Saoirse Bracken

K00270677 1st Yr BEd LSAD

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Movement Project Statement

For the movement project I have focused on the movement of the body.

My chosen electives are Painting, Print-making and Sculpture and Combined Media.

I used my sister as my main primary resource as she is a dancer a yoga teacher. I was fascinated about her flexibility and how the body can move. I continued to think about it and the more I thought I realised how truly amazing the body is and how every part of our body is controlled by one simple organ.

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Mono and ghost prints of the basic human figure from an old Irish book I found

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Combined media piece using basic figure, I used a mix of tissue paper, newspaper and modpodge, brown paper and ink to create this piece, a long with 2 poems about the female body.

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Quick sketches showing basic body movements

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ARTIST RESEARCH

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ARTIST RESEARCH

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Accordion book of dancers.

I used a mix of gouache and water colour paints as well as fine liners to make the book.

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I cut back into my lino and printed over some previously done prints to create more movement in the pieces.

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A video of one of my sisters performances for primary research to show the body’s movement

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ARTIST RESEARCH

David Hedderman

Hedderman is an Irish artist working and living in Berlin. He graduated from NCAD with a BA in fine art in 2005.

He is a figurative artist with a focus on the human form. His method of working often involves tracing the models movement on the page, overlapping poses, which creates a complex form of non-narrative but descriptive ‘score’ out of the life drawing set.

He did his thesis in college on Charlie Chaplin and Kandinsky. He was inspires by Chaplin mocking hitler in America despite America still working with Germany at this time and Hedderman says he thinks its a great example of hoe ridiculous the world can be and also how important to remain authentic it is.

His main mediums are charcoal, chalk pastels and oil sticks. He usually creates large scale spontaneous compositions.

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Some lino prints of a silhouette dancer

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Sculpture of a hand and accentuating the muscles to show movement and how they stretch to hold something

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I made a sculpture out of clay and as it was drying I noticed small cracks appearing but decided to leave them to show that not every body is “perfect” and imperfections or stretch marks or cellulite etc are just as beautiful as bodies without.

I used tinfoil as an armature before moulding with clay

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Using blue as under tones for shadows for this painting

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Looking at movement of the eyes using acrylic paint

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Taking inspiration from the painting workshop and only using 3 shades to do a painting

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I did this piece using coffee, wax and Indian ink