Walking through the new extension at the Moma I was became intrigued with artists’ rendering of portraiture through sculpting. I became interested and inspired to use them as ways supports for my own paintings, using them as a way of conveying the idea of a portrait through an artist’s rendering of what a portrait is. …
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Sadie Benning and Collages
I came across Sadie Benning’s work at the Moma, I stood in front of her work for an extended period of time, I was blown away by her use of collage, the way in which she creates conversations between different media and makes it work on the picture plane.
Felix Vallotton and portraits
I went to see a Felix Vallotton show at the MET in New York, and I saw those brilliant Lino prints where one can see the mistakes he had made while in the process of sketching out. Some Linos end up having double faces and ghosts of previous images. I found those great inspiring within …
Group exercise
We were asked as a group to make a plan of our upcoming work and create a brainstorm of our ideas and aims for the next project. It was interesting to see what my peers thought of my plan. I however regret not having included images in my original plan, as I think it was …
Work in progress
Following a tutorial with Ian, I was advised to make a series of small paintings, that would describe the ideas that I had in mind. For this ongoing series of works I was aiming to describe a sense of emergency, whist at the same time paying great attention to my choices of colour and layering.
Kara Walker – From black and white to living
We visited the Kara Walker show at Sprueth Magers. I found her work extremely inspiring, in the sense that it played with shadows and silhouettes. I have been trying to represent that through my work, using the idea of an image, or its ghost as a way of being. I find this particular show of …
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Epic Failure Lecture
In this lecture, Adam told us about failures, and their positive aspects. It was a very alleviating lecture, especially given the amount of failures that I had encountered in the past few weeks with my work. The three main points of the discussion revolved around: 1 -What is Failure 2- What does it mean to …
Adam Tutorial – Katy Moran and Karla Black
During our tutorial, Adam spoke about colleges in the States that I could do an MA in. He mentioned that I should look at the work of Katy Moran, her use of an open plane and the aesthetic of domesticity as linked to feminism. He told me to be critical of the materials I use …
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Jenny Reinhart – Painting on wool
I came across this image on instagram and thought that I should make a note of it.
Tate Modern visit – Nam June Paik
I found Nam June Paik’s work interesting in the way in which it layered video work, his superimposition of colours and video installations were extremely eye opening. It gave me ideas to potentially branch out and use video as way of creating compositional layerings. In the image below, I found his way of painting on …
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