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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