Art and more Art……………
SO I made my own stop motion animation which turned out to be…… the exact opposite to how I first envisioned it -_-”
But hey GarageBand is officially my favorite thing at the moment. Now I just need a mac, oh art why to you put a price on quality -__-
So to kick-start our second semester we are yet again paired up in groups of two creating work; our first topic is site specific. Now of course there are many ways we could interpret this but we had to stick to the very basic understanding of the term ‘Site SPECIFIC’. This time I’ve been partnered up with Fred Conybeare-cross (thank you facebook) an amazing artist who has a traditional mind set so we gel well. Fred took pictures of the environment surrounding our campus building and found this great building with an overhang supported by nothing, so it was like a scene when you hear a heavenly choir humming in the background as you stare at the highlighted answer to your prayer O_O” We then began to think of ideas of how we could create work under this space, started sketching and came up with the same idea!!!!! and this was the outcome. I didn’t collect Fred’s shots but here’s my amateur attempt once again.
I love walking. The the Lye Valley, is the perfect place to spend some quiet time; it’s nice to take a break from the world and just get lost in nature. The valley is perfect because the moment you enter, the sound of a busy world disappears and your surrounded… nature, which can be as loud at times. Then reality hits when the sound of a jet engine annoyingly whizzes past -_- The valley is incredibly muddy so I thought, why not buy some wellingtons? Which of course I did (Primark £7 I do love my bargains) but me being my cheap self had to settle for practicality -_- but the artist in me was like HELL NO these are BORING PAINT THEM! so I did 😀 Painted a wall in the process and it was interesting how the two seemed to merge. Here’s an Image of the Boots. The following two posts will be pictures of the the wall and the boots alongside the wall. AH 90’s you always have a way of making me happy 😀
As you all know I’m a HUGE FAN of Marcel Duchamp, so for my video workshop I decided to re create my own version of the famous ‘Anemic Cinema’ Of course Duchamp’s piece is not even worth being mentioned with my video, but I decided to have fun, only had an afternoon to complete this so yeah 😀 This is the drawing I scanned, edited…. and VERY BASICALLY animated 😛
So I went into the studios today to hand in a staple gun, had a convo with Ryan who then pointed me to the direction of an artist call to decorate a coffin with the theme of angels. Which makes sense, as one of the reasons I’m painting circles is the fact that I read the passage in Ezekiel (10), which includes a detailed description of winged creatures accompanied by spinning wheels with many eyes. Yeah I’m that artist now, casually painting coffins…. 😀
Peaceful.
So to kick start our 2 Semester Sam and Tom decided to make a sculptural installation made up of easels, frames and paint. I must say I did like the outcome and the view from widows contributed to the piece in a weird and wonderful way. I love the linear patterns created by the easels in contrast with the zigzag formations created by the frames. These two will do great things together, I just can’t wait to see what they get up to next 😛 Sam’s on WordPress: samcleasby.wordpress.com and Tom has a Facebook page: www.facebook.com/tpjamesbrown check it out! 😀
So I’M BACK AT BROOKES!!!! So happy to be near art again O_O” Now we all know as an artist it’s great to get your name out there, so Magdalen Road Studios kick started a new project called Filament 14, a residency whereby new artists get a taste of the real “art world” creating works of art and exhibiting it in the same space. So Jean Wykes was the first Brookes student to start the residency and to support Jean I thought I’d show a small snippet of the work she had up in the studio. The rest of her exhibition included a performance and a video piece on the history of Cowley Road, a well-known road here in Oxford, great restaurants, bars and cafes with influences from everywhere around the world, it’s like the centre of student life here! So Jean had an installation of triangles set in a uniform pattern that gradually broke down into individual pieces, representing the diverse cultural identities found in Cowley 😀 I’ll be part of a collective making work in the same space 😀 Can’t Wait!
Aww Foundation was a great experience, I didn’t realise how good I had it until the end (funny that ey). So we were all different in our art styles and the one thing that unified our artwork was just that, OUR ART WORK. It was unique in it’s own right but it was all one thing ART! Recently, I have been trying to understand why that was, and it’s because we had a tutor who believed this with all his heart. If there’s one thing we knew in the foundation year is that Ian truly cared about each individual, problem is (like kids) we all wanted he’s attention and he was only one guy :P, but the genius of Ian is that he obviously knew this and surrounded himself with artists that got the ‘Art is Art’ message and allowed them to influence us.
I will be talking more about the others in other blog posts, but this one is just for Ian. So looking back at my photos I found a picture that flooded back all these memories; now Ian can get easily distracted whenever you spoke to him so all you had to do was say IAN! and he would give you this look that assured you that you had his attention, but we all giggled because it was the same look each TIME! My one regret is that I never got to see the rest of Ian’s artwork, he told me that he had a photo realist side, but I never asked to see that work, however he has a great and unique style now involving intricately painted sculptors, you can check them out on http://ianbottle.com
So I couldn’t sleep -_- I looked at Lteisha’s design and wondered what else I could do with it. Then I remembered, back in the day I would scribble over images with biro, and it was always hair; I don’t know why. So I did the same with the design and even I’m happy with the result 😀
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