Collecting Objects!

For my newest project, if you haven`t read all of my other posts on here, is all about flytipping and human waste. I`m collecting all of my materials from the same area near a bunch of industrial factories that run in front of the nutbrook trail. Which is a nature trail, but also a popular place for flytippers since a lot of people don`t go down there due to the factories.

This particular area has been abandoned for years due to an old factory that was built there, and then knocked down. It still has the old rusted train tracks that are out of order and are completely safe to walk along for a good hour or so.
The area was overtaken by nature; wild flowers, tress, bushes, random plants growing inbetween lumps of concrete and metal.
But just lately the place was overtaken by flytippers and just left that way, there`s no point in the council paying to clear up an area that no one can see. So, they`re just leaving it all there and not really having a second thought about it. I kind of wish someone would clean up the area since the area would be absolutely amazing if they just cleared it so plants could begin to grow again.




But anyways, you`ve probably read about that before in previous posts that i`ve uploaded.

I began to collect materials over the christmas period, but over time i`ve ran out and today was actually my third time going back to get even more materials from that area.

I basically haven't been uploading any of my artwork so far since i`ve just been pumping out experimental work and i genuinely can`t keep up with everything i`m doing at the moment, and i`m seriously struggling to try and keep up with everything else i have on the side. So the blogs, redbubble, facebook page and even an Essay that I need to finish... Like, I haven`t even started a seriously important Essay which SERIOUSLY needs my attention right now!

In-between my time in the studios, I also have a theory class that I attend once a week, and an artist talk. Then inbetween that, we have to document every little thing that we do in our journals, every Wednesday we have a new deadline for our theory work since we`re set a new task once a week, a presentation for our theory work and an Essay for our theory work. THEN, I have to go and collect the materials that I`m using for my project, which is about 45 minutes there and 45 minutes back and then you have to add the collection time on top of that.

SO, as you can tell, I`m actually pretty busy the majority of the time and I do find it hard to keep up with everything.

You`ll be able to find everything that I`m beginning to upload on Deviantart, There`s now a folder on there called University, Year 1, Semester 2. Pretty straight forward really, you should begin to find the majority of my experimental pieces on there.

I`m getting round to uploading everything I have so far, it`ll take me some time still.
This is basically just a post saying that, I`ve collected materials, i`m getting there with the studio work but it is taking me some time to getting round to uploading everything that I`ve done.

I will admit aswell, that my project is not hygienic at all and it is very dirty, so a lot of my pictures and my materials have a lot of dirt and mud on them... Which needs to be washed off quite badly.


I`ll be uploading images of all of my found objects in one image but in sets of squares, i`ve racked up over 200+ photos so i don`t want to upload them all one by one and take he absolute mick with it.



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London Trip!

So then guys, I`ve been in the studios quite a bit lately; from now on we`re just in there all of the time without fail, 9-5pm. Then afterwards I have theory work to be doing, so really i just spend a lot of time researching... That`s whenever my laptop decides to start working. Andddd yes, my laptop has broken and freezes almost everytime i click on something so I`m really struggling with trying to do my research an my blogging and my deviantart and my redbubble.
As you can see, the list goes on.


So, There is a loooot of stuff that I need to catch up on once again!
There will be updates on Redbubble soon, I just need to load up my new images onto my boyfriends laptop to then work on Redbubble.

Gerhard Richter.

Last week, on Friday we took a quick trip to London.
When I say quick, I mean that we left at 6am, and then got back into derby at 00:30am. So it was a very long day for all of us.

We began by following and itinerary that our lecturer had made for us, the small little Irish guy that likes to drink quite a bit.
I basically spent the whole day with Mel and Rachel. We began at the Tate Modern, I haven`t been since they added the large 10 floor extension so I didn`t want to miss the artist exhibitions rooms in there. We spent about 3 hours in there in total, and I managed to get into the two paid exhibitions. The Robert rauschenberg exhibition and The Radical Eye exhibition.
Whilst walking around, I did see a lot of sculptures and paintings from the last time that I went to the Gallery which was about a year or two ago.

Walking around, I think i was more interested in the video/performance pieces of art work that I saw. Mainly because they seemed to of made more sense, a lot of the work there is just paint on a canvas, or a badly illustrated story that isn`t coming through as effectively as the video pieces of work.
I do wish we had a lot longer to walk around there, some of the work was really moving and powerful and the work displayed by Gerhard Richter did make me cry actually... Sado.

The Rauschenberg exhibition did make me cry, and so did the Gerhard Richter... Then later on, the Anselm Kiefer exhibition over at a different gallery site.
It`s just that when you study an artist, and you`ve looked at there work online and in books and you`ve studied some of their most famous pieces of work; seeming them in person is just amazing, and the best experience you could possibly have. I`ve never actually cried at a art exhibition aswell, so I did feel quite stupid walking around this gallery fanning my eyes so no one else could see me cry. Same with Gerhard Richter, that wasn`t even a paid exhibition; but still seeing the sheer scale of the work and the textures up close moves you.
Look, I basically liked their work.

After the Tate Modern, we had a 30 minute walk to the White Cube Gallery, and our lecturer almost got us lost twice whilst we where heading over there. That was another extremely moving exhibition to witness in person. He`s another artist who i`ve studied for a very long time, and my eyes where watering the whole time i was walking around there. He had the whole run of the gallery, which seems small on the outside but it`s huge when you get in there.
There was a mixture of side rooms that where darkly light up and eerie to walk around, then about three rooms that where full of bright natural light that really showed you the proper colors of the pieces of work that where in there.
It was all very dramatic and set up in a way that really showcased every detail of his work.

It was another very moving exhibition, it`s one of those ones where you cant really put into words the size and the effect it actually has on you. I would of preferred it if it was quieter whilst we where walking around but there was about 51 of us who went in total. If you can get there and it`s quite, you`ll feel the full effect of the art work, and hopefully you`ll get a much better viewing experience in total.

There really isn`t a way to explain the artwork in the very back room, That`s where the large scale wall pieces where kept, and you could see all of the amazing colors that the melted metals had created and the layering that had been taken off to reveal the base layers... just ugghhh, it was good.
I couldn`t shut up telling my mum about the exhibition when I got back home, I think that was the show that made the whole day amazing, I had no idea he was even exhibiting in London prior to applying and paying for the trip there.


After the Tate Modernand the Anselm Kiefer Mel, Rachel and I began to venture off around london.
Luckily we didn`t get lost.
Rachel knew what she was doing with the tubes and stuff, so she was basically our navigator for the day.

We managed to also got to the Whitechapel Gallery, The Tate Britain and the National Portrait Gallery.
According to what we hared from everyone else, they managed to go to three galleries in total since they followed the lecturer around for the day I`m serously happy that we did agree to go off for the day by ourselves, I feel like I spent a lot more time admiring the artwork rather than rushing around to find another gallery.

Whitechapel Galley was strange, and we only went to see one exhibition there; and that was the Guerrilla Girls.
An anomynous group of artists, who are all female and all where guerrilla masks to keep their identities a secret. The group of woman make controversial art based off of surveys and statistics that they collect from galleries and museums worldwide.
They even had a large piece on the floor which name and shamed about 200 galleries and museums that rejected their survey and never sent a response back to them, after that there was about 100-130 (i think) that actually responded and answered the surverys.
I`d never even heard of the group before, but after seeing their work it`s shed a whole new light on the artworld, they`re sexist and do not want women to exhibit alongside men. Which is scary, it`s scary to think that there are 33 people on my course, only 5 of those are men and the rest are women. So out of 33, at a typical gallery, only those 5 men would exhibit together.
That idea is just scary.

I didn`t get any pictures at the national portrait gallery, Since you`re not supposed to take pictures in there anyways.
Then in the Tate Britain gallery, I took hardly any images as a lot of the work in there was sculptural, there where two paid exhibitions and I couldn`t take pictures in there.

But yeah, the Whitecube and the Tate Modern where the most moving exhbitions to go to, and i would love to go again.

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Back To The Studios.

(The images in the blog post are from over the Winter period, I`ll be uploading my studio work over the next few posts instead)!

Hello, once again I`ve let my poor time management get the best of me and I haven`t updated any of my blogs, deviantart, or redbubble since last year!

I`m finally getting back round to it all now, well I hope so; There`s a lot going on at University at the moment and it`s making it a bit difficult to get back around to everything I used to do in my spare time.
For example, all I managed to do over Christmas

was journal work and only a few small sample pieces of work that I pulled together for some inspiration.

In the last blog post that I uploaded, I did upload a few pictures of the wasteful items that I had begun to collect together, I managed to fill two large boxes with man made waste; and when I say man made, I don`t mean feaces, I mean things that have been fly tipped and thrown away in hope that no one will find what they`ve thrown

away. I`m rambling now.

SO, if I didn`t quite discuss my newest project fully yet.
I`ve decided to go down the route of recreating scenes/landscapes by using man made materials and organic materials that I`ve discovered. It`s quite an experimental project, but at the same time it`s going to be quite fun to get back into the habit of creating pastes and using them for creating textures and painting with crushed

seeds and plants.
The main reason I want a project that`s experimental and messy is purely because I went all summer without producing any large scale pieces of work, then when we got to University it was very prescribed and straight forward for us. Mainly because they needed us to attend all of the workshops, and go back to basics with drawings and small sculptures. So it was very, you have to experiment with this, and this and then we want you to attend this

workshop and afterwards you can do this.

So, this second semester is very strange compared to what we did during the last semester.
For starts, as soon as we got back we had our normal Monday meeting where they just go over what we`re doing for the week and they make sure we know what we`re going to do for the next week or so. We basically spent the first week just doing research to back

up our ideas and our plans for our project, and then on the Friday of that first week we had our class split in two and we basically had to talk about our project and present any work we had produced or any additional ideas that we had. Then the rest of the group had to ask questions and discuss your ideas with you, before Carl butts in and adds his thoughts and opinions and opens up an even bigger discussion with the class and you.

This ended up going on for 5 hours on the Friday, and another 6 hours on Monday since there where so many people to get around. Carl does like my idea and the plans that I have at the moment.
We`re actually three weeks into this semester you see, that`s just how behind I am on updating all of my blogs and social media accounts!!!

Altogether, he was okay with my initial concept of not knowing whatever the hell I was going to do..
Yeah, I just kind of babbled my way through my journal and my ideas since it was hard to explain where I got the idea from and what I had collected together; but I wasn`t quite sure as to what direction I wanted my work to go down so I was most probably just

confusing everyone in my group. A few people liked the fact that I`d been out and had collected source material to begin working with, and the fact that I`d already made sample pieces of work that I can then gain extra initial ideas from. But I think Carl wanted me to have a solid idea as to what I was going to be doing with these items and what direction I wanted to go in.

But seeing as we are three weeks into producing work within the
All of the pieces I`ve made vary in size and there are quite a few small pieces that I`ve just kind of produced in order to get some practice in. It`s an awkward topic I think, simply because I`m trying to stay in the guidelines of making work out of these man made materials.
studios, because now we`re just left to be independent, I have produced bigger pieces of work and have began to cover my walls in work that I`ve produced over the time I`ve spent inside of the

studios.

After looking at various artist though and the way that they work and produce their art work, I feel like I need to be more spontaneous with the way that I`m producing my pieces of work and I want them too feel like I`m using a variety of materials instead of just organic and wasteful items.


You`ll hopefully get what I mean within the next few updates that I post, I need to get back round to showing all of the work that I`ve produced and anymore ideas that I have.
Watch this space! I`m finally getting round to blogging again!


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Last Three Weeks; Resolved Pieces!

Since it`s been a week since I updated about my last three weeks at university, I thought I would try and explain my final resolved pieces of work.

Seeing as I didn`t know what to do with the prints, and that my frame of work was to work within a box or within a frame; I was pretty lost for the first two weeks of work, and during the third week, the last week, I had a huge panic and had to talk to the tutors about what I could possibly do.

I began to mess around with simply wrapping boxes with the prints that I made, and then the prints that where on thin plastic sheets where put inside so you can see the messages... I think I`ve already talked about this before.
But in the end that just didn`t work, and the sheets wouldn`t stay in place and it just didn`t work out correctly which was unbelievably frustrating.

That idea went out of the window quite quickly, I had to just leave the plastic sheets alone and they`ve just sat in a folder floating around my workspace. I never actually used the plastic sheets in the end, I thought I would be able to find a use for them with my box idea but that went out of the window again.

After working with the layered sheets and the boxes that they sat in, I spoke to Dennis and Jeremy and they both agreed with leaving my work as just regular boxes.
At first I made some small practice boxes that looked quite colourful and had been printed on to newspaper, It was the inks that I had used that made them look too bright and vivid for what I was going to do.

So, one of the main ideas as that we switched the coloured inks to just plain black and then we print on to white, then another idea was that we use white ink and then print onto black paper.
I managed to get quite a few examples of that done, and a few small boxes covered in them finished. But then when I put them all together they looked nicely finished and refined but in-finished.
So the white on black, and black on white prints where good examples but then they didn`t work in the end... Like almost everything else I`d been experimenting with.

After the discussion with Dennis and Jeremy and after going through what I could possibly do, we did discuss possibly printing on to wrapping paper.
The idea behind this is a bit weird; when you go on your phone and you`ve received a message you would expect it to be from your friend or family member who`s just chatting to you or just wants to see how your doing. So really, you expect it to be something nice; which is where the present idea comes in.
You expect a nice message and not something that`s harassing and degrading, and you expect it to be from someone you already know; not some weird 52 year old man who wants to know if you enjoy "anal".

So, after having such a basic idea of working with small boxes, we decided to go forward and begin to print on top of wrapping paper. The idea is that we`ve turned something that`s supposed to be friendly and nice to you, into something that`s harassing and disgusting.

So from turning messages from something personal, private and welcoming; we`ve now turned presents into the same kind of thing. Presents that are supposed to be nice and giving, have been turned into boxes that are harassing and are basically taking the piss out of you.

The printing onto wrapping paper idea worked really well and the prints came out quite clean. I used mostly black inks on the brown paper and the gold and pink paper. The calligraphy font worked really well especially on the gold.
Something fancy, pretty and attractive looking was turned into something that`s harassing and unsettling to see.

Basically, I winged it.
Because of the framework that we had to work within, and because we had to work with what we had done over the past nine weeks; I was seriously stuck for ideas.
If I was just left to do whatever I wanted with my final thing/resolved piece then I feel like I would of been able to produce a much better final piece.

We`ve been given the next module to be working on over the holidays, so I`m hoping that over Christmas I can get quite a bit of work finished to then take back over the holidays.
My next project, is hopefully going to be a lot better than this one, I`ve enjoyed being inducted into the whole studio environment but I want to get on with my own work now we`ve got this project over and done with.


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Last three weeks; Print Work!

 

After working with sound for a week in a freezing cold church in the middle of Derby, we only had three weeks left of university. I have finished and handed in all of my work now, I`ve just found the time to be able to upload some of my print work here for everyone to see!

But first I need to give everyone a bit of context since my work was seen a slightly offensive by some people.

At the beginning of the year we all bought objects in, three of the same; and you would of read about this in previous posts aswell.
We`ve been working with those same objects for like 11 weeks now, and we`re all getting pretty bloody sick of them too. So for the last three weeks of our first semester, we where told to work with our objects and put them into Context, my objects where three different phones.
So for my items, I thought about what our generation uses the most when on their phones; which is obviously social media. That`s literally all we use our phones for these days, so I used social media to put my phones in to context.

But what`s the first thing you`ll think of when it comes to social media? Celebrities, selfies, group photos, Instagram? Well, I didn`t want to focus on self-image and the way we see ourselves and others when online. Instead, I focused on what we get in response to putting our images online. To get a response, I`ve been using facebook a lot more, Instagram and Meetme like seriouslyyyy active in order to get a response out people.
These aren`t rude or inappropriate selfies at all, These are just normal day to day messages that I receive, that`s almost everyday. The only thing is that I now just see these messages as normal because I receive quite a lot of them on Meetme.

So then, to put my phones into context, I began to start collecting the messages I was being sent on a daily basis. Looking through them was seriously strange, I got so many weird creepy ones from people who where like 40 years plus!
I haven`t even replied to these, I`ve literally just opened the messages, taken a screenshot and then closed it again. In one day I tried to delete all of the messages I got from the day before and there was 74 messages that I deleted, 74 messages in one day just for uploading a selfie of myself!

So, I had my context, and some messages to begin working off. But then I needed to find my form of producing the work.
We where given a framework to work within, or work around. So Carl (head of the course), said that the framework should just be that we use the techniques we`ve been working with for the past 9 weeks; printing, plaster, wood and metal, etc. Then Dennis and Jeremy come along with they`re meeting, and then everyone got it into their heads that we had to work purely with a box shape.

It was quite frustrating since Carl did seem somewhat laid back about what we needed to do, and the Dennis and Jeremy seemed very straight forward when it came to working within a box or a boxed frame. It`s frustrating because Dennis and Jeremy seem to conflict with Carls ideas and plans.

Anyways, I began to print quite a bit; I managed to get about 75 prints done on to plastic sheets, packaging sheets and newspaper paper, (also some black card for experiments). I did really produce that many coloured prints, and the ones that where coloured where then used for practice pieces for my work.

I initially had this idea of working with a box, covered in the harassing/inappropriate messages and then have plastic sheets inside that all of have prints on them. Kind of like a layering effect with the plastic and through each one you can see new messages appearing.

But then that idea was scrapped, I managed to do quite a few practice pieces for that Idea and I worked with creating different sized boxes. I must of used about 7 different screens with different texts on them. Three of the screens didn`t even work, so I spent ages putting them on and then taking them off to then try and put them back on again. I also messed around quite a bit with the way the text was laid out, and what messages I was going to use to put the texts together. So there was so many weird little tests I did with words I pulled out from messages, and quite a few bothered Carl a little bit; whenever I talked about it, he seemed slightly concerned about what was coming through on my phone.



I`m going to upload some more Print work on here, then in the next update I`m going to show you my semi-final/resolved piece of work that I used all of the prints for.
Also, it links in with Christmas!

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How was my first Semester?

Well, the last week of University has gone extremely quickly; I`m not going to discuss my final piece on here though, I want to save that for my art blog since it`s been a while since I updated on there. Plus, I could do with putting some kind of updated work on there right now...

Tomorrow is my last day at University, before I break up from University for the next five weeks or so. In between that time, I will be given a new module to be working on and I`ll be picking up a few more shifts at my part time job in the care home.

This first semester has been seriously weird for me, University is just a completely different environment that you somehow have to adjust too at the click of a finger.
To begin with, I don`t even live in accommodation, so to get to University it takes me about an hour or so travel time; that`s to walk to the bus stop, get the bus, walk half way through Derby and getting into Uni. Just that in itself is rather tiring, and I have thought about moving out for my second year since I`m not too sure if travelling will be best for me when it comes to producing some more serious pieces of work.

Then the whole studio atmosphere is really strange and hard to get used too.
The 33 of us got split up into three different groups of 11, and my group was completely separated from the the other 2 groups; meaning that we didn`t get too see them that much too start off with. You get a small desk to begin with and the second and third years work busily around you... Just seeing them working gives you some sort of insight into what you`re going to be doing in the upcoming semesters.

Then the lectures, there`s three different lectures and they all come in on different days. Because they`re all in at different times, you have to begin planning out what you`re going to be doing and who`s help you`re going to need on different days. It can also be like that when it comes to the different Technicians, you practically have to hunt them down if you need help since they all get so busy during the day.

The whole University experience has been extremely strange for me, it`s nothing like they tell you it`s going to be... And I do mean that in a good way! It`s just that when the students come round and tell you everything you need to get ready for University, you don`t really need it. It`s like you actually panic for nothing.

You`ll make friends and you`ll lose them even quicker than making them! Fresher`s is bloody pointless, you miss all of the important stuff during your first few weeks and you don`t want to leave your flat at all because of your vomit covered floor and clothes. They big up all of the parties and nights out, but you miss out on vital information, you make drunken mistakes, drunken arguments and then get yelled at for not attending university for the past few days... Fresher`s is literally; get drunk, vomit, get yelled at, vomit some more.

The overall experience for me has been pretty great; I`ve only been out 4 times actually, and each time I`ve gone into university the next day and got on with my work... And each time I`ve swore that I`ll never drink again, that doesn`t work by the way.
The studio space I work in is huge and I love it! Mainly because we`re also based around the second and third years work spaces; so we get to be nosey and talk to them about the course and what we`re going to do over the next few semesters. Since Derby only accepts a small amount of people aswell, we all get our own workspace and a lot of one on one time with the tutors.

Next year, I genuinely don`t quite know what to expect.
I know that the tutors are defiantly taking a huge step back, and we become a lot more independent in the way that we work and what we start to produce. Over the next five weeks that I have off at Christmas, I also need to get quite a bit of journal work finished and I need to begin thinking about what I`m going to begin producing over the holidays.

We need to being working off of two words.
The first word has to like to the Form of what we`ll be producing, for example; 2D, 3D, photography, multi-media.
Then the second word has to be the content.
I`ve already got a few ideas, and I know for definite that I`ll be working with multi-media, but then I don`t know what the content of that work would be... Something like abandonment and then I begin working from photographs of abandoned buildings or abandoned objects that I`ve come across.
Multi-Media Abandonment... Not too sure yet.


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Sound Work From St.Werburghs Church!

For the past week, the first year Fine Art group had to work in a 850 year old church that had no heating or lighting inside whatsoever.

Within this week, we where all put into groups, and our teacher Caroline made it pretty easy by just leaving us with the people we sat down with when we went to our first lecture with her. So I was luckily with Liam, Richard, Alicia and Sophie; all of whom I get along with really well and we all worked really well in a group together.

To begin with we had to book loads of equipment out of the Equipment Centre; now if there are any damages to the items we borrow then we can be fined up till £2500 each, and if anything is a day over due, you can be charged up to £30 per day.

We where struggling with booking out equipment, we had quite a few problems actually... For starts, everything was already booked out. I managed to get out the MacBook, but no projector. And we`d already began to work on stuff with the projector. So no projector, but we managed to book out some lighting. When I picked up the lights on Tuesday, the lights I wanted had apparently broken so I couldn`t have them; instead of the flood lights, yes a floodlight, so they gave me red heads 8000. When we got them back to the church, we where given a set of three but just one was too bright for the room and we had to take them back on the same day.

The only items we had no problems with was the MacBook and the speakers.

We spent Monday starting the basic editing, and then the Tuesday was more about setting up our spaces and testing out what we`d made the day before.
Friday we had our final presentations, where we had to play our work in front of the whole class. It was seriously weird to have everyone in our year stood in a tiny dark room with no lighting whatsoever. We just had our sound work playing really, really loudly to try and portray what it was we wanted.

Our work was supposed to portray what it`s like for a blind person to go about everyday life. Which is why we wanted to use a tiny bit of lighting either with projections or large lighting within the room. We read books on blind people and read things online about what blind people can see, that`s if they have a little bit of sight left.
Because the original lights had broken, and the others where way too bright to even use. Me and Liam devised a little plan to try and use the flash on our cameras, which we had struggled to time right cause we both randomly tried to use our flashes at different random times.

It was seriously hard to do, I`d never even worked with sound before, and at Sixth form, we never even worked in groups and everything we did was individual stuff.
This was a seriously tough week... I also messed up quite a bit by going out Thursday night and hen not getting any sleep whatsoever back at Davids flat. I still managed to make it in, only just though. I was seriously sick after going out, but I crawled back in about 10am to help my group. I gave them everything so they could get on with the presentations, I felt like I would of just vomited everywhere if I got up and went in on time, it was horrible.

I`m happy I managed to get in, my lecturer said she would of been disappointed because of the amount of work we`ve been putting into what we`ve been doing.
I would of been pretty disappointed in myself to be honest, we`ve all worked our arsses off this week and that Church is a lovely place, but horrible to work in. It was hard, and I feel like everyone else`s work was better than ours in the end. Ugh, I`m never working with sound again... It was sooo frustrating to do.

I`m not sure if I can upload the sound file, it would be really cool if I could though; the recordings in it are taken  from our everyday lives, conversations and activities in the studios. So everything we did was our own work, and it took us a long time to collect all of that together in time for this week.

I`ll see if I can upload the sound work, if I can`t... Then I`m sorry!!




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