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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Tears of Things – an exhibition by Café Morte This was the first of a growing collection of broken objects which were gathered to exhibit at Newlyn Art Gallery. As part of The Exchange Christmas Makers Market, Café Morte were invited to create an exhibition alongside the makers. The exhibition took place of the […]
The pipes and drains and dirt are still of real curiosity to me – have bought pipes and played with making sculptures with them. Thinking about casting with them or making moulds of them or with them and casting objects, words or dirt in them. Experimented a bit below. I left the mud to dry […]
starting to think about installing and projecting to play with perspective and slightly odd moments – looking in, looking out & scale Pipes – Use words – waste to cast or mark onto wast that comes out sorry – dirt – sorrow – shame – dirt – laundry – shit – fuck Cafe Morte – – […]
Thinking about what format my research portfolio will take and what it is that I will research. I have already started to go down many routes in my reading and artists research and need to narrow in or fine tune my thinking. Have been thinking about what my work is about and thinking about how […]