Jack Murray - BEd Yr 1

Exploring movement through organs and the internal body, thinking of the body as a machine using my 3 disciplines: painting, sculpture and combined media and graphic design.

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This is a poster revolving aroung my idea of thebody as a machine for moevemnt. Yet again I wanted to incorporate the my sculpture pieces but have them duplicated back - my odea being like a mass production/machine production belt idea on movement and the body. I wanted it to be graphic and simple yet still portray what I wanted it to, which I feel it does. It does look sim,ple though which I cannot yet decide if it is a good or bad thing: maybe I feel more inlined to think good as it took me slightly longer than I had thought it would.

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Artist Statement - Movement Brief

I am exploring movement through my 3 disciplines of painting, graphic design and sculpture and combined media looking at the organs as the moving parts of a machine, being the body.

engaged in many processes in sculpture using a range of materials so simulate bodily tissue

using materials I have never used before and learning and improving how I use them

going out of my comfort zone in terms of life painting and the tone-only approach to painting

experimented with fast paced drawing work to get movement across in the physicality of the actual drawing process

learned more skills in Photoshop and other digital resources for a style of creating I am not used to, being the design process

opened up a whole new range of designers and creative processes that I can draw from in my studies

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This is my final piece for my Graphic Design album cover brief. I think it actually works well, after asking several people if the font was legible, even from a distance, people who did not know who Cannibal Corpse was could read it as that which I was worried they might not given the intricate details of the font. I downloaded this font from a site called dafont.com which I have used a few times before. Installing it to use on Photoshop was actually very easy which surprised me, and I think it fits perfectly for what I wanted to do.

As you can see in the process pictures, I used pictures of my instestine pieces from the sculpture elective, to blend the disciplinary processes together, and I wanted to give a more real gore feel so tinted it red and added dark shadows and a vignette. I added and embossing to the type and used a stroke to make it more legible against the already red background.

These were some of the reference images used:

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I made this painting of a still life using my sculpture pieces. Theres a small timelapse of the process of setting up the display. I do not like this painting and I think it's mainly because it was done on a card sheet which still warped and sucked up most of the colour. Sylvia told us acrylic usually loses around 15 percent luminosity when dry but this was definitely more than that and I feel it may have been the surface painted on.

I tried to go back with some colour pencils and a white pen to get at least some sense of form as most of the form in the intestines part was greatly lost.

I was inspired by Cotán's style of still life letting parts hang and tying them up, and wanted to hang my intestines like that myself.

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Something very quick and explorative when in the intro to photoshop in relation to album covers. I wanted to experiment with blue and filtering and try give the text a metallic look. I think for the time I put into it it doesn't actually look that bad.

Of course for my actual album cover I intend to use my condom intestines and edit them to look much more lifelike and gorey for a Cannibal Corpse album cover recreation.

This is the simplest of their album art, as the rest is intense illustrated gore and nudity, but this one is simple, clean, and uses the text in a graphic way both easy to read while being on theme. I want to try something as simple but use my own sculpture images to jazz it up a bit.

These are some of the pictures I will use:

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Francis Bacon

Bacon was quite a tortured soul of a man and that really comes across in his paintings. The depictions of morphed faces almost reduced to just slabs of meat and the actual hanging carcusses of meat are so striking and just 'there'.

I want to try and recreate a similar feeling of meat, carcuss, bodily entrails in my still life while using objects that do not necessarily directly carry that red, pink meaty look or texture. But I just want to capture the essence of it.

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The Chapman Brothers

The Chapman brothers play with religious and war related themes with a macabre and vile sense of humour at the same time. They often use Goya's imagery, the first picture of this post being a recreation of one of Goya's 'Disasters fo War' prints.

The Chapman brothers appeal so much to my macabre, unnerving, and scary bone in my work. I adore work like this and I adore when people look at my own art and get uncomfortable and grossed out. This is a similar feeling that some people got when looking at my sculpture and a feeling I want to try and extrapolate into my paintings too. I intend to maybe use the scraps of my sculpture to make a still life painting, and laying the pieces out in such a way to make them look almost 'plopped' there to add a disgusting feel would be the ideal.

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I really enjoyed this life drawing workshop with @eoinmclsad. It was similar to the Me and You workshop last semester however we had a still in person male model which was much more intuitive. It took some bad drawings for me to get into the swing of things but I eventually got into it, no matter how stressful it mind of got. Huge props to Jeff for modelling as well.

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This was another workshop with Sylvia focusing on composition and having an interesting composition that means the viewer around without making it too busy.

Painting with card was very difficult as the paint did not flow directly off it so it took lots of patience. This workshop did not feel like I was making good compositions or images however when viewed from a distance back they looked much more interesting.

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Then I decided to try and work my old sculpture from last week into my painting somehow. Using the ink I tried painting it onto the latex skin I had draped on my sculpture thinking it could be skin that was tattooed and then removed. I think idea works well in my opinion and would love to explore it more.

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Today we explored ink as a medium to display movement in a painterly style. I used a generic reference of a volleyball player and decided to reduce the action down to as few lines as I can, then leaving in the scratchyness as it felt more movement based.

To me it started to look like Chinese calligraphy a bit which was very interesting.

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I did the life painting workshop with Sylvia where we learnt to dissect an environment and a figure into 3 tones; light, middle and dark, and using only these 3 tones and a large boar hair brush to block in these tonal values to create for and presence.

Later we hung them up after considering their position in a composition with all our pieces together to make them each pop individually.

I really enjoyed this workshop and it helped me get out if my detail orientated mindset.

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Eva Hesse

Hesse's work fits into a more minimalist, neo-surrealistic style and she likes to work in a large scale, often with installation type works. Hermove to sculpture was a later development in her life after she married a sculptor, Tom Doyle, and started experimenting in a 3D space as 2D felt limiting.

Her use of latex and natural fibres inspiredmy sculpture greatly. The natural yellows and browns give a worn and old skin look which I tried to experiment with in my own work and the draping of ropes and fibres gives an eery underlying theme whcih seems to creep into her work porbably as a result of her childhood history of being exiled to the USA and the suicide of her mother when she was young.

An interesting site to read about her and her life:

Eva Hesse — AWARE Women artists / Femmes artistes

Born in Germany, Eva Hesse is associated with the postminimalist movement. Interpretation of her work, which had early on focused on her tra

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This is a piece that I made inspired by veins and how they branch out. Made if latex and rope. I was challenged to see if I could make something that would work floor up since the rest if my piece was suspended from the ceiling. I added a wore support to it so i could stand up. If I had 12 at the very least all over the floor it would have great impact, of course timing doesn't allow me to fulfill that but that's that.

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I dyed some string to drape with the rest of my piece and I spilled the glass if paint I was dyeing with. I think how it landed looks like a pile of guts on the floor in blood which was a strange coincident.

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This workshop focused on a 'domino effect' way of looking a movement in combined media. This workshop was actually very enjoyable and instead of working individually, a group of 4 of us worked together on this and we tried to blend our sketches together.

This did end up being much more difficult to set up right, and there were lots of moments of dismay when thing would fall before starting or failed halfway through bit the video attached is the final piece working for at least 1 go.

It was enjoyable but I do not see myself continuing it I'm my own project.