I have always documented my art work on this blog but since graduating from university in June, the posts have become fewer and the existing ones have gotten lost in the feed of makeup and lifestyle. So, I have decided that having a page especially for my artwork would be the best idea to keep everything at the fore front ready for me to add to it when I want to and easily be able to share it with you all!
This will be a photo heavy page but ill add in some writing to explain the thinking behind the projects also.
Childhood / Adulthood
Childhood / Adulthood was my favourite project to date. I really immersed myself in the work, finding the connections between children and adults within children's book. This project was all about distortion of books to create new narrative and personality within literature and imagery.
Dissertation - Absence and Presence in Art
Dissertations are dreaded by all from day one of university and I was just the same. But, somehow I really enjoyed writing my dissertation and I'm really happy with how it turned out. I chose a very interesting, unique topic "Absence and Presence" which kept me interested from start to finish and I hope it will be the same for you to read,
Emotion In Art
Emotion In Art was a collage based project focusing on film and media, I combined imagery to create new imagery with my interpretations into the layers and story telling. i didn't make one final piece for this project, there was a selection but this is my favourite outcome..
Zine, Interrupted
Probably my most enjoyed project to date was Zine, Interrupted. A zine is a cheaply produced independent magazine usually created using a folding method using one sheet of A4 paper. I chose to use my artwork as a basis to create a flowing image based story and I am really pleased with the outcome and the A I received for the project!
Final Project - Infra Ordinary
My exploration began with animals and they way they are seen by humans but I soon came to realize that my interest was more in the way animals see the world, our world, a world made for humans. When I think of animals I think small animals because I own small animals and they are a huge interest of mine. I thought of cats, foxes, birds, mice. The animals that live in our space and have to learn to live in spaces made for us. My idea was to get down to floor level at the level of a small animals eye line and take photos of our world to experience how it feels to be small in a huge world.
I realized that I was seeing details that I had never known existed. The colours in the pavement, the things people had dropped, the remanence of human life that has been unknowingly left behind. This led me on to the theory of the Infra-Ordinary by George Perec, Perec discusses the important of the things that are seemly unimportant and unthought of. What is under our wallpaper, how many steps does it take to dial a phone number, we no longer find daily things such as walking, talking and sleeping extraordinary. But they are.
My photographs became an exploration of the world animals live in, our world that we choose not to live in ourselves. We are always in a rush, thinking about something else, simply no longer caring about the daily things we encounter to the point we no longer encounter them at all.
My work became an exploration of details we don’t see in a world we see everyday. The work forces you to get down on the floor and not only look at the photographs but also see your surroundings in a different way, feel your surroundings differently. They are a simple push in the direction of the details we usually ignore.
Please get down to floor level and view the photographs, think about how you feel at that level and take in your surroundings. Think about your space differently.
Set up for degree show
Six individual photographs close up
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