Concepts final assessment Haiku object

Studio day

Usually I would be blowing glass in the morning of a 'studio day', however other priorities are pressing ( quite insistently I might add)

Our final project for concepts is due next tuesday, the Haiku object. Progress so far.



I have also been searching for contemporary artists who have Emille Galle like influences..and luckily found Tony Hanning.

I made some sculpey stamps to impress the clay model to make a mould for a wax shell for the Larria lamp.

and more work on the wax bird for the 'three little birds' light.

Concepts: Glass studio

I enjoyed this class, well once I had the time to breathe after it. Jane Gavan is an enervating teacher. Here is a link to a segment of collectors the ABC t.v program on her fluro pink collection.

The concepts we will be investigating in this class are: Object, Light, Colour, Sustainability, Haiku, Biomimicry and Material & process.
The class was asked to give word associations and meaning to these concepts. Some are more subjective than others.

Our next task was in the library to make 3 drawings of something in nature, with a specific detail in mind like structure or shape or purpose. Our drawings had to reveal this detail without labels.


It was a bit of a hurry but here are my three.















Back to our class room all the drawings where placed on the table and then sushi train style we passed them around writing on the back of the pictures what detail we thought our class mates where wanting us to notice. Jane then gathered up all the pictures, shuffled them and handed them out again making sure we did not receive our own. With this combination we were instructed to design a "fantasmagorical" like object with the idea that our drawing would be used as a trade sketch. I had a cactus and a tree to work with. The detail of the cactus was I think the spines. The tree was a tree..I think.

A some point we went to the lecture theatre to see a talk given by Janine Benyus from the Institute of biomimicry at a conference. I came across the Institute a few years ago when I was doing some research on sustainable buildings. There is of course a lot more to it than building and it is a fascinating field one that I am glad to be reinvestigating from a different side.

Here is my Tractus. Our next task was to get into pairs and act the parts of designer and fabricator with our sketches, which helped develop our drawings to be more understandable to a third party. Jane's next words were " Now for our next class I want you to make a model of this." oh really..

Also for next class we need to gather a "collection of lightness". 5 objects for each 5 categories of light.

I feel as though I have been for a run (yes I have actually)...exhausted but alive!

The model should be made of a minimum amount of different materials, uncoloured and as light on "heat beat treat" manufacture as possible.

Concepts, Body as site, Week 8

The body and space.

Sean O'Connell our tutor..(do check out his Jewellery and sculpture) showed us clips and film of Rebecca Horn, Stelarc, Oskar Schlemmer.

This was to warm us up for our own exploration "Lines on the body".
Examine the notion of personal space, bring an abstract idea into reality. the reality part was 3 other class members, foil, wooden skewers, string, sellotape and other bits and pieces.

HOMEWORK..Sorry Assessment task:
Your bedroom and body
Understand the relationship between your body and your room

As a person who at the moment sleeps in 4-5 different places this is interesting.
My first thought is to do something with the doorways and entry as each is different.

Concepts, Materiality and process, Week 7

So the inside out project developed from my brainstorming as:

take the idea of bringing out what is usually on the inside to the out side. Expose it or display it.
What do we have on the inside apart from flesh and bones? thoughts & memories among some.

How do we access others thoughts and memories....writing, talking, photographs, drawing...

Take some bio/ autobiographies (admitedly one fiction book for padding)glue them together cover to cover to create a circle, spines on the inside.
Biographies are one way for our thougts to escape the 'insideness' of our heads.

From the books i have sliced out quotes that stand out delicately on coloured wire.
Images that represent some of the main feelings expressed within the books are also wired to the pages. So to with some photographs contained within the books.






Said object did suffer slightly being flip flopped to the floor on my entry to the assessment room via a slop of clay..I kept some sort of balance whilst throwing everything I held upwards...i'll try and keep better composure next time.

Concepts, Materiality and process, Inside out project - easter break

hmmm last project title is inside out start thinking..


Inside out?
first thought is about turning your shirt or jacket inside out to deflect the gaze and amoral trickstery of faery.
shows the marks of the maker on the inside, like seaming and stitches, thumb-prints and drawing lines.
what is usually protected being exposed.
wrong way around
not it's / her / his usual side
showing emotions deeper feelings
same but different...
clothes inside out...in a hurry, forgetfulness, absentminded, careless
confusion, mixed up
ransacked turned inside out someone has gone through all your stuff..violation
back to front
postmodern architecture..pompidou centre... lloyds building in london.
Richard Rodgers' architecture especially the two example mentioned above have all pipes, lifts, wires etc on the outside (usually contained within a building)to give a clean unencumbered space on the inside
exoskeleton
cut open something turn it back on itself and lay bare in pictures and small objects the thoughts and memories from the inside
old books ?





Inside out tin box by jamie newton



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Concepts - Materiality and Process, Week 6

My Material is rusty bolts and nuts. The two are now through age, time and oxidisation fused together. see scan

I'm pinning my whole bunch of concepts on the theme of metamorphosis.
The transformation from shiny man made precision useful tool to a more organic form.
the fusion of two parts to make one. The triumph of nature over the man made object..eventually.










After learning a few tricks on photoshop:

the bolts copied and rearranged to create a horse like sculpture. reminiscent i think of ancient representations. Amazing now how the bolts suggest such animation in their new curvy organic shapes. I immediately think of horses legs when i see them, so here goes for horse made out of bolts...

Horse has bolted















A mock up showing massive reproductions in a sculpture park, the back drop is the Dooralong Valley.










A line drawing print for fabric for a chair...hmm what kind of chair..well I guess it would have to be a Hob nob.



 
 
 

Concepts - Materiality and process - Week 4

T. As a group pick one object of your three for each student. Come up with a word list that relates to the objects selected. From these words consider / devise a concept, material and approach to make an object that represents those words. Select materials and make object.

Words from our group's four objects:
organic, geometric, movement, direction, deconstruction, cutting, gluing, tearing, dense, delicate, translucent, natural, spirals, layers, textured, versatile, light weight.

Our concept was to start with a geometric form and then scramble organic forms over that. With balsawood, paper, glue, string and ground hebel brick our team of four set to...

The four original 'objects' and their collective 'child'






















Vocabulary: Language of Object

Deconstruct, manipulate, code-meaning, text (object/artwork) symbol, design, signify, signifier, signified, appropriate, transform, distortion, transmute, infer, allude, camouflage, senes, sensory, materiality, metonym, rupture, resistance, tactility, mimic, confusion, erode, corrupt, multiplicity, resistance, distortion, metaphor, narrative, encrypted, rhythm, fluidity, surface, conceal, contain opacity, melt, opacity.

Obsession Yayoi Kusama..art as therapy. Object ration and Mental illness.

Aesthetic approach: abstract, literal, figurative, stylised, expressive, metaphoric, pragmatic...

Concepts - Materiality and Process Assignment one Week two

Q. Using found or recycled material make three complete objects using three different processes.

Material Cardboard

Object 1. torn cardboard soaked in boiling water left to dry out a bit till damp.
A small glass wrapped in cling film was used for the mold.
ala cone moth style but adhered with PVA glue pieces were attached to one another.
www.brisbaneinsects.com




















Object 2. Imagine cross sections of an object. I cut out the flat pieces in cardboard from small to wide to small again stacked and adhered.
















Object 3. woven cardboard.

Concepts - Materiality and Process Research journal Week two

Q. Research 3 Artists in your studio. (Glass). Try to find artists who use unconventional approaches to their work.


Dale Chihuly
www.chihuly.com
Blown from a height
Chihuly is a maker even though he doesn't so much make, as direct his ideas now. He paints colouful concepts for his team and works with them through the blowing process. He has been accused and criticised of spectacular-ism (not such a bad thing in my book considering where that has pushed glass as an art medium) Such criticism is expressed adroitly in "thinking through craft" (Adamson 2007)














Bio from Dale Chihuly's web site

Tevita Havea


http://www.anu.edu.au/art/GradShow2005/slide40.html
http://www.wexlergallery.com/artists/glass/havea/index1.php
http://glasscentralcanberra.wordpress.com/2007/12/21/the-art-of-tevita-havea/
ccas link to Tevita
http://glasscentralcanberra.wordpress.com/2008/05/22/hunks-of-glass-the-curatorial-overview/



Jess Loughlin
cast glass. "Glass as canvas"

http://glasscentralcanberra.wordpress.com/?s=jess

"I see these forms as freestanding pictures that use light as their
canvas" Jessica Loughlin 2008.