#professionalcontext1

[richardjamesbenbow]

I start my new job next month at the Angel Centre in Salford. I am really excited to be partaking in this opportunity. “I’m loving angels instead.” 😂

[izzyillustratesthings-blog]

Fran Meneses (Frannerd)

I like how the beginning of her page has a small intro of her typography and a little illustration of herself. This shows the viewer that she is an illustrator instantly, because of how beautifully detailed her intro is. Her artwork has soft features and a range of pastel colours which I fell in love with the first time I saw her work. Because her web page is so minimalistic her artwork speaks for itself which is exactly what a web page should do to best frame her work and attract the audiences' attention.

Even though her artwork is beautifully done with cute illustrations there isn’t a proper website that promotes her effectively, I think she is lacking the key points of self promotion that the other websites have, making her webpage slightly disappointing. I would like to see her promoting herself as an artist and her actual artwork.

[cj-lane]

Places to visit

Glasgow Southern necropolis - Gorbals vampire - 

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Staffa - Argye and Bute - Inner heberdes - Fingals cave

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Dundee - Strath Martime and Orkney, Shetland, Faroes - The stoor worm and The nine maidens of Dundee

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London and Liverpool - Spring heeled Jack - 

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Dumfries and Galloway - kirk maiden - The ghost bagpiper of clanyard bay

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Anglezark moors/Rivington - Boggarts, Brownies, Owd Hob, Ullerts, Morgan La Faye 

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Pendle hill - Witches -

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Aldershot Baracks - spring heeled Jack

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London Tower - The ravens and Bran the blessed/the giants head

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Hambleton hills north Yorkshire - Nothallerton/Osmotherly - The cursed boy

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Brompton cemetary - Trinity church - Lincolnshire - Tom Thumb

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Devon - The beast of Bodmin moor

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Tool for creating footprints

Suffolk - Holy trinity church - Blythbugh - Black shuck

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Southend - Essex - Ratman of Southend

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[cj-lane]

Artist research - Raqib Shaw

Raqib Shaw is a multifaceted artist who creates colourful and intricate paintings, prints rugs and sculptures that on first glance are beautiful and eye catching, they draw you in but once drawn in the subject matter is much darker than first expected.

Drawing influence from mythology, Iconography and religious stories and practices from both the Eastern cultures and Western, signs of hinduism can be seen in people with blue skin like Hindu gods Vishnu and Shiva and people with animal heads like Ganesh, I wouldn’t say these images represent any single god as there are 33 million Hindu gods many of which have animal heads or are blue.

There is also clear influences from Satanic religions and Christian religions such as dead animals and scenes of vast amounts of food representing gluttony and a skeleton staring into a mirror which shows pride.

All of this is displayed in paintings created with metallic enamels on embossed metal plates with gems, gold and glitter running through it.

I was lucky enough to attend a Raqib Shaw exhibition a few years ago at the Whitworth Gallery and it’s a very immersive experience.

The curator told us that Raqib wanted his space to seem like a living room with walls covered in a heavily patterned wallpaper which looks perfectly innocent from a distance until you get closer.

The wallpaper depicted twisted, pained looking trees with evil looking fairies and pixies climbing in amongst the branches.

There was a heavy persian rug in the middle and places to sit and at one end a bronze sculpture.

It looks like a fight scene where everybody is the same person, they have bats heads and their genitals are mouths with fearsome sharp teeth.

I chose to look at the work of Raqib Shaw because of his use of different stories, myths and tales from all over the world, I find it fascinating.

[cj-lane]

Artist research - Favio M.G - Curiot

Favio M.G is a Mexican visual artist who works on large scale street art murals around the world.

His project Curiot has been running for thirteen years and is often the focus of his murals.

 Curiot centers around Favios interpritation of Mexican Folklore which is very important in Mexico as organised religion (namely Catholicism) was only introduced to the country in the 1500s before and after then Mexico was very spiritual. 

Over time myth, folklore and religion have combined and this is what inspires Favios work. 

Over the years Favio has displayed his work individually in Germany, México  and the US and collectively in England, Germany, France, Australia, India, US, Sweden, Taiwán and México.

He has also painted murals in Sweden, Switzerland, Australia, Tunisia, India, USA, Mexico, Canada, Brazil, Germany and Spain.

[cj-lane]

PC1 Research folder

For my professional context project I knew right away that I wanted to work on a site based project, growing up in the countryside I’m very comfortable outside.

I also knew wanted to focus on folk lore stories, I’m from Lancashire, a place that has a long history of folklore from hobgoblins to witches and being the daughter of a writer I was always told stories and fables about the weird creatures that lived on the moors.

I wanted to look into other tales from all over the UK as I love traveling and exploring and this was a perfect excuse to do so whilst also discovering mythical creatures that I’d never heard of and their origins.

My research mostly centred around mythical creatures, what they looked like, their characteristics and their location as I was limited with where I could travel to and wanted to get an idea of what I was looking at and for when I got to the site and the kind of work I could make whilst there or take from there to make back at my studio.

[hennaamahmood]

Trimester 2

[michellesharplesart]

Influences on my studio practice.