Ideas abound!

Working round the non-half term!  The travelling issue is the diffficulty, as the college buses do have a half term and therefore reliance on lifts and transport availability means I havent been able to attend every day and so have had to re-arrange tutorials listed.  On a plus note, I have been productive and a clear plan is emerging as to my direction, and near future work, which is a relief personally.  The relativity of text and how we relate to others seems to take up a large part of my thinking and therefore my art work is bound to show this.  The realisation of mortality has its effects also.  Analysis of personal thoughts gives me the idea that I take situations in a solemn manner although I know I am not a doleful person as I believe life is too short for that.   I have been experimenting with making my own text-works to hopefully produce a handmade book, with a difference.  My collection of religious books will be used to make this or these!  Tuesday came and Paul`s tutorials.  I have this year seen some large-scale  works at the YSP , namely Jaume Plensa and Aeneas Wilder, which were awesome, and so I can only think that my idea to go with `Implications of Scale` for my essay came from them.  What I dont want to do is appear biased towards large works as the very intricacy of some small art pieces is superb.  Wednesday saw me re-arranging my studio and am now happy with that.  Yesterday (Friday) we had an induction on the vacuum former - which could be useful for future moulding of letters and text for me.

I also became accustomed with some other machinery in 3D.  The wire heads (in studio) are what I am working on   - there will be three hopefully although the large netting is harder to form and may take a little longer to shape. The macquette fashioned with black card was quite interesting enough to bring into studio, of course it would be good to go bigger with this:

Time to concentrate on research and essay so for now, ciao!

6 weeks already!

I can`t believe we are already 6 weeks into semestre - tutorials next week with regard to our essay for Context and Research with Paul.  I may go with the Implications of Scale as my subject, although I havent seen any Christo, De Maria, or Smithson work in person the work is inspirational to read about, and try to contemplate.  I will of course take on board the outcome of tutorial and work with that.  This week was very much a thoughful one - and the books I have accrued are meant to be a further piece of art, but not as they are.
It became obvious that I wasnt happy with the format of them, indeed not happy with any of them at all.  The only way is to make my own!  All will be revealed as I think this through.  The talk at 20/21 Visual Arts Centre in Scunthorpe, yesterday, was very enlightening, very thought provoking and most of all very reassuring.   Martin Griffiths is a very humble man and his sculptural pieces take a spiritual line, that give out energy vibes as you walk and stand amongst them, and although disconcerting is quite pleasant.  He has asked for feed back on the kind of feelings his work evoked from us and I`m sure he will get plenty of good comments.  Also to see there were works from the graduation of this year, and the gallery did them proud, showing to full potential. I would love to be included one day.    Take a look at 20/21 visual arts centre - they are on line and you`ll be surprised how people friendly they are.   Now, I will continue my research and put some thoughts on paper.  Fino a settimana prossima (until next week).

Research continues:

Our work for assignments continue mainly with research in to artists we think we may have a common ground with or into a subject that we may be passionate about.  The first lecture re the emergence of installation started with Franz Marc and his contemporaries then proceeded through to llya Kabakov and his room installation - The man who flew into space from his apartment.  Installation work is a particular favourite of mine but I have made no firm decision where to explore for my essay yet, and continue to  research. I have been busy writing up the work already completed for part of my Professional Practice - Wooton, St. Andrews - together with photographs for inclusion in sketchbook.  The installation work that impressed me immensely this year was the exhibitons of works by Jaume Plensa and Aeneas Wilder at YSP.  Awesome.  I joined Axis to pose a question to Aeneas Wilder re relevance of volume to space and was surprised to receive a personal reply from Aeneas.  I include an image from his profile on Axis. 

There are some ideas buzzing around in head re another sculptural work with part of the work used in Wooton, which may emerge triumphant or change as thoughts can.  I have some definitive ideas for the religious books and hope to start on these soon.  We have a visit to 20/21 in Scunthorpe to look forward to, so on that note I say, a presto.

Exhibition week.

Wednesday 5th, was assigned for placing of works at Wooton, St. Andrews, so we met early morning and carried our art into the display areas and began the transformation of the church.  My main piece was in the pulpit, leaning up from the shelf of the lecturn to the back wall, with various additives and it was important that all parts were safe and secure with health and safety very much in the forefront of our minds.  All the cables and connections to sound effects were made safe and blocked off to avoid any possible misfortune for our visitors and of course all the artists.  The children had arranged to meet on Thursday at the church to fill their spaces and to give to Caroline the self-portraits they had made to be put on the old cd`s.  These were hung in the trees to be viewed both on the approach to the church and on leaving. The older children from the Primary School had collaged pictures after the style of Acrimboldo which were very colourful. We had all distributed leaflets to advertise the event which co-incided with Harvest Festival. Friday was the local Flower clubs turn to brighten St. Andrews with floral beauty. Barry and myself met Caroline on Friday afternoon to help with last minute preparations for the refreshments and the atmospherics, which played a huge part in the transformation. An opportune find led to an installation in the vicars room, off the altar area where Barry set up a sound spectacle with wonderful results and was a real success, with everyone impressed.   We had 18 donated raffle prizes, and together with the auction and saleable home-mades we were hopeful for a good return for the fund. `Treasures in the Midst`, the first of our collaborated exhibitions was a big learning curve for us, but all in all it was certainly worthwhile.  Sunday evening saw St.
Andrews returned to its normality when oddly it seemed the church echoed our feelings of inevitable culmination.  My personal reflection to end with this week is that ` Art in its many forms is one of the finest ways of communication, it has no restrictions of age, race, or creed.

Cordiali saluti, Suemuse.

settimana tre (third week)

Time moves on - the phenomenon intrigues me - we can and we must keep up with it.  I have been busy planning the piece for Wooton church, St. Andrews.  Barrie and I have also been making lots of saleable items to make some money for the church fund, which incidently is for the installing of toilet facilities for the congregation.  I have been assigned the pulpit area for my main piece and I wanted to include some sound to appear to be coming from the pulpit.  Hopefully the recordings I have taken I will be able to transfer to a disc to enable this to happen.  Caroline, has been distributing leaflets and postcards to the children of the Wooton Primary school who will also be taking part, putting their work in the grounds of the church, and also speaking to the School Head, which is essential.  The trio group (Caroline, Barrie and myself) have invited other artists to display their work this weekend also.  The c.v`s were completed for the professional practice work.  I feel my explanation about what I intended to carry on doing after my graduation - which is a positive feeling - didnt go too well, but I intend to carry on producing art in my own way and I`m glad to be part of the art scene of the moment here in Grimsby! I have made some wonderful friends and I`m thoroughly grateful. Positivity reigns within the power of three.  Fino a settimana prossimo, Suemuse.