Artists Room – Gerard Richter

Vist to Plymouth Museum  – exhibits from other rooms The exhibit was quite sparse and the wall of portraits of men didn’t really interest me.  The portraits intrigued me – they were so flat and photographic yet have an eerie quality to them.  The huge grey paintings were quite beautiful – in a sea of […]

Strategies in practice – Video – Gillian Wylde

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 […]

The Art of Not Making – following the 3d workshop day

I looked at The Art of Not Making: Michael Petry from the reading list and found the following work of real interest: Some interesting finds for me from the book: interesting analogy of a film director named as ‘making’ the film although a host of others help it does not discount the work of the […]

Louise bourgeious

I saw an exhibtion of Bourgeious’s work at the Tate this year and really loved these drawings and prints. In the last year I have become fascinated by the seaweed that gets washed up onto my local beaches and spend much time scouring for the deformed pieces that I salvage and bring home to draw. […]

Strategies in work – 3d workshop – 1st day

Having watched a video on Richard Serra and exploring his verb list we were encouraged to work collaborately with the following materials: wood, glue and tape As a group we began working individually and came together as a group.  This enabled wider experimentation and sparked different ideas which saw the structure grow.  We began to […]