Chyna-Lily Rawlinson - Art Project 2018

I am a 19 year old arts student in Wellington, New Zealand. My project this year is to explore my own understanding of a contemporary experience, through the development of a body of work. My first Final piece is called HER, a room created with props and projections of a film inspired by the classic role of a damsel in distress. My second Final piece is called BLUE, a series of cyanotype prints of self portraits on white linen pajamas.

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Matisse Still Life paintings.

I found it difficult to depict figures through gestural mediums such as Painting, Drawing, Watercolour etc. To make it easier i’m trying to find artists that i like with a medium technique that id be willing to try such as Tracey Emin’s drawing style and Matisse’s still life painting. I love this and i’m willing to try it.

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Trying out Tracey Emin style Drawing of myself. And some cool paintings i found in a book.

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Self Portrait photography research for a new project

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Project 2: Blue

I initially chose to respond to the classic character a ‘damsel in distress.’ This character has been represented in movies since film existed. I started this year attempting to overdramatize the figure and make her ridiculously helpless and vulnerable. Looking back at my work ‘Her’ I didn’t stick to my intention. I was too concentrated on my aesthetic appeal, making and execution of the work. This being my first opportunity to make a big work of art, I got in over my head. I was surrounded with all of this work I had made and I missed my intention of keeping the figure the main focus. ‘Her’ is related to this work as I kept the main focus the same, me. Using self-portraits is important to me. I find it difficult as a young female artist using self-portraits as I tend to get a lot of critiques concerning gender and sexuality. Even though I find this critique quite frustrating I kept this idea in mind when executing this final work. I read this work as being very personal to me, the imagery is of one girl working dark clothing and Cyanotype Print making is used to print the images on clean white pajamas and white paper. The cleanliness is gone and now seems to have aged the images. This brings up one girls growth and change. The White linen pajamas I chose are important, as the vulnerable material is now stained blue. Blue to me means vulnerable, anxious, distraught and more or less unhappy. This is important to the work as I am visually showing the vulnerable side of me. Presenting this work, I was very concerned with how I would hang it, the shelf idea and displaying the prints as photographs gives the gallery space a homely feel, as well as the hanging wardrobe displaying my three clothing pieces.

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ARTIST MODEL: Tracey Emin

Tracey Emin is an american artist best known for her work displaying her own bed in a gallery setting. These sketches are monoprints, the personal feel to them and the blue ink is aesthetically pleasing to me, especially considering what i’m working on right now. She died aged 20 by suicide, she obviously had her own struggles throughout her life and i wonder if they ever influenced her work.

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ARTIST MODELS: Dazed & Confused Magazine (90s)

http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/33219/1/ten-dazed-covers-that-defined-a-moment-dazed-25

Dazed & Confused has a distinct style that i find very appealing, using fabric in my newest work, comes with responsibility to know what im talking about when it comes to the fashion and art world.

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ARTIST MODEL: Bernadette Corporation

The Bernadette corporation is a group of artist who provoke big political ideas in fresh and intriguing ways. They use Fashion, Perfomance art, Photography etc. Founded in 1994, based in New York and Paris, Bernadette Corporation has been producing cutting-edge, multidisciplinary work for almost 20 years.

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notes from todays crit about my work

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Untitled as of yet. 

Presented for Crit week

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First cyanotype prints on paper with the new photos

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Studio Shoot Final Images

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Practise prints using A5 Water colour paper and the new studio shoot photos. I like these a lot and i think they are my most successful cyanotype prints so far.

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Setting up my installation for tomorrow, I was unsure if i should put up my paper prints as well as the clothes but ultimately i decided on only these three garments.

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Printing Cyanotypes on fabric

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Photography Artist model: Imogen Cunningham

https://www.moma.org/artists/1332

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Photography Artist model: Bill Brandt

https://www.moma.org/artists/740?=undefined&page=1&direction=

http://www.billbrandt.com/

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More Photographic transfers using Meths, Turpentine and the printing press. Talking to my peers about my work has influenced me to use the cyanotype print technique rather than this technique. I am a bit disappointed with the result of this discussion, i am personally connected more to this technique and these images. I am very proud of myself for teaching myself, i managed to perfect this technique with these few images and the imperfections with the cyanotypes annoyed me. Where as my peers thought the perfect look was too much and i should use cyanotypes moving forward.