Came across this artist 'Blue Curry' in an exhibition in the bottom of Selfridges, London.
He has a great collection of modern style sculptures on his website,
http://www.bluecurry.com/
Check it out!!!
Thursday 28 October 2010
Wednesday 27 October 2010
My Decision: Fine Art
After eight weeks of rotation at Chelsea, I have experienced four areas of art and design. These four areas consisted of fine art, visual communication, 3D spatial and fashion/textiles. Throughout these two months at Chelsea I have learned a great deal. As much as i would like to continue in all the areas, I have to choose one to continue with for the rest of the year. After thinking deeply about the matter it finally became clear to me that i would very much like to continue in Fine Art.
The other areas were very interesting, I enjoyed the paper work and photograph manipulation in fashion and textiles. I also enjoyed working with three dimensional objects in 3D spatial. Even though I found viscom much tougher, I believe I gained a lot from the two weeks. I think that the least successful area in my opinion was 3D spatial, I didn't enjoy some of the work we were assigned, like the precise drawing of objects. I found myself wanting to exaggerate my sketches or to make them unproportional. I think this is because I like to 'let go.' The project I found to be less successful was the secret message in viscom. I found this project very challenging and i struggled a lot to come up with something sufficient enough and I was slightly embarrassed by having to put it up on the wall and talking about it.
My conception of art and design has been sufficiently modified throughout the two months of rotation. Not only have I learned new techniques and different ways of seeing art but I am now able to see beauty within the most simplest of creations. However, fine art art really captured my enthusiasm and I believe it has a great deal more to offer me. I found myself wanting to experiment with new media and materials. Just before coming to Chelsea, I had an image in my head of exactly what I wanted to produce as work throughout the year. However when i walked inside that studio, I just wanted to let go and challenge myself to create new and exciting work I thought myself to be incapable of doing.
Being in London and having so many galleries and museums at my disposal, I cant help but be influenced and inspired by so many fine artists. Each time I visit an exhibition, I just want to run back to the studio and create new work. This burst of enthusiasm has never occurred to me before, but I cant help thinking that its because of the fine art rotation. I found myself just last week in my lunch break wandering through the fine art studio when David Bachelor said ' ha - bet you wish you were here ah...?' And I thought to myself that he is completely and utterly correct!
This just enforces the fact that I am sure my creativity and passion lies in Fine Art!
The other areas were very interesting, I enjoyed the paper work and photograph manipulation in fashion and textiles. I also enjoyed working with three dimensional objects in 3D spatial. Even though I found viscom much tougher, I believe I gained a lot from the two weeks. I think that the least successful area in my opinion was 3D spatial, I didn't enjoy some of the work we were assigned, like the precise drawing of objects. I found myself wanting to exaggerate my sketches or to make them unproportional. I think this is because I like to 'let go.' The project I found to be less successful was the secret message in viscom. I found this project very challenging and i struggled a lot to come up with something sufficient enough and I was slightly embarrassed by having to put it up on the wall and talking about it.
My conception of art and design has been sufficiently modified throughout the two months of rotation. Not only have I learned new techniques and different ways of seeing art but I am now able to see beauty within the most simplest of creations. However, fine art art really captured my enthusiasm and I believe it has a great deal more to offer me. I found myself wanting to experiment with new media and materials. Just before coming to Chelsea, I had an image in my head of exactly what I wanted to produce as work throughout the year. However when i walked inside that studio, I just wanted to let go and challenge myself to create new and exciting work I thought myself to be incapable of doing.
Being in London and having so many galleries and museums at my disposal, I cant help but be influenced and inspired by so many fine artists. Each time I visit an exhibition, I just want to run back to the studio and create new work. This burst of enthusiasm has never occurred to me before, but I cant help thinking that its because of the fine art rotation. I found myself just last week in my lunch break wandering through the fine art studio when David Bachelor said ' ha - bet you wish you were here ah...?' And I thought to myself that he is completely and utterly correct!
This just enforces the fact that I am sure my creativity and passion lies in Fine Art!
Monday 25 October 2010
Fashion / Textiles:
This rotation is completely different to all the others but yet so similar. Like in all rotations, their are areas that capture my enthusiasm and areas that I found to be quite tedious. However, I did enjoy manipulating a single piece of plain paper. I found that by just slitting a section of a page and shifted it, it became something completely different. There is something so subtle and beautiful about it. I would never have thought that something so simple and easy to create could become so delicate and inspiring.
Sunday 17 October 2010
Must See:
BEL-AIR fine art gallery, Geneva
http://www.belairfineart.com/
Happened to stumble across this whilst researching
modern sculptures. There's some really interesting things at this gallery if you happen to be in the area.
Stefano Bombardieri:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR_A-Wb8KpI
3D Spatial
Now this was an interesting area. After a weeks worth of drawing objects and different structures, we were asked to research the word modular and incorporate it with making three dimensional structures. After this exercise we had to develop this idea further and create 3 different objects from words they gave but also resembling our original structures. So the second half of the week was devoted to crafting these structures with all sorts of materials.
3D is a very broad area of art and design consisting of even jewelry making. I felt that the two weeks were not sufficient enough to explore what more 3D had to offer. However I did manage to gain a lot of insight and understanding of the area.... it was quite fascinating indeed!
3D is a very broad area of art and design consisting of even jewelry making. I felt that the two weeks were not sufficient enough to explore what more 3D had to offer. However I did manage to gain a lot of insight and understanding of the area.... it was quite fascinating indeed!
Monday 11 October 2010
Visual Communication:
Now this rotation was completely and utterly different from the first 2 weeks I spent in fine art.
The two weeks we spent in viscom was a lot tougher! It was nothing at all what I am used to, for E.G.
The last project we had to do was to send a secret message from a sender to a receiver throughout a sequence. This message had to be creative, original, not to obvious or too hidden, it had to be just right!!!
Sincerely, I struggled for days trying to come up with something suitable, all my ideas where either shunned upon or fare too difficult to conceive in the time we had to produce this work.
Right when my enthusiasm was fading, I came up with an idea the night before. I think i conveyed this message adequately for my lack of experience and time. But i am sure if i was given a little longer to think on it, I could of come up with something far better. Viscom really interested me and I learned a great deal from the 2 weeks about how imagery can speak far louder than words and hold very powerful meaning and symbolism.
The two weeks we spent in viscom was a lot tougher! It was nothing at all what I am used to, for E.G.
The last project we had to do was to send a secret message from a sender to a receiver throughout a sequence. This message had to be creative, original, not to obvious or too hidden, it had to be just right!!!
Sincerely, I struggled for days trying to come up with something suitable, all my ideas where either shunned upon or fare too difficult to conceive in the time we had to produce this work.
Right when my enthusiasm was fading, I came up with an idea the night before. I think i conveyed this message adequately for my lack of experience and time. But i am sure if i was given a little longer to think on it, I could of come up with something far better. Viscom really interested me and I learned a great deal from the 2 weeks about how imagery can speak far louder than words and hold very powerful meaning and symbolism.
Tuesday 5 October 2010
Fine Art:
The two weeks I spent in Fine Art was quite amusing indeed!
I had this impression imbedded in my mind that we would be handed a paintbrush and a canvass and who ever in charge would say GO... and we would do our own thing!
However, that was not the case! The 2 weeks were guided and structured in the sense that they were trying to get you to explore alternative and new methods of producing work.
Sincerely, I am grateful this happened because I probably would have spent the whole time producing detailed figures and obscene black and white photos.
However, this gave me a chance to think of a different approach and it worked!
I spent the latter half of my time creating this abstract sculpture using scrap metal and old wood.
Without the influence of a new environment and an the incentive, this outburst of trying new creations probably wouldn't of happened...... so voila!!!
I had this impression imbedded in my mind that we would be handed a paintbrush and a canvass and who ever in charge would say GO... and we would do our own thing!
However, that was not the case! The 2 weeks were guided and structured in the sense that they were trying to get you to explore alternative and new methods of producing work.
Sincerely, I am grateful this happened because I probably would have spent the whole time producing detailed figures and obscene black and white photos.
However, this gave me a chance to think of a different approach and it worked!
I spent the latter half of my time creating this abstract sculpture using scrap metal and old wood.
Without the influence of a new environment and an the incentive, this outburst of trying new creations probably wouldn't of happened...... so voila!!!
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