Amazing pieces at the Tate...

Bed 1980 

Bread and parafin wax

unconfirmed: 280 x 2200 x 1680 mm

sculpture

Keith Edmier Beverly Edmier 1967 1998

Ron Mueck
Ghost 1998

Tate Liverpool| Current Exhibitions | DLA Piper Series: This is Sculpture

Spent the last couple of days in Liverpool and fell in love with a exhibition at the Tate gallery. It is an exhibition called the DLA Piper Series THIS IS SCULPTURE (curated by Michael Craig-Martin) and it included works by Dali, Bacon, Gormley, Mueck, Magritte, Warhol, Picasso, Klein, Mondrian and Tracy Emin. Totally fell in love with Sculpture so just thought id share..

Tate Liverpool| Current Exhibitions | DLA Piper Series: This is Sculpture

Experimenting with disappearing shadows...

The legacy....

A burning loss....

Yesterday all of the pieces fell into place and I was able to complete my work on my bamboo sculpture. With the help of Des (Technician) and my 2 camera people Pat and John I was able to pay my quiet tribute to the invisible and forgotten people in our society.  I thought long and hard about how, where and when this was going to happen and eventually settled on a quiet location in the grounds of the college just as it was starting to get dark.
Because this piece is based on a form of isolation, I chose not to have any witnesses (apart from those needed to fulfil a role in the production).  I also felt that students who were passing by without noticing how the structure disappeared added to the overall feeling of being invisible and overlooked.
I need to edit all 4 camera's footage (will definately need help from dad with this) and add a soundtrack in order for the piece to really mean something.  Overall I don't think the weather and the footage could have turned out any better so I am really looking forward to getting the full piece completed.
Thanks again to Pat, John and Des.

invisible human - Google Search

invisible human - Google Search

Love this...

I don't know who the artist is but I really like the image.

Total snow overload....

Is this really a sculpture? — Illusion 360 - The World's most amazing Art, Design, Technology and Video

Is this really a sculpture? — Illusion 360 - The World's most amazing Art, Design, Technology and Video

Richard Stipl

Richard Stipl

Brooklyn Museum: Ron Mueck

Brooklyn Museum: Ron Mueck

Beautifully filmed piece that works mainly because of soundtrack....

With Muzak for The Invisible People it was my intention to create a piece that put in contrasts two spaces of confinement: The classical space of the hospital/poor farm and the virtual space of the internet. Both spaces symbolize a type of invisibility of the subject. The physical sequestering of otherness(the poor, mad, undesirable) has become spectral under the fashionable guise of spectacle and amusement and so, in the video, the decaying physical space of the Hospital/farm becomes overrun by the voices of the specters of the virtual madhouse. Using search words such as "insane", "poor" as my search words I used the popular websites Youtube and Youporn to create a Muzak soundscape for the ghosts of the abandoned and NYC Farm Colony.

Muzak for The Invisible People

We See What Most Don't

Cabin Fever has gotten the better of me....

From 3d to 2d....

Like the way this piece looks really out of place without actually standing out

In the process of painting with ink.

Really like the way the photo sits in the centre of this piece.

Painted onto parchment, which gives a nice effect.  really need to do some more painting, feeling a bit rusty.

Pictoral updates...

The finished figure waiting for the burning..

Hollow wax figure, hiding in the folds of cloth.  Actually prefer this way then removed from the board.

More figures using different fabrics.

Which one has something to hide?

My work station.  (maybe I need a clean out)

Pages from journal

More journal entrys

Quick ink scratchings

1 min ink figures

My next woodblock

Overload.... system malfunction.....

I don't know about anybody else, but this week I'm really finding it hard to get any practical work done.  I seem to be running from place to place with barely a Min to spare in between.  I have also discovered that I am unable to be in 3 places at the one time which has come as a huge shock to me,  and this prioritizing!!! well I'l say no more on THAT subject.
I was really hoping to get some more printing done this week but alas I may just have to wait till next week and hope that I can make up the lost time..

Progress and experimentation....

my first attempt at mono print

unsuccessful woodblock..

love how these colours work together and how the image is so haphazard

Definetaly think I could work more with monoprint

part of my studio space

What is now being referred to as the xmas tree..

Spent most of the week thicking the centre to form shadow

Left over pieces from paper clay cutouts

Like this overlapping effect.. will definetaly try and work these leftovers into something...

I spoke to Pat and Des this week about burning my bamboo piece when its complete and they were both very helpful.  Although a safety report will have to be done out beforehand, they both seem confident that I will get the all clear.  Really excited now about creating this piece and watching it disappear.

Now the end is near....

This week I've been working on several different pieces.  The largest by far is a five foot bamboo figure which has become the bane of my life.  Besides having my hands and arms shredded for the past week, I am now in need of a pair of goggles!!  I have also been working with paper clay, learning how it is made (although i did cheat) and how I can store and fire it.  I'm hoping that the piece I made will be strong enough to last the firing process as it is extremely thin. It should be out in time for Mon so will update blog with details.

Playing with shadows

Going to be a Gormley inspired figure



The start of a 3d shadow



Porcelain paperclay template

The first of 18 pieces, ready to be fired.

More of the paperclay pieces in different sizes