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Final Major Project Evaluation Foundation Diploma In Art and Design Grace Bloomer Pathway: Photography and Illustration To be able to submit a personal Statement Of Intent To understand the importance of contextual references To know how to solve problems by applying knowledge and experience To be able to prevent a Final Project Final Major Project Evaluation: 'Life Cycle' Throughout the course I've always gone back the words 'sequence, multiple and communication', I found a passion in the Human and Animal anatomy after previously exploring them in Paris In The Park, I wanted to expand my ideas further in Final Major Project. After exploring my ideas further I realised that they werent going as far as I expected which made the beginning of the project hard and difficult for ideas, however I decided the widen my knowledge on Natural Forms, mostly shells. To gather more research and understanding of natural froms, I became inspired by a netflix series called 'Our Planet' to explore environmental issues that we face and the problems that happen in the ocean, this is why I chose to do natural forms. I felt obliged to do something to raise awareness of the major changes the planet faces. I began by completing lots of research into shells, the ocean and plastic and its part that it plays in the marine life. This research continued into reading several news articles, gathering facts about the amount of plastic put in the ocean. These facts and figures that saw shocked me and made me more determined to project my view on the situation, also they equipped me with further facts about plastic pollution and ocean conservation, but also provided me with beautiful imagery of marine life and its environment. During my research I found that the vibrancy of the plastic matched the bright inviting colours of the marine life. I continued to experiment with ways I could present my work through the result I found. I researched an artist such as Damien Hirst and 'The Day Of The Dead' as they use bright, vibrant and fluorscent colours, Damien Hirst explores the ways in which he can express life and death through vibrant colours and diamonds his 'For the Love God' skull piece inspired me to make my project beautiful but provide a big statement. I also researched Roger Ackling as he makes sculptures from man-made materials, he also reuses materials and natural lighting to crave lines on the wood he collects. Another artist that played a big part in my research were Tim Noble and Sue Webster, they created sculptors from reuse materials which made shadows of people. The use of reuse used material was going to be one of the main focuses in my exhibition, the use of plastic is going to be present in my sculptors as 'Environment' is going to be the main focus. I spent the first half the project experimenting with imagery, materials adn techniques often referring back to previous stges of the course and retry old experiments and change them to relate to my project. I really enjoyed doing the experiments as I found new ways to work for example using plaster, I'd never used that before and its made want to expand more into sculpture, I took part in several group critiques as well as a class critiques which helped me generate more ideas and made me re-evaluate my techniques. They also proivde me many new experiments which didn't turn out as successful, to say to the brief I began having discussion with students who worked different to me to gain a variety of feedback and advice. I hadn't had much experince with a daily journal, but it became like a diary to me as it was somewhere I could document to my work and my thoughts on whether I was successfull on my goals. I took a trip away to Scarborough to see the ocean to condition it was in, as I the shells piled up on the beach I began to realise that I want my sculptures to look like that, the bright colours were used to ephasied the bright colours of the marnie life. The shells I created were made from plaster and a few made from bubblewrap to give it texture. Setting up and preparing for my exhibtion was one of the most time consuming things, as I had to paint the walls and floor black several times, I spent time before experimenting with the composition of my shells which I placed in the middle of the floor. I wanted the main attraction for the audience to be the brightly coloured shells, as well as the photographs I took of them outside. Overall, I am very happy with the result of my exhibition. I feel like I have been able to use found materials to create a piece that raises the awareness of plastic pollution in our oceans and the effect it has, I also believe that I was able to express to beauty of the marine life along with the ugliness of the plastic thats ruining the planet and that the piece is making a big statement. To conclude, I feel very lucky that I had the oppurtunity to be a part of this course, and I feel like I have grown as an artist and a person. I have found different ways to work in my practice with most help I've had in my life, I can honestly say this year has been the best year of my education by far. Extended Bibliography https://www.artworksforchange.org/portfolio/tim-noble-and-sue-webster/ https://recyclenation.com/2015/01/tim-noble-sue-webster-shedding-light-grungy-garbage/ http://www.damienhirst.com/ https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/damien-hirst https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/christian-boltanski-2305 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Attenborough Paris- Catacombs Films Coco Our Planet Blue Planet https://www.jackson-pollock.org/ Books- 1000 Degrees Deyrolle Radio Times Independent Jack Hulme- A photographic memory Visits The Hepworth Yorkshire Sculpture Park Leeds Art Gallery Brockerdale Woods https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olek_(artist) http://www.bluebowerbird.co.uk/info.htm http://www.michelle-reader.co.uk/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/annette-messager-2670 https://www.leosewell.net/ https://www.textileartist.org/10-contemporary-embroidery-artists

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