Bloomsbury Festival

Abigail Downer, Mary Ward tutor, kindly used one of my images as part of the Mary Ward contribution to the Bloomsbury Festival. Students' work was exhibited on the railings outside the Centre.

Mark Halliley

Mark Halliley is a Leytonstone artist.  Website:  http://www.markhallileyart.com/
He is a visual artist and filmmaker but he also works as a voice actor, currently he does the voice over on The Apprentice. He exhibited at The Stone Space in Leytonstone last year and I bought one of his prints.

Other works by Mark

Day 4 20/10/2017 part 2

A Pair of Boots(Les Souliers), painted in 1887 by Vincent Van Gogh. 33cmx 40.9cm.

The complimentary colours blue and orange bring the painting alive.

Day 4- 20/10/2017 Part 1

Drawing the 3D pieces created earlier in the term.

Quite difficult to draw. I did one drawing and went back to drawing and painting the Dr Marten boots I drew last week. Some of fellow students mentioned the drawing of working men's boots by Van Gogh.

Day 3-- 13th October 2017

Morning session, contextual seminar with Luke.
Afternoon session, working on Term 1 project Inside Out in Art Studio.

sketch of Dr Martens

sketch of banana

Basquiat: Boom for Real

I visited the Jean-Michell Basquiat exhibition at the  Barbican.

Small gallery with the exhibition laid out well on two levels divided in to various sections covering different aspects of Basquiat's career.

The works are very powerful influenced by Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Cy Twombly, street art, graffiti and BeBop Jazz.

There is a tremendous energy about the work. He is like the young Picasso or Bob Dylan producing huge amounts of work changing and moving forwards all the time.

Inside/Out project research

I have been researching artists who have taken the theme of Inside/Out.

Class Oldenburg is an American sculptor, best known for his public art installations typically featuring large replicas of everyday objects. Another theme in his work is soft sculpture versions of everyday objects. 

Mariele Neudecker lives and works in Bristol, UK. Neudecker uses a broad range of media including sculpture, installation, film and photography. She creates glass tanks which contain  landscapes rendered in minute detail.

Cornelia Parker  is an English sculptor, best known for large-scale installations such as Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View (1991)  for which she had a garden shed blown up by the British Army and suspended the fragments as if suspending the explosion process in time. In the centre was a light which cast the shadows of the wood dramatically on the walls of the room.

Artist from Leytonstone Arts Trail

Casting Plaster Tiles

Sunday 8th October
Working on plaster tiles which were made using cardboard boxes containing small balls of clay. I am using Brusho, concentrated water colour, to add colour.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b098pd3
Watched BBC TV documentary about Jean-Michel Basquiat.
There is also a new exhibition at Barbican. Powerful artist.

Ways of Seeing- John Berger

Watched "Ways of Seeing" by John Berger on YouTube.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ways_of_Seeing

Ways of Seeing is a 1972 television series of 30-minute films created chiefly by writer John Berger and producer Mike Dibb. It was broadcast on BBC Two in January 1972 and adapted into a book of the same name.

The series was intended as a response to Kenneth Clark's Civilisation series, which represents a more traditionalist view of the Western artistic and cultural canon, and the series and book criticize traditional Western cultural aesthetics by raising questions about hidden ideologies in visual images.

Rachel Whiteread Exhibition

5/10/2017
Visit to Rachel Whiteread Exhibition at Tate Britain.
http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/rachel-whiteread

Day 2- 6/10/2017

Making moulds from sand and casting using wax and plaster.

Day 1 29/9/2017

Day 1 of Advanced Practice Art & Design at Mary Ward Centre, Bloomsbury.
Casting plaster using clay moulds.

29th October 2017