I decided to make a series of mini sculptures using the makeup sponges. I liked the way they looked strong and harsh which contrasted with their soft delicate consistency. I decided to use wire as a bone structure for some of them as well. I looked at some sculptures such as Alexander Calder who used …
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Poundland Project
For this project I was given a pack of makeup sponges, the first thing I decided to do was to draw them, the shapes and texture were interesting. I then started experimenting with piling them up and arranging them in different ways, I also thought about the way people reacted to them often squeezing and …
Hayward gallery – Space Shifters
Recently I went to visit the Space Shifters exhibition, this is what gave me a lot of inspiration for my own installation project. I was really fascinated by the big variety of forms of installation, I loved Felix Gonzales-Torres curtains, they were so dynamic and were really interesting to look at as they moved and …
Cloud prints
I decided to develop on this project further by making some cyanotype prints, I wanted to capture the look and feeling of clouds, or being in the Cloud Room. for the prints I layered cling film over cyanotype paper to create the pattern. My idea for these prints would be to use them as wallpaper …
Development
I wanted to take this project further and experiment with the idea of creating emotions. I decided to change my relaxing installation into a claustrophobic environment. I filled the whole model with cotton wool balls. The viewer would have to wade their way through a mass of the cotton wool balls, this would turn something …
Installation Ideas and outcome
I knew I wanted to make an installation inside my model so I started to think of ideas. I wanted the installation to make the viewer feel something. My first idea was to make them feel trapped in, I thought of using either string or foam. I started experimenting drawing a foam maze like space …
Measuring ravensbourne project
I measured a specific space within the university with the measurements I collected I used a 1:25 scale to create a model of the space. Although I struggled making the scale model, I found it useful as I know artists often have to measure gallery spaces in order to create installations.
Final Piece
I am really pleased with how my final piece turned out, I really enjoyed this project particularly this outcome as I like how its not a conventional art piece or something have done before.
Artist research
I discovered the artist and photographer Henry Hargreaves who did a series of photographs imagining famous film directors birthday cakes. He made the cakes then photographed them in a mini set he created for each one. I really like how playful, comedic and exaggerated all the images were and this really inspired me to want …
Developing objects and ideas – the pink cake
From our objects we used trying paper to draw from them and turn them into things, I really liked taking different parts of an object and layering them or changing their positions to make something different. From one object I drew a pink blossom tree, someone asked me why I had used pink, this …
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