Deadline completed

My fellow students!

We are finished! This is a celebratory photo after our deadlines 

Eve of the deadline

I have tweaked and re-tweaked all elements of presentation but this layout by the end of the day I am happy with and thinking this will be it! But still have up to 4pm tomorrow to change things....

Deadline is in 2 days

Covering wall sockets- makes quite a difference 

We painted the walls white in the textile room- quite an improvement! But took a good chunk of today to do. 

Changing wall displays again- found the cutest Peedie bulldog clips to use! 

Should also point out the weather at the moment- currently experiencing some stormy weather or 'weather bomb' as dubbed in the media. Thunder and lightning worst I've experienced in my lifetime in Orkney which is affecting electrical appliances greatly! Studio lights today were off for a while. Also my order of the acrylic boxes are in the post somewhere but with no boats today I am severely doubting be home in time on Friday! 

How I left the set up tonight- also note the whiteboard with paper covering over the pen holders. 

Stop motion artist

I came across the artist PES last year when I did some stop motion myself. His work is very good and thoroughly entertaining 

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/12/submarine-sandwich-a-fantastic-new-stop-motion-short-by-pes/

First set up for deadline

One module less to think about

Essay finalised and submitted so slightly less to think about now! Have to focus on all the creative stuff now and Friday will be here before you know it!

Turner prize 2014

Whilst looking at the artist Simon Starling, who had been suggested to me today, an advert caught my eye on the side of the page I was looking at. It was about the turner prize 2014, slipped my mind all about it.


http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/turner-prize-2014

Edinburgh

Was a flying visit and never even got a look in the door of any galleries. 

But very festive...

Theory and practice

Been home for 2 days and got a tonne done yesterday to bring the workload down to just the essay which is about half way as it stands now. I just would like it mostly finished by the weekend, or being optimistic, finished by then. 

Then it's just all the creative stuff need to focus on then

For arts sake Christmas open exhibtion

Bit like the pier arts centre quite a few exhibits, all varied. 

I am pleased with my entries this year just have to see how they do. 

Figuring stuff out

Flip Book Machine

Been thinking about it all weekend - the people who actually made kits for this stopped years ago so I have to start from scratch!


I remember these stick connect toys that were on the go years ago but I couldn't remember the name of it, turns out it's K'Nex


Then I remember seeing a ferris wheel installation of these K'Nex at LAX airport (or Philadelphia) in the summer. So I know you can get a little motor to help it spin round, I just don't know if that would lend itself to helping paper flip round.... I need to ask around to see if anyone Engineer or Mechanical minded has any better ideas or if that would work...?

For arts sake Christmas open exhibtion

Entry pieces 

One on the left is 'leaves' a mixed media piece and the right 'untitled' an acrylic painting. (One of a few paintings I actually like of mine! ) 

I do try and give titles to my work but I just couldn't think of a title! 

I do think these pieces are stronger than my entires to the pier arts centre- had slightly more time to get things sorted for this open exhibition though. But just have to see how things develop. 

Christmas open exhibtion at pier arts centre

Opening night at the pier arts centre 

Most entries they've ever had to the exhibtion and it looked very rich and diverse. 

Me with my 2 pieces, and my name is spelt right this year! And the two pieces are also side by side for the first time 

WHY HAVEN'T I SEEN THIS BEFORE!!!!

I have been totally engrossed in this mans work - Joseph Cornell.

I just love it!

Little boxes with peedie trinkets on display - boxes, organised, peedie things... just right up my street!

“By collecting and carefully juxtaposing found objects in small, glass-front boxes, Cornell created visual poems in which surface, form, texture, and light play together. Using things we can see, Cornell made boxes about things we cannot see: ideas, memories, fantasies, and dreams." (http://www.josephcornellbox.com/boxes.htm)

http://www.pem.org/sites/cornell/# <Follow the link to a fun website about his work. 

I stumbled across Cornell when I was looking into artists who used glass boxes, which I also found out are called Vitrines... learnt a lot these past 2 hours being glued to the computer!

Other artists included:

Jeff Koons (learnt about his work in Theory and Practice, all based on consumerism)

Damien Hirst 

Joseph Beuys

Rebecca Warren

Terence Koh

Micah Lexier 

   

Theory and Practice research

Lots of research and studying for my Theory and Practice module going on at the moment. Few artists who I have enjoyed learning about I will share to you.


A piece created by Ann Hamilton, it's a fight between senses to absorb what is happening. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fJ4umqXGjM


I would love to be lying underneath the big central cloth, be very mesmerising and hypnotic.


This is her own statement of the piece
http://www.annhamiltonstudio.com/images/projects/armory/Ann_statement_final.pdf


Also the extremely well thought out architecture of the Jewish Museum by Libeskind. It's so powerful with uses of voids.


The video is about 25 minutes long but such a worthwhile thing to watch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUTkt0z_NTU

Lopness monster

At the beginning of term we got to hear the voice over of

Tom muir reading the story of the Lopness Monster. You were engulfed into the folk take and now with the video it's complete. http://vimeo.com/m/112154339

FlipBooKit

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2012/10/flipbookit-a-new-diy-mechanical-flipbook-kit/


Cool! May be another development on from the Zoetrope idea

Spinning at home

Just picked up my spinning wheel for the next month 

Looks lovely! Complete contrast to all modern things in my sitting room, nice to continue something traditional in this day and age. 

Refresh

Needed a bit of a freshening up on this page!
The background is from stills from a film sketch I did. Been captivated by the movement the Snorrie-Bone makes, which can only be really seen when it's slowed right down.

Constructive critisism

At the review the point came up,  which I was quite conscious of going into this review; that I hadn't enough 'other artist inspiration'


So beginning to remedy that now...


Came across this interesting collaborative installation:


"This moving image installation brings together choreography, textiles, moving image and sound. The work is a collaboration between artists from the Highlands and the Scottish Borders with tapestry artist Joan Baxter, moving image artist John McGeoch, choreographer Claire Pençak, dancer Shamita Ray and composer James Wyness. The work is inspired by the Orkney land/seascape, the architecture of the loom and The Weaver a short story by Orcadian writer George Mackay Brown" (http://www.aagm.co.uk/Exhibitions/Archive/2014/Between-the-Web-and-the-Loom.aspx)


The best video I came across was this: http://vimeo.com/57869818 

Spinning

Turns out spinning wheels can be temperamental! Was a lot of tweaking yesterday before got spinning. Bought proper North Ronaldsay wool to link back to being Orcadian completely 

Papermaking progress

Drying in its last stage, took it out of the press yesterday. It has turned out lighter and whiter than I thought it would be when working with the pulp, which I am pleased about. 

One of the points that came up to take the papermaking 3D and perhaps going backwards a Peedie bit to try and use the string balls to mould around. Then try and encorprate text in some way. 

I did try and stitch, with the sewing machine but it's too rough on the delicate paper. Heat press would be softer colours but with screen printing workshop refresher coming up next week that may work better? Trial and error! 

Review day

Got to use the projector - film sketch was impressive on that scale. Need to figure out the technology to get the sound to be more impact full. 

My statement on the work so far did some up my work well. 

Final layout, small scale yes but good to see the work all in one place