Lucy and I discussed my charcoal drawings and talked about perhaps mixing up the drawing by use of animation – look at William Kentridge – we discussed rather than sticking on pictures of houses, use the videos of houses and woods to project into or through the drawings. Dirt is still part of the work […]
I find the play of scale with the use of the dolls house really useful They are enabling me to create an aesthetic that plays with memory, space, disturbance I edited a film together with I Movie of the footage that I projected onto the house – the films I used were the ones of […]
Started to cast a dolls house with plaster – it is made from wood and reacted really badly with the plaster and it blew the wood and distorted it – it was really heavy and hard to get out – It didn’t really work and have the aesthetic I was looking for Went to the […]
travel to The Exchange Gallery to help set up for show two artists graduates from Falmouth were brought in to help set up – we didn’t quite realise that we would be surplus to needs!! They didn’t want us to help set up – we helped set up the display cabinet with some broken objects and […]
started making house in workshop with the idea of making a translucent house to fill with dirt/mud – spent all afternoon making slabs of clay, shaping, carving with the intention of pouring resin into slaps to construct house worked all afternoon and then with one trip dropped the whole lot on the floor into a […]
Thoughts after research tutorial meeting Look at my own work – pick one piece, then pick three strands and three artists for each strand. pipes, waste, dirt, woods Object – pipes – material – transitional Domestic Waste – dirt – feminism Woods – symbolism – psychoanalysis Domestic Waste Mary Douglas – Purity & Danger – rituals […]
this is the work that I have presented for assessment Shul, confession number one and number two are all objects that have film as part of the piece. Shul – is projected from the back – click on title to take you to page with film confession number one is projected from the back and […]
The group of us who applied for the Transitions exhibition at Newlyn Gallery are still working as a group to try to obtain some space to work together. We met today as I had approached Pop Up Penzance – an organisation who rent out empty premises in Penzance, for the possibility of our Transition Group renting […]
I am still working with the aesthetic of ‘houses’ and ‘homes’ and have looked at various types of UK houses. With regards to my research proposal I have also been exploring strands of thought and ways that the research will assist my studio practice
I need to hone in & focus Time & place are eternal in fairytales – solutions and happy endings are only reached through suffering woods – symbolism house – poetics fairytale – psychology I’m struggling with how to define or keep some boundary around my thinking perhaps simplify it to thinking about dual roles, 2 […]