Today I've been mapping out the plans for my plinths. I have decided to make triangular ones, as this will work well with my angular sculptures.
 Hopefully it will give my work an added sense of individuality, as the majority of works are displayed on rectangular plinths.

Degree show!!

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Tateshot: Matt Collishaw

"Repulsion to contrast sexual allure" is an quote that I have picked out from this short interview. To an extent it makes me consider the way my own art work is viewed. The imagery that I create is very visceral and can be seen as innards, or a womans womb, however at the same time the imagery is very seductive and romantic.

I really like how Collishaw works; firstly by gathering a range of imagery and research to creat a mood board of some sorts. Then rather than sticking to the one meduim and idea, he varies it.

Printing for the degree show

Rough sketches showing current ideas for plinths. So far I have decided to have the three at different heights, this will force the viewer to look at the sculptures from various angles, also as my exhibition space is really bright, the varied heights of the plinths will mean that each sculpture will capture and react to the natural light differently.

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Willem de Kooning - "Woman in a Garden"

Although y currrent practice does not focus on painting, when I came across "Woman in a Garden" by Willem de Kooning I felt there was a strong relationship between his work and my own. The resin sculptures that I have been creating and the imagery to follow, have a strong painterly feel. The soft seductive strokes and curves of colour are particularly similar to those found in the above painting.

Plinths

As I will be exhibting sculptures as well as prints I need to consider...
*what size of plinth
*shape
* heights (as there will be more than one, do I want them all on the same level)

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Catalogue Statement

"Deep Sensual colours and soft painterly folds, plunge the viewer into a silken depth of femininity and desire"

 

I decided I wanted my catalogue statement to be quite short and to the point. Rather than writing to describe by work and thought it would be much more effective to have a short evocative peice. My work is very seductive and provocative so hopefully my statement will convey that.

Sculpture

Third Degree Poster

3rd Degree Poster
Promoting our exhibition!
Designed by: Aislinn Ritchie

2nd Year Feed Back

The "Mini Exhibtion" in Greenstone was put up so that we could see what we'd need to develope and change in prep for the main degree show. So the 2nd years went round giving feed back. From this I have come to realise that scale is going to be an important aspect of my work. To gain the full impact of intense colours and depths I really want print my Images much larger.
Overall I am pleased, It was really interesting to see what peoples interpretations of the images, the photograhs are so ambiguous and removed from the raw material.
I am also starting to reconsider my decision to leave the resin panels out of the exhibition. They have a such a raw seductive beauty that it would be a shame to completely dismiss them. I will revisit them and re-address there unfinished quality.

 

Following the previous set of Images I've found  I need to try and balance the red and amber tones as this set has become flat and lacking depth, the red tones have become over exagerated. As a result the liquid merging of colours that was particularly suggestive in the earlier images is also missing. Another aspect which should be addressed is the lack of texture, it was the fine detail of fabrics that previously added to the ambiguity of the imagery. 

Considering Colour

 I decided to experiment with colour, removing some of the red tones. Overall I think the colouring in these images looks a little dirty, I prefer how the previous photographs I've been working with are much more suggestive of innards, blood and wombs etc.

Catalogue

As part of the degree show there will be a catalogue, within this each artist will have a page in which they can have a short statement desciribing their practice and image of thier artwork. As my previous projections have been so successful I have decided to use an image of them to document my practice. I will be entering both photography and sculptural work into the dgree show therefore  by having documentation of the  projections I feel I can show the pure scale and intensity of the imagery and the diversity of my work.

Printing on Fabric

Yesterday I spent the day in the print room. After seeing how successful the printed images worked  in the Mini Exhibition I decided to experiment with printing on a larger scale. By Printing on fabric I am also able to return to the original raw material that I worked with in my scultpures.

I trailed printing on two different images on silk and cotton. I found the silk to be much more affective in capturing and reflecting the vivid colours of the resin images.

Sculpture work

Recently I have been focusing on the Images that I have taken from the resin pannels that I've previously made. However on reflection I feel that It would be a shame to completey loose the original resin works from the degree show. The combintion of the rigid resin, delicate folds of fabric and the rich sensual colours is really quite magical when seen first hand. I have therefore decided to join panels of resin so that they become free standing sculptures. Here are some images of experimentation of possible compositions.

The sculptures will run alongside the printed images of the work in the exhibition.

Open publication - Free publishing - More 3-d

Cathy DeMonchaux

Whilst researching the work of Cathy DeMonchaux I came across an article on her work from an issue of frieze, I felt the following quote to be particularly relevant in describing her work and although my work is by no means as bold or suggestive I have found there are similar seductive elements to our work.

"Like good sex, the best of the work in the show is playful, occassionally comical, and flirts with danger. You don't notice when it hurts and when you do, it just makes it better" (louisa Buck, Frieze, Issue 14, jan 1994)