For this task we had to make around 10 small objects or sculptures with a limited amount of time, the objects were not suppose to be or resemble anything. To make the objects we used a variety of materials for example, wire, foam, acetate, cardboard, wood and fixings including tape and cable ties. At first I found this quite challenging as it was difficult to stop myself making things that already exist, but after I started experimenting with bending and folding the materials, and using more than one type of material for each object I began to find it a lot easier. I’m really happy with how a lot of my objects turned out.

These are a few of them,

My main areas of strength include visual communication, coming up with and developing ideas. I think that I am quite good at communicating what I want to say or do through visual techniques, for example mark making, continuous line or quick drawings, collage and photography. I think that experimenting with different medias helps you to find the best way of displaying your thoughts and ideas. I think that coming up with interesting ideas is a strength of mine, I think it’s good to get ideas from your surroundings and things happening around you. I also find it really useful to write all my ideas down as this often helps to you to link things together and naturally develop your work. Another thing I think helps you to come up with and further develop ideas is talking to people as then you get another perspective.

Some areas I have realised I need to develop are research, refining my work and going into more detail about how and why I have done something. During the diagnostic stage I learnt a lot about different ways to research which don’t involve just searching on google, for example using the library and resource library and visiting galleries such as the tate modern visit, which is classed as first hand research. Most constructive resource I have begun to use has been my blog, which has allowed me to reflect on my work from day to day, being online in the public domain allows my friends to have easy access to give me further critic on my work, which has been the best tool for me and my work over the last month in the diagnostic stage. I have also learnt that your sketchbook does not always have to be a neat and refined means of presenting my work but is more useful way to just document all of your ideas and research no matter how rough it is.

During the developmental stage primarily I hope to experiment with different materials and techniques, trying new things as well as tcontinuing with things I already enjoy doing. I really want to use this time to try things and decide what I want to focus on. I would like to mainly focus on fine art, for example sculpture and conceptual pieces. I find conceptual art interesting as everyone understands it from there own perspective but they can also find out about the artists personal meanings behind the work. I would like to make work which is somehow interactive or an installation piece as I think these are ways of making your work exciting and engaging for your audience which I think is very important for art to be. Another thing I am interested in doing is theatre design, I would like to experiment with making sets and costumes. I have always been interested in and quite often involved in performing arts, I like the idea of working from a narrative or story and figuring out ways of showing that on a stage.

For this project I decided to focus research into the Windrush generation scandal as it is a very current mistreating of people from the Caribbean involving threats of deportation to people who have spent almost there whole lives in the UK.

I wanted to create a piece of work inspired by Basquiat, who was influenced by the music, media and politics around him. Basquiat influenced many current artists.

 

Prevent – Embrace your community and everyones culture, create inclusion not suspicion 

 

 

I found looking round the Tate very interesting because although I have been there before this gave me a chance to look at the pieces more in depth.

I like Jenny Holzers LED signs as some of them had really interesting statements from different people particularly in the piece They Left Me, 2018.

I also really liked the documentary footage of Niki de Saint Phalle making her Shooting Pictures as it was interesting to see it alongside the piece she made.

On our animation lesson we learnt about lots of different things animation is used in, there were a lot more than I thought for example, in apps, architecture and games.

We then had to choose a zeitgeist of our generation that we would do our animations on. I chose becoming environmentally aware and chose to focus on the bid to stop using so much plastic. To show this I did a plastic straw being replaced by a paper one.

In the film lesson I learnt a lot about different types of lighting and the way different types of scenes are lit. We also learnt about the rule of the thirds, keeping actors in one third of the screen.

We then had to create two films in a group based on one of the 7 deadly sins, my group chose gluttony.

In today’s session about photography we learnt a lot about the different settings on the camera such as the iso, aperture and shutter speed and how they effect the pictures you take.

We then had to go and take one “bad” photo, we then looked at all the bad photos and discovered what was interesting about them and that saying something is bad is very subjective.

Then we had to go and take some photos which reflected light and shadow here are 4 of my favourites.

 

We had to choose a topic to campaign about and create a typeface for it. I chose to base my campaign on body positivity, the slogan I chose for my campaign was “my body is not a fruit”. Focusing on campaigning against labeling women’s bodies as different types of fruit such as “apple shape” or “cucumber shape”.

I also reflected that in my type face by designing it using fruit.

We had to go out and find every letter of the alphabet in a different font, these were my results: