Developing Individual Practice

This Post shows how my Sculptures has developed and help me to understand my own practise as an artist. After my summer project i had a exhibition on during the canterbury festival which myself and fellow students curated and organised. So for this i knew i had to develop the pervious sculptures and think more professionally into how i was to display them. This is close to the final piece apart from for the exhibition they were mounted on a black background which gave them the perception of emerging from the wall.
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After the exhibition i decided to work further on these pieces. I choose to rehang them in my space from all different angles and found that during transit some of them had stated to untangle so i carried on with this idea of deterioration and started to pull and cut apart these little sculptures who in a way through there flesh tones and bending shape had to me become creatures. (image 2,3,4 and 5) This is when i then found out about Christian Boltanski and Annette Messanger with there concepts.

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After a while i decided to continue with this theme of deconstructing and decomposing but cutting these pieces to the point of being unrecognisable from their original design. almost to their original state. I cut away at them at first as if i was preforming an spine removal which i had intended to be able to re-sculpte with but i found these pieces to delicate. I decided i would use some wood i had kept from my daughters old cot and mount these pieces to them using hot glue as i liked the contrast of using synthetic glue with the natural materials of the metal and wood. i then to finish painted the wood in three colours i have taken from my original sculptures. (image 6 and 7)

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From this I carried on cutting the almost skeleton structure wire and stripping the covering flesh toned wool to be left with a clump of wool and selection of wire shapes. I then decided to put these different elements back together but in a contrasting way. What onced protected is now protecting. i made a canvas and drew a ruff outline of a sphere which i then followed in sewing on my pieces of wire (image 8 and 9) Now i am moving on with my next project to she who much more i can develop.

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