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Development sheets for project

Research

Aaron Angell: is a British artist whose art I find inspiring. I love the loose organic forms he makes, combined with natural, muted colours and small details. In relation to my project I feel like I would use these elements in making something, as ‘The Horned Women’ has a lot of natural elements in it such as the well, the moss and clay and the mountain.

“Stockinged Legs, Black Mesh” (2020)

“Castle with Stapelia Flowers” (2020)

“Crane and Ear” (2018)

“Caterpillar Engine” (2018)

“Fountain (Frogs)” (2020)

“Frog” (2018)

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The witches give the woman in the story a sieve to get water from the well. The spirit of the well tells her to line the sieve with moss and clay so it will hold the water.

I made this sieve using wire, plaster and tree bark for the handle. I used small pieces of wire to join the handle and frame to the bowl.

I then poked holes through the plaster to better resemble a sieve

Once the main part of the sieve was complete I then lined the inside with moss and other leaves and small flowers.

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Wire Wool Carders

A pair of wool carders I made using a light wire. The image of the witches carding wool is a strong one in ‘The Horned Women’. Moss is also an important element in the story so I decided to combine the two.

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A bowl I made using newspaper and a mixture of flour and water as a glue. I did about 4 layers and let it dry before painting it. I then added strings to hang it to resemble the well mentioned in the story I’m using for this project.

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Research

Evgeny Hontor is a Russian artist who uses velvet clay to create sculptures of creatures both real and imagined.

The style he creates some of his sculptures in reminds me of the Celtic La Tène designs carved on stones, shields and jewellery.

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Research

Damien Hirst - “Treasures From the Wreck of the Unbelievable”

This exhibition features over 100 sculptures, made from gold, marble, bronze, crystal and jade, of gods and heroes all supposedly lost in a shipwreck two thousand years ago.

Along with statues of Mickey Mouse covered in coral, Hirst also exhibits sculptures from Greek and Roman mythology which interested me in relation to my theme of Celtic mythology.

I really like the way he portrays the various stories in sculpture, such as ‘Andromeda and the Sea Monster’, ‘Hydra and Kali’, ‘Skull of a Unicorn’ and ‘Metamorphosis’.

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Movement Project Statement

For the ‘movement‘ project I chose to explore the movement of reflections through my electives; print, painting and ceramics.

I looked at broken mirrors, water and reflective surfaces and how the reflections in them can be distorted.

These broken, distorted images are what I mostly focused on for all three of my electives as I feel there is a sense of motion and movement in them.

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Semester Two Sketchbook

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Some photos and videos I took in the woods near my house showing the movement and reflections of water.

I then did these two small acrylic paintings based on the photos.

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Print Research

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Kirchner was a German expressionist painter and printmaker. I really like his style of printmaking as I see a lot of movement in it. Kirchner worked with lithography, woodcuts, linocuts and etching.

“The Selling of the Shadow” (1915)

“Woman Buttoning Her Shoe” (1912)

“Somersaulting Acrobatic Dancers” (1913)

“White House in the Meadow” (1920)

“Trees on a Mountain Slope” (1920)

“Two Cats” (1936)

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Print Research

Esther Hepworth: is a printmaker that I find inspiring in relation to movement. I like this series of three woodcuts she did of reflections. I love how loose and expressive they are, you really get a sense of moving water from these prints.

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Ink Drawing

For the painting elective I did a drawing on a piece of cardboard using the broken end of a paintbrush and Indian ink. As a reference I used pictures I took of myself in a broken mirror.