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Contemporary Art and Design Student Edinburgh College

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Graded unit contextual </p> <p>Born in Missouri 1931, Robert Morris is an American sculptor and conceptual artist.studied art at both the University of Kansas and at Kansas City Art Institute as well as sculpture within New York City in 1959. He took inspiration from marcel duchamp and started to create minimalistic sculptures focusing on geometric shapes and their relationship with society.</p> <p>My project fits well with this piece as I am currently looking at cube shaped enclosed spaces and also darkness and light

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Graded unit contextual Born in Missouri 1931, Robert Morris is an American sculptor and conceptual artist.studied art at both the University of Kansas and at Kansas City Art Institute as well as sculpture within New York City in 1959. He took inspiration from marcel duchamp and started to create minimalistic sculptures focusing on geometric shapes and their relationship with society. My project fits well with this piece as I am currently looking at cube shaped enclosed spaces and also darkness and light

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Graded unit contextual born in 1956 in Folkestone, England Ann Veronica Janssens is a contemporary artists who works with sculpture and interactive installations She lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. She works with light in her artworks often using muted tones to intrigue the viewer and making the piece more visually appealing to look at. Within this instillation janssens uses coloured mist within the cube like shape to give a certain mystery and relaxed feeling to the piece. This relates well coming into the final weeks of my project I like the way the cube looks and how people within it look like they feel stuck. Think about this whilst I continue maybe start thinking about darker colours?

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Graded unit contextual Bruce Nauman (born December 6, 1941) is an American artist. His practice spans a broad range of media including sculpture, photography, neon, video, drawing, printmaking, and performance. Nauman lives near Galisteo, New Mexico. He studied art with William T. Wiley and Robert Arneson at the University of California, Davis from 1965-1966. In 1964 he gave up painting to dedicate himself to sculpture, performance and cinema collaborations with William Allan and Robert Nelson. His piece "green light corridor" created in 1970 shows a narrowed corridor with a green neon light surrounding the corridor. This shows that people struggle to move or turn whilst inside the corridor making people seem trapped, I like how enclosed this looks, think about claustrophobia and small enclosed spaces going forward

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David Nash born in 1945 is a British sculptor based in Blaenau Ffestiniog. Nash works in a range of techniques and is most drawn to working with natural materials particularly with wood, trees and the environment of which they are formed. He studied at the Kingston college of art from 1963 to 1967 and the Chelsea School Of Art as a postgraduate from 1969 to 1970. Nash was elected a member of the Royal Academy of Artsin 1999. David Nash is working on site in a 'wood quarry', his first for 10 years, to create new works at Kew. David Nash is known for works in wood and shaping living trees. His large wood sculptures some of which are burned to show a blackening effect are large scaled sculptures. His main tools for these sculptures are a chainsaw and an axe to carve the wood and a blowtorch to char the wood. "Pyramid,sphere and cube" relates to my project as the blackness reminds me of my feelings that are within my project. Look at other artists who use sculptural shapes

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GRADED UNIT ARTIST SAVED AS DRAFTS SORRY! Karina Smigla-Bobinski lives and works as a artist in Munich. She studied art and visual communication at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Poland and Munich, Germany. She works as intermedia artist She produces work in a vast range of materials and techniques including sculptures, installations, and performance/ interactive art. She has exhibited work internationally in many different countries including Ireland, Russia and Singapore Ada creates an artwork within an artwork. Shown to be a giant sphere within a room it has charcoal sticks placed on the outside to draw on the enclosed walls. I like this work as it fits well with my work and is interesting to look at. Maybe think about interactive pieces?

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"Enjoy it whilst it lasts" is a 3D sculptural pice by Tim berg. Depicting for ice lollies being eaten at different stages. Inspired by the scale of the sculpture I started to make my own ice cream scoops. Relating to the memory of my papa taking me to the ice cream van when I was little. I also think it links well as it reminds me of the memory fading as the ice cream/lolly gets smaller as until there is none left, which is what I have based my theme around.

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Change Nick gentry is a British artist based in London. He uses technological materials that are recycled and no longer used today to create his paintings. He does this to show how technology in society changes so quickly that these types of technologies are often forgotten about. Bringing them back into the spotlight he tries to get the viewer to remember how technology used to be. Although I have used different technological materials within my piece my theme and intentions are very similar to gentrys work. I took inspiration from the way he uses his work to highlight the amount of times technology changes within a short period of time and is forgotten about so lies around like junk. Showing just how much we waste the technology we no longer want,need or use.

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Rachel Whiteread Born in London in 1963 Rachel Whiteread is an English artist who was part of the YBA movement. Studying at the Faculty of Arts and Architecture in Brighton from 1982 - 1985. Although graduating with a degree in painting she soon came to realise that sculpture was the art form she enjoyed most and went on to study this at Slade School of Art in London. She is widely known for her work within the media of sculpture and most of these take the form and shape of casts. She was the first woman to win the turner prize for best Young British artist in 1993 However the artwork received mixed opinions as she also was awarded the K foundation art award for worst British artist in the same year “House” possibly her most widely known work was considered as an idea for a cast in 1991 and completed in 1993 the artwork is a cast of an entire terrace house cast in concrete. You can clearly see the positioning of the windows and door as they stand out. The cast was exhibited in where the terraced house originally stood at 193 grove road London. It was later decided that the sculpture would be demolished by the council. Relating to my project and theme as I used different pieces of technology including keyboard numbers and mother boards to create door house door number plaques to symbolise that technology is within every household through different forms.

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Development drawing Danny jaurgegui is an American artist born in 1979. "Disguised ruins" consists of six separate drawings and all are layered with numerous sheets of paper. He then stains the sheets with grey gouache paint to create his line drawings. Although not directly linked with my drawings I took inspiration with the repetition of lines creating a build up of different layered geometric shapes. Then drawing in to my drawings with similar layered repeated wavey lines to create a build up of dark continued lines through my piece

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DEVELOPMENTAL DRAWING CONTEXTUAL Debbie smyth is a textiles artists who uses thread and accurately placed pins to create her 3D illustrations. She uses a mass amount of thread to draw with and create captivating contemporary art pieces. Although her subjects that she works with do not directly link with my theme, her technique and style of practice are extremely similar. I took inspiration from the way she uses delicate threads to make abstract pieces that become detailed and precise pictures when finished. My own piece consisting of symmetrical triangles layered on top of one another is similar as I used multiple different colours of threads to build up my 3D triangles within the artwork. All of my contextual research saved as drafts that's why I'm posting late sorry!

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trying to make large ice cream scoops, using plaster moulding them over a glass bowl. these work well. Could possibly paint them to make look more realistic and try to make them look  bigger  

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looking at memories and nostalgia relating to going to the ice cream van as a child.  I let the ice cream melt as I wanted to give the idea of the memory still being there but pieces of it are missing. I then started to play around with editing and audio. I like that the ice cream building back up suggests to me the recollection of a particular memory once you start to talk about it with others. I used the audio of my mum singing when she was little as well as being connected to me I also feel the viewer could possibly relate as everyone would have sang when they we’re little and it gives the idea of happiness. not sure what's happened with the water mark will have to fix this along with the lighting as I feel it is too dark.

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Final 1 At the start of the drawing project I chose to focus on abstract and word play. Looking at line and detail whilst making abstract developments and the use of children's toys/games for the word "play" I started using bubbles and ink to make prints and found these to be more successful than my abstract developments, so going forward for the development of final work chose to focus on the word "play" I tried using various colours and amounts of ink with each print I created, and liked that all the bubble prints where different. For this first final outcome I decided to draw into a black bubble print with white and black pen defining each individual bubble which I found effective. I felt there was something missing though because the prints created are small. As I liked the use of line while developing my "abstract" work I thought that combining the two of these together would be interesting. I like the repetitive line and think it works well with the bubble print making a successful outcome. However if I had more time to develop it I would make the piece larger as I feel that the bubble is too small

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