Sculpture and Combined Media

At the beginning this of elective, I was exploring the verb to swaddle (to bind with long, narrow strips of cloth to prevent free movement), but throughout the week my explorations quickly moved to how to en-wrap or bind an object so to protect. And so I began looking at different processes to protect a delicate or fragile object through binding, en-wrapping and encasing. I want to mix rough, harsh materials (like wire and wood) with softer, delicate ones (such as lace or cling film). I knit materials, such as bubble wrap and rope into blankets to swaddle objects aswel as building cases, frames and cages to protect fragile items.

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Sculpture Contextual

Tracey Emin

Tracey Emin is an English artist. She is part of a group known as Britartists or YBAS. Her work takes on a variety of different forms of expression, including needlework, sculpture, drawing, video, installation, photography and painting. 

Alice Maher 

Alice Maher is an artist from county Tipperary, Ireland. She often pushes the boundaries of what is possible with such transient materials. Her work is itself in a state of continuous metamorphosis as her themes and interests have manifested themselves in various forms in the past 20 years.

Jeff Koons

Jeff Koons is an artist form York, Pennsylvannia. He is best known for his reprodutions of banal objects, such as Balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror-like finish surfaces. 

Meret Oppenheim

Meret Oppenheim was a memeber of the Surrealist Movement. Her juxtaposition of unusual objects and materials explores the subconscious world of dreams, where she drew her inspiration. She forces the disagreeable mixture of sensations on the senses with her work.

Bruce Nauman

Bruce Nauman is one of Americas most innovative and proactive contemporary artists. He realised that "if I was an artist and I was in studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art. At this point art became more of an activity and less of a product."

Robert Gober

Robert Gober's work is often related to domestic and familiar objects such as cribs, sinks, doors, legs, etc. He plays with the tension between connotations  both emotional and physical, we attach to them and the neutered form. Thus he makes the common uncommon. 

Louise Bourgeois

Louise Bourgeois was a French-american artist and sculptor, whose perceptions of the body informed her art. Even though her works are abstract, they are quite suggestive of the human form and express themes of betrayal, anxiety and loneliness.

Printmaking

Linoprints

Prints done using beer mats 

Print done using wood glue and monoprint

Print done using cellotape

Print done using cellotape and monoprint

Print done using cello tape, dried leaves and monoprint

Drypoint prints, pop up in books

Printmaking - Some Contextual Research

George Grosz

George Grosz was a German artist know for his savage caricatures of Berlin life in the 1920s. He likened people at official receptions to insects "The ladies dresses are like iridescent wings of beetles, the men's dinner suits like dark duny beetles. And how insect-like is their omnivorous greed at the ample buffets!"

Robert Rausenberg

Robert Rausenberg's works very much anticipated the pop art movement. He is well known for his "Combines" of the 1950s, in which non-traditional materials and objects were employed in innovative combinations. He relied mostly on his own photography but he did incorporate imagery from the commerical print media. He did prints on a variety of material including silk, cotton and cheesecloth as well as three dimensional constructions of cloth, paper and bamboo in an Oriental manner. 

Mary Modeen

Mary Modeen  is interested in traditional folk life, local history and contemporary art in island cultures, both literal and metaphorical. She has been examining the interplay between memory and cultural identities and art, combining creative practise with critical writing. 

L.S. Lowry

Born in 1887 in Stretford, London. He had a very basic range of colours, mixed on his palette and painted on the white background. His images were of what he saw during work. 

PAINTING - Colour Study

Tonal Studies

done using a wooden stick.

done using a butter knife

 done using a palette knife

mixing complimentary colours 

tonal studies

tonal studies