fingers crossed this works!!

Aparantley you can blog via your email so here goes!!

 

I came across these in Tescos and pick a couple up. I thought they would be more suitable for our exhibition as they include everything we need to hang them. It saves us the complication of dragging a large piece of wood and worrying about the weight/appearance etc.I could always pick up some more if you guys think two isnt enough?Also, the colour fits in with your installation Becky! x

A work update

I did try pushing shells I collected into a roll of clay and then I proceeded to pour plaster into these mould's, however I found the shells produced were thin, fragile and therefore I deemed this method as anulled. I then came up with the idea that I should use a chocolate mould I found on Amazon. It provided more sturdier symmetric  shells. A generic shell is much more fitting with the concept I would like to proceed with as stated above. I thought i should add the reason I choose plaster as a medium as I enjoy its properties and its colour is appropriate for this assignment.

This is what they look like after they popped out of the mould, I am struggling to form perfect shell moulds without air bubbles forming.

This is how many I have produced so far, I think I may need to double the number, what do you think?

This is a closer version of the shells.

Should I scape the insides out of the shells or leave it solid?

Ok girls, I my need your imagination here, I will fill  a bucket with sand and these shells, like this very rough image of what it will look like and then have more shells on sand scatter around the bucket with a spade. It will be an installation piece representing the generic memory all people seem to hold when they think of beach childhood holidays. 

Do you like the concept?

My concept for my piece,

Ok, this my concept for the project girlies so please comment if you can.
I am wanting to create a an installation piece of sorts using the theme of childhood beach holidays. As through my research and asking friends and family. There is the generic theme of playing in  the sand, building sand castles and finding/collecting shells.
So I have been experimenting with ideas on how to represent it and bring the research I have made to produce a piece.

I was thinking of backing a back drop , a college of sorts like the Susan Hiller (see above) using imagery like I have already uploaded on the blog. Then in front of it I was wanting to have a bucket and spade, sand and shells.
As though recreating the generic imagery associated with a childhood beach holiday and keeping with the general public ideal of this holiday I will keep the colour's of the shells/bucket/spade white to keep this generalisation. Its neutral, and its purpose is a prompter combined with the post cards to take the viwer's back to that time in their lives.  (I know its badly phased, I do apologise for this.)


Please tell me what you think???

Tate visit with Sarah and Julia 23rd April

These are a few photos I was able yo take of the Orzoco's exhibtion in the Tate modern. Although I wasnt fortunate to take photos of the pieces I did enjoy of his work, I can say very easily this a man with vast ability to work in many mediums and styles of Art fluently. I found his most famous piece being the skull with graphite drawings of a check design disturbing. I just didn't feel right to use a human skull in that manner.
Sarah was able to take photos of the pieces I enjoyed the most and will comment accordingly.

Hey hatty,

Hey hatty,
Sarah and I were wondering about how we are envisioning the exhibition space. How we would link all our works together in a well formulated way that all our pieces shine on their own and  help support each others pieces as well. As we don't know how much space we will be given I was wondering if you knew the dimensions of your work so that we could start thinking about what to do with our work when it comes to exhibition day.

Thanks x

Yay the Blog still works and a belated upload of the Summary of my impression of the Presentation

I believe overall the presentation went well. We all managed to be there and I feel the presentation flow between us was good. Although we all have totally different intentions how we want to take this subject matter of Childhood forward I feel our presentations linked nicely together.

On a personal note, although personally I feel in the future I should leave extra time to learn my presentation section better as I did lose my place at times and that did cause panic in me when I forgot what was coming next, however that could be nerves. I feel I did engaged the audience by maintaining an eye contact with them and trying voice my ideas and intentions to them.

Overall I feel as group we did splendidly!!! :) 

I really hope this works!!

Sarah and I have been struggling to upload to the blog for quiet awhile now. If this doesn't work we will set up a new blog as link this one in.