Summer Research

For my Research Project i started with I went back to the first discipline, which had started my fascination with becoming an artist, black and white photography. I started taking photos of random objects I could find within my house that had some sort of personal attachment to.

One object was a bracelet I brought while my closes friends and I was at Notting Hill Carnival, because this was a rare occasion where we could get together, this item means a lot to me. (below Photos 1 + 2)

Photo 1

                                                                    

Photo 2

I manipulated the bracelet to change its appearance and to create different forms. The photos from both of these objects inspired me to paint linear contrasting monographic paintings below (painting 1 & 2)

Painting 1

Painting 2

I also took photos of caved wooden figure I was given. They have a hopeful angelic look about them that contrast against the dusty wings and emptiness of the space around them. (photo 3 & 4)

Photo 3

Photo 4

Again these photos i later found inspired my linea and contrasting paintings below. (painting 3 & 4)

Painting 3

Painting 4

The third object I photographed was of a piece of dried up, dead coral which my mother had given me to use as a painting tool. ( photos 5 & 6) I found it to beautiful to cover it with paint and stored it waiting for another use. I found it interesting how this piece of coral which had once been soft, bright coloured moving living thing had become a hard, dull coloured hollow skeleton, yet after death it still have this beautiful delicate detail to it. After these photos I started painting, drawing and sculpting from them. While using wire I created different sized cylinders and wrapped them in wool to show the contrast between hard and soft, organic and inorganic. Before I knew it I had created what appeared to by living sculptures with their own little characters. ( image 1)

             

Photo 5

Photo 6

Image 1

I felt that with my exhibition coming up that i wanted to use these pieces some how.

Artist Statement

Artist Statement

As a busy mother I find my work as an artist to be cathartic, for me creating artwork is about escape from the mundane routines of every day life because when I am in my studio I think only of my work. I would call myself a Fine artist because I feel the media I use can differ from one project to another and I prefer not to be restricted to one type of practice. I would like my work to cause people to stop and to reflect, I would like my viewers to question my work as I often, and I find the viewer’s portrayal of my work interesting than the work itself. I tend to work with inorganic material yet try to portray an organic presence. I am inspired mainly by humans’ ways of thinking and by their physical form. I feel, no matter what size or shape the human body is, it creates beautiful lines whether they are feminine or masculine. My work is sensuous and provocative, and reflects myself within occurrences in my life at the time of creating it. Even though my work is mainly about myself I still want the viewer to have their own perspective and their own experience and that is why use ambiguity in my work. I enjoying using contrast with my materials and my concepts and tend to find it within other peoples work. I enjoy creating an environment that has a sense of uneasiness grounded in familiarity.

I have been inspired by many artist’s but the two main Artists who come to mind would be Christian Boltanski and Brice Marden. The work of Boltanski inspires me where he started creating 3D art based on himself and his childhood. He has progressed into one of the leading artist’s in France, who faces the immortality in our world and offers the viewers a need to investigate his work to understand its origins. This in-turn educated them about the fragility of human existence. Brice Marden’s work gives me a sense of freedom. His linear paintings are beautiful and mesmerising. I admire his use of tones and how his paintings appear to have a formal sculptural look about them. I also find myself drawing loosely like him, in an attempt to clear my mind and to regain my focus in a very autonomous way. I would like to learn more about these artists and what had inspired them with their work.

In the future I hope to focus more on my interest in the human mind represented through form. Also I want to work more with repetitive patterns and the concepts of deconstruction and deteritation and explore and expand my use of materials.