Conrad Shawcross – 2nd December 2015
Harmonies of art and science – very mathmatical which perhaps is why I struggled listening to him. Some of the work I loved, the mechanical movement, the rhytmic sound, the scale and the cleverness. I couldn’t help feel a little bored. I’m sure he is immensely clever, articulate and well funded. The work and his talk felt like it had an exlusivity to it. Perhaps the fact that he seemed so lacking in emotion or humour his talk failed to inspire or hold my interest.
Krijn de Koning – 25th November 2015
I didn’t think that this artist would interest me. I don’t feel particularly interested in architecture and having seen only a couple of images I wasn’t feeling too enthused! So pleased to have gone. He was really interesting to listen to and I just thought that the colour in his works transformed the spaces into emotional places – like stepping into paintings. His snapshots were interesting, in particular his realisation that if you frame or fence something it becomes a source of interest for the passer by or viewer. I was very interested in the lines within his pieces that travelled through rooms. The 2d lines became 3d and back again.
“organise attention – attention creates value – organising reality – by creating a wall around it”
Gavin Turk – 18th November 2015
I have seen Turk’s work before and been quite bored with it. I don’t know lots of his works but those that I did know felt quite arrogant and I didn’t expect to enjoy the talk. I found that his awareness of arrogance helped and some of the pieces I found really interesting and thought provoking (especially his rubbish bags and his degree show sign). After some time, the works felt quite repetitive and the essence of perhaps why they were recreated just got lost for me.
Hew Locke – 02 November 2015
I found Hew fascinating – I felt like I was sat in his front room listening to him! I had never seen any of his work before and was unsure of what to expect. I felt quite inspired by the huge cardboard constructions, which to me reminded me of gingerbread houses. I do have an idea for a large installation and this gave me some great simple ideas.
Elly Thomas – 21st October 2015
Transforming matter (parallels with how work evolves with kids)
- improvised sculptures – the children were making
- Influences – Eduardo Paolozzi – repetition of forms to play with, using casting to replicate
- Phillip Guston – look at writings as well as paintings.
- looking at play to influence her work with focus on the process, stacking, piling and repeating as a child would play.
- seperate elements that come together (Guston would paint seperate elements then bring them all together.
- Getting away from the idea of one outcome – experiment to find surprises, subverting any plans
The way she works was very interesting, it gave me ideas of how to recreate some drawings and thoughts that I have had. I have bookfuls of my son’s calculations and sums and would love to make them. I really like her drawings.
Sam Thorne – 30th September 2015
Interesting talk about Art schools from their origins to present day.