we are all alone – we are all related at the same time – sometimes we meet, sometimes we don’t told through disco – Donna Summer, Diana Ross death of disco 1979 – by rock and anti disco movement Stuck on you – Davinia Hewlett not knowingness making love rub throb realness – Paris is […]
Oscar Kokoshcka March 1885 – February 1980 was an Austrian artist, poet and playwright. In 1928 he commissioned a doll maker to recreate his muse/love into a lifesize doll. He insisted on details and went to great lengths to the specifications of her curves and feel and the texture of her skin. The doll […]
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 […]
Reading a single work of ART
Not until you are confronted face to face with some pieces of work do you fully appreciate them. Some of the paintings were most beautiful. I enjoyed the sculptures too. I loved the fact that they were quite childlike visually and in the way they appeared to be made. I came away wanting to know […]
Casting Finally managed to cast in wax today using alginite – I decided to use wax rather than plaster as I think it will work better with the hair and the properties feel more realistic and less lardy/clinical. I practiced sewing into the wax but wanted a surface mark to show under the skin too […]
found that the day was way out of my comfort zone put myself with people who I hadn’t worked with before and because they interested me and I thought they would be really interesting to work with. we brainstormed colloboratively, recorded sounds, horrible sounds, eating, cutting, stamping, cutlery, swearing, popping balloons, ripping, shaking we all […]