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First Year Art & Design LSAD

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Do mirrors always reflect reality and truth? 

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Kooky, quirky or mad!  I couldn’t help myself...

Inspired by ‘your eyes said you were feeling it too..’

Eyes are never quiet

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Robert Raushenberg, White Painting (three panels), 1951

Robert Raushenberg’s  White Paintings were considered shocking and even seen as a con when they were first exhibited publicly in 1953, the White Paintings. Since then they have secured a place in art history as important precursors of Minimalism and Conceptualism. 

This is so interesting for me where I have ended up after making my blank canvases!

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The Beginning of My Struggle with Nothing. The above is my painterly blank canvas. Plaster on Hessian

I looked at the ideas behind The Blank Canvas in Art and Invisible Art. Are they two different concepts or do they overlap?

Invisible: About The Unseen 1957-2012 was an exhibition at the Hayward Gallery about Invisible art. The idea behind it was that the works shown were about firing the imagination rather than simply viewing the objects

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The Inspiring Simplicity of Minimalism in Art, Architecture and Design

Why less is more - read about Minimalism as one of the most influential and significant art movements of the 20th century and the famous Minimal artists.

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Sol LeWitt's Incomplete Open Cubes

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I wholly object to this. Inspiration is a response to an internal or external stimulus. Inspiration is precious and formed through learning about the past, human relationships, political events....

Process is not enough. Showing up to work without inspiration is not enough. 

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A Journey into The World of Charles and Ray Eames

Charles and Ray Eames were an American married couple who over the course of four decades made a significant impact on modern architecture, furniture design, industrial design and manufacturing, and the photographic arts.

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Is Renzo Martens gentrifying the Congolese jungle?

Is the white cube a sterile class divider?

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Can’t keep my eyes off of you.... 

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This is from the Korean Pavillon at the Venice Biennale last year and partially inspired my film below

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This was quite the technical headache and still a lot to figure out with lighting and reflections and not getting myself in shot!! Would be so much better with David Bowie’s Let’s Dance

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 Resonance Experiment

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Started the day with nothing, then made something and then made something else.. 

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Cornelia Parker Neither From Nor Towards 1992 Bricks and wire 250x250x400cm Shown at the Courtauld Gallery in 2011

This is so powerful. The bricks are from houses that slipped into the sea at the White Cliffs of Dover and Parker found the bricks on the shore. The energy is astonishing, it’s as if they want to rise up, like a wave out of the sea and regroup themselves.

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Judy Chicago The Dinner Party 1974-1979 Wood, Ceramic, Textiles Triangular Table 14.63 metres each side Elizabeth A. Sackler Centre for Feminist Art - Brooklyn Museum New York

This is considered an epic piece of feminist art. I am shamed to admit that I recognise only a few of the 39 names that Chicago chose to seat at her triangular table. Her work celebrates the accomplishments of mythical and historical women. 

This work remains relevant, 40 years later women are still striving for a place at the table, regarding opportunity, equal pay, a better position in the art world! Chicago also made a tiled floor with 999 names of great women. This then reminded me of the term ‘glass ceiling’. I found the following explantation on the BBC news website. The term "glass ceiling" refers to the sometimes-invisible barrier to success that many women come up against in their careers. Management consultant Marilyn Loden coined the phrase almost 40 years ago but says it is still as relevant as ever. 

Food for thought and art!