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 […]
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 […]
Visit to Penlee Museum in Penzance Cafe Morte were invited to look through the archives at the museum. As part of The Tears of Things we were documenting objects of interest. There were many things that caught all of our interest and some that appealed individually. We were invited to write about objects that were […]
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 – – […]