah
Image of the artist installing his pattern work and one of the finished item for Shu Uemura, Costa Mesa, California, 2006.
Friday, February 13, 2009
Planning for my PHD proposal
Thought I'd do some writing on my blog today, to help me focus a wee bit I suppose.
I really need to pull my finger out now in terms of doing an initial proposal towards what will be my actual proposal.....and already I'm stumped!
I know that I want to do a practice based PHD..but don't quite know how that will manifest itself...perhaps along these lines - For the past 15 or so years I have made pattern based work. I was painting, but since re-engaging with contemporary art and my own work through the Artist Teacher Scheme at BCU and New Art Gallery, I have begun to make installations using cut paper.
Anyway, for a long time I have struggled to locate my work within a fine art context. Obviously I am interested and inspired by many artists but am also very influenced by printed textile design - but have no desire to print fabrics. I also love interior design and decoration as well as contemporary illustration and grafitti.
To put it in a nutshell, my influences are eclectic!!
Although I make work that I want to be aesthetically pleasing, I am not heavily into aesthetical theories...yet.
I am thinking about researching the possible locations for my work, putting it into a range of contexts - Fine art, interior decoration and craft for example. The reason I mention craft also is that my work has to fit around a full-time job and my family and is in a way very repetitive (although I feel it is therapeutic)...does this make it a craft practice? Who knows? Is craft still seen as a lower 'art form' than fine art? Is there anything wrong with creating pieces that are purely decorative or ornamental and could be placed in a domestic setting?
I have so many questions, which if is a good thing I guess....now I just have to try and make sense of it all.......
Hmmmmmm, think this ramble has helped a bit, thanks for listening!
I really need to pull my finger out now in terms of doing an initial proposal towards what will be my actual proposal.....and already I'm stumped!
I know that I want to do a practice based PHD..but don't quite know how that will manifest itself...perhaps along these lines - For the past 15 or so years I have made pattern based work. I was painting, but since re-engaging with contemporary art and my own work through the Artist Teacher Scheme at BCU and New Art Gallery, I have begun to make installations using cut paper.
Anyway, for a long time I have struggled to locate my work within a fine art context. Obviously I am interested and inspired by many artists but am also very influenced by printed textile design - but have no desire to print fabrics. I also love interior design and decoration as well as contemporary illustration and grafitti.
To put it in a nutshell, my influences are eclectic!!
Although I make work that I want to be aesthetically pleasing, I am not heavily into aesthetical theories...yet.
I am thinking about researching the possible locations for my work, putting it into a range of contexts - Fine art, interior decoration and craft for example. The reason I mention craft also is that my work has to fit around a full-time job and my family and is in a way very repetitive (although I feel it is therapeutic)...does this make it a craft practice? Who knows? Is craft still seen as a lower 'art form' than fine art? Is there anything wrong with creating pieces that are purely decorative or ornamental and could be placed in a domestic setting?
I have so many questions, which if is a good thing I guess....now I just have to try and make sense of it all.......
Hmmmmmm, think this ramble has helped a bit, thanks for listening!
Sunday, December 28, 2008
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