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Osteo Poly Clinic by Ermolaev Bureau

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Art by Kate Ingold.

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Art Project: Boundary

A reading list that was suggested and the first one looked at was Berger on Drawing - Drawn to that moment

http://www.spokesmanbooks.com/Spokesman/PDF/90Berger.pdf

In this section Berger talks about his recently deceased father. After he died he drew several pictures of his father in his coffin, of his face and head. He goes onto talk about a story during a life class; the students were uninspired and instructed the model to collapse, Kokoschka (teaching the class) rushed over only to pronounce the model dead on the scene. The model then got back up onto his feet and resumed his pose. 

‘Now draw him,’ ‘as though you were aware that he was alive and not dead.’

The paragraph goes on talking about that after the theatrical experience the students drew with more ‘verve’. (Verve - with spirit or enthusiasm) ‘Yet to draw the truly dead involves an ever-greater sense of urgency’. He believes that what ever you do, make or create will never be seen again by anybody else; this gives me the feeling and thought of ephemeral. Nothing ever truly lasts. Taking that opportunity to take in the moment that will never ever be again.

I want to say that I can relate to this as my biological mother too passed away when I was eight years old.Art was my therapy. I remember spending day after day going to school then coming back home, eating then going straight to my room to just draw. If anything I did not want to draw my mother at all; I didn’t want to think of it, hear of it or anything as a matter of fact. It didn’t hurt me when my family members and family friends spoke of it but I guess that is where the social boundaries lie in this scenario. What I did not like however was telling people or having people ask me about my parents. There was that mental blockage where I just could not talk about it even though it didn’t hurt me. Over time as I got older I learned how to be able to not grieve but let emotions out through talking.

I guess what I’m looking at is the ephemeral boundaries of life and death. not entirely sure yet how I am going to be able to start translating them into art work.

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broken, but covered in jewels (at Brewery Art Los Angeles)

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27th Sept Monotypes of objects which need to create some form of narrative. Mine was bags; each bag contains or holds some form of memory both sad and happy. Monotype prints kind of capture the more dismal side of the story. Next step is to figure out how to express the happier emotions

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Friday 23rd September Charcoal drawings and ice breaker to finish off induction week. Decided to go 3D ad create a small theatre set

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Ruskin Mill Project: A Constellation of Wise Owls

My most recent project. The class was separated into categories such as “Fine Arts”, “Graphic Design”, “Fashion”, “Animation”, “Product Design” and so on. Each category had to come up with a specific final piece.

For primary research we visited a place called Ruskin Mill, a Steiner school that runs a college that houses and shelters students who have special needs such as Autism. This was also the place we were to exhibit our works. 

This project challenged me to restrict myself in terms of how I worked. I usually jump from one idea to another doing a lot of things, ending up with a big body of work without any actual final pieces. I restricted myself in terms of how I work to understand a small aspect of autism as the school and the students there became my theme for the project. This lead me to  Annegret Soltau. An artist who creates almost disturbing collages and pieces using black thread. With her as an inspiration along with the black line thread, I went on to working with Asitate papers and opaque pens to resemble the layers of different symptoms or characteristics of austism. Unfortunately this idea did not get very far. I needed the faces of the school which I feel would have breached some ethical boundaries. However the line drawing idea stuck with me which lead me to continuous line drawings of animals on a plank of wood. The idea was to represent Ruskin Mill as something natural which was wood and the line drawings of animals that the place shelters.

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Concertina books:

During class trips out to town or anywhere I would create a concertina book to record my journey for the day.

The fine liner and water colour pieces are quick studies of marble sculptures and metal works found in the Bristol Museum and Art Gallery.

“Lines of Vision” and “Private View” are my response pieces towards the quick studies. We were tasked to respond as a graphic designer that day.

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3D WEEK:

One of our week long projects was 3D. We were tasked to create pieces using artists such as Antony Gormley to draw inspiration from. I decided to make a stuffed doll like man made from Calico fabric as a response to his community based sculptures such as “ ASIAN FIELD” in 2003. Each piece was created by him and a whole community in that location which meant that each piece that was created for the installation represents a person. the sculptures are nothing much of size but the way it has been assembled. Almost doll like sculptures with no other features but holes engraved into the clay as eyes. His clay sculptures also inspired me to create a small collection of buildings, a car and Lady Liberty. I tried to avoid straight lines as much as possible to mimic the field installations of Gormley’s little sculptures.

Materials used:

Clay. Calico fabric. Hazard tape. Blue thread (to seal the doll but was used an excuse for hair). Red and Green acrylic paint.

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Life Drawing:

Sometimes my tutor Chloe Regan would get us to do life drawing sessions simply just for fun and to build on our drawing and observation skills. Not everyone in my class is confident enough to try and try again until they do feel confident to show off what they have done. Personally I love life drawing. Faces in particular fascinate me because they are all different unlike the human body in general. We all have two arms, two legs, two feet, hands, hair, neck, knees and so forth but the one thing that differentiates one individual to another is their face.

Materials used:

Brown sugar paper (not entirely sure). Black charcoal and white chalk.

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FLESH WEEK:

One of our short projects was flesh. This was for me quite frustrating and the reason for that was due to the short and limited time we had to study the pigs head and pluck (guts from tongue down to the intestines). Instead of enjoying the task of studying the shapes, colours and how to create the textures, I was rushed to produce pieces with as little mistake as I could. Never the less the week long project was enjoyable as it still allowed me to play with little ideas that no one else in my class thought of doing. An example would be the “PIG PLUCK” piece. The guts were all like a big knotted piece of slimy thread which gave the idea of using actual thread to almost illustrate it with colours corresponding to the actual thing.

Materials used:

Black Indian Ink. Pencils. Water colours. Thread. coloured pencils. (Pieces not shown and would rather show pieces in person) Oil paints.

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POP UP SHOP:

During the Christmas season we were tasked to create pieces of art to sell at a pop up shop that took place in the visitors centre at the Clifton Suspension bridge. we were also set a theme of my home town Bristol.

After a day of planning I ended up taking and proceeding with the idea of post cards of hand painted buildings and landmarks from Bristol.

Materials used:

Blank postcards. Black Indian Ink. Watercolours. Fine liners.

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NIGHT PROJECT:

Art style and technique closer to Guy Denning’s approach.

Materials used:

Black charcoal. White chalk.

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NIGHT PORJECT:

Another art style and techniques used by Guy Denning.

Denning also uses newspaper letterings or parts of a newspaper article as backgrounds and works on top using black and white charcoal and chalk.

I decided to use the magazine page as the background to mimic Denning’s style but only use black Indian ink painting only the negatives.

Materials used:

Magazine. Black Indian Ink.