Overall throughout the project I have really enjoyed the concept of exploring myself as a person within different topics and developing towards my own interests and fascinations. These have included influences from people around me, my hobbies, likes, dislikes to name just a few.
To begin with we looked at self-portrait. We had to think of what our portrait consisted or if it involved our face all together. To do this we created three mood boards (or collages), showing what as an individual our personalities, interests and influences effect our day to day life. In response I did one on family and friends; on what they introduced me to that I enjoy, hobbies and interests and past creations on what I have done within the artistic world. I quite enjoyed doing this, even though very basic, I could very quickly draw inspiration from them and used this throughout my project.
We then took these mood boards forward to express ourselves as our identity. In self portrait I looked at chess pieces and what chess as a game made me feel overall. I took this forward and played around with the printing process.
Creating a number of designs I took inspiration from Marq Spusta on how he uses weird and interesting designs, combined with inspiration from Andy Warhol’s flat bold colours. I played around with knights, queens and rooks. I took this idea forward and continued to add different elements of animals that represent my families personalities, but decided to drop the idea for more successful options.
Following on, I looked at ceramics but this time the topic moved from self-portrait to text. Here we resemble words as our art form. I found the whole topic very challenging as I do not follow well with designing fonts.
Here my two main artists that I took inspiration from was Tracy Emin on how she uses her own hand writing to repeat her feeling and emotions with events happening within her life. My other inspiration was Grayson Perry who shows world wide problems though decorating classical vases.
In this I really liked the hand writing affects you get with squeezing slip out of a bottle, even though the general topic and ceramic I found very tedious. The board cutting from magazines and newspapers were incredible samey as well. Overall I wouldn’t of liked using text within my own artwork.
Finally, we represented place and expressing that as our identity. Unfortunately, the snow decided to come in and stop lectures within the last week this this was going on. As a result, I am waiting for the outcome of the laser cutter my Ironbridge that I did. As a lover of sunsets I created some ink painting, which I think are my most successful, that I really enjoyed. I experienced a new way of working that I believe that my artwork has benefited from taking inspirartion from Maggi Hambling. We looked at mapping our travels from university to home, and combining with our class to create. A little messy how it came out, but still an experience that bonded the class together.
We also did a group visit to an art museum and used their resources to research a artist there in relation to our own work. I choose Michael Lyon beucase, even though I disliked his work, the abstract work closely resembled what I was doing with sunsets, in fact his whole work was inspired though landscapes and human form.
To conclude the project has had its ups and downs but I have experienced different researching methods and techniques that I haven’t of thought of before. Especially with working with new and exciting medium that can translate to my own work.
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