FINAL SUBMISSION FOLIO

Artist statement-

My current work is mostly inspired by my use of material and influence of certain visual elements like line, tone and colour. I often find myself drawn to a certain aesthetic or material that usually has great influence on my practical making. Meanwhile always producing artwork filled with contrasting colours, repetitive patterns or random patterns. Throughout my practice I have never purposefully tried to rationalise my reasoning for being drawn to these three elements. Therefore this is something I wish to take forward into my final year of my degree in hope of gaining a greater conceptual understanding of my creative process.

Throughout this specific module I have explored the physicallities of confusion using line, tone and colour. I have explored my creative making focusing on these three specific visual elements. Meanwhile, highlighting a repetitive occurrence of a subconscious relation to Chaos and Order using various materials and aesthetics to expose a feeling as a ‘thing’.

My final Calico piece is complete!

Ready to upload my final folio submission.

Playing with digital collage, rearranging the placement of the fabric pieces, expanding depth through tone and composition.

Digital Collage, exploring layering methods digitally, creating repetitive effects to play with the composition of the sculptures.

Images of the fabric pieces displayed together, hung on the washing rope and wrapped around my outside bannister!

Fabric samples I developed from my digital overlays! I used a mixture of found materials, felt, cotton, calico, velvet, silk, muslin and coloured plastic. I free machines into each fabric piece to connect the layers together. Using different coloured threads in each piece and displayed them in a naturistic but domestic environment - on the washing line. I have used pegs to display the fabric samples together hanging them from the rope. Whilst filling the background with vine leaves!

My biggest plaster experiment.. the earthly tones of blue and green compliment eachother pretty well. The corrosive pattern from the ink in the plaster sculpture relates to nature’s way of growing! If I were to develop these into some sort of final in the future I feel that displaying alongside nature is its rightful place.

Presenting my plaster experiments in a different environment. I enjoy the visual aesthetic from the contrasting structure of the linear wooden fence where I have placed the sculptures and the vines intertwining with the sculptures! Highlighting how we have no control of nature’s will, we have no indication of its path or its destination. Something I relate to the feeling of confusion - we feel emotions, sometimes we don’t no why, this leads to confusion and confusion leads to uncertainty.

A fragmented road to remembering..

Some instilational ideas playing around with development experiments. I was inspired to incorporate nature through my use of digital overlays! Again the contrasting use of lineal structure produced from the grass and the circular repetitive symmetrical circles impressed into the plaster pieces highlights chaos and order. Something about a busy image being able to balance itself out, I think maybe if the plaster pieces were coloured they would read completely different to a viewer.

WIP

developing aspects of my final piece, I plan to create some free machine explorations to adopt a mixture of material however using the visual aesthetic of line. I have used a mixture of block ink, acrylic and fabric pens. Freeing up with the use of colour to create an overwhelming visual impact to the viewer.

I ordered some pre coated Cyanotype paper.

Unfortunately after several attempts trying different time limits for Sun exposure these were unsuccessful. I have a feeling it’s an issue with the paper and believe there has only been one coating of the chemical meaning the acetate was not able to fully expose. However, I have the acetates prepared and can carry out this method again once I have my own chemicals out of the studio!

Inspired by Van Lint, again using naturist photos to highlight a calming effect whilst overlaying my artwork to mix chaos into the order..

Again if I had access to printing facilities I would have loved to develop these into some silkscreen prints! Something I can develop in a later module.

Louis Van Lint

Van Lint is an artist originated from Belgium. He produced a series of work bases no naturist forms. His first lyrical abstraction and showcased natural scenes through his work. Van Lint was strongly fascinated by the sea due to his frequent travels to the Belgian coast and Brittany. You notice the power of the black, strong brushstrokes and his utilization of colors as being the two main visual elements through these artworks! The second painting relates back to my use of ink when I created plaster landscapes- corrosive patters highlighting nature’s effect on objects.

Inspired from Hesse’s rope artwork, aye began to explore my collection of naturistic images. I overlayed these images with photos of my calico piece. If I had access to printing facilities I would have developed these into prints. However, I have edited two of the overlays into negatives to prep my acetate for the next time I have access to expose onto a screen!

Eva Hesse

Looking at these images I notice the naturistic form of the rope. The piece is hung from the ceiling from what looks like string, positioned in the corner of the room low to the ground leaving pieces of rope touching the ground. I relate it to a web like structure that is projected onto the wall behind the piece, emphasising a three-dimensional visual impact. The creator of this piece was named Eva Hesse, a German born American Sculptor known for her work in materials such as latex, fibreglass and plastic. Hesse died in 1970 however as an artist she arose the Post Minimal movement in 1960. This specific artwork was made with two pieces of rope which were dipped into liquid latex to harden the rope. Hesse created a naturistic form consisting of arching loops, intertwining with one other. This was an automotive piece in which she immersed herself in the making of it, letting the rope dictate her next move – allowing the piece to ‘complete itself’. The shadows in the background of this image highlight how the material doubles in scale due to the illusion created by the shadow projections. Hesse has been inspired by her use of material, I realte to her method of working. Fully emmerving herself in the making of the artwork- inviting the viewer to make their on person connection to the piece.

Jackson Pollock

Jackson Pollock is an American Artist who has an array of drip paintings! Consisting of line and contrasting colour. His painting are often automatic and his use of colour really depends on his feelings on that day. Pollock was known and respected for his deeply personal and totally uncompromising commitment to his art of painting. Due to his abstract art without any indication of what each painting means to him I feel that they invite the viewer to have their own personal experience with the art work itself! Like my work, I have been focusing on line, tone and colour to create confusion and uncertainty about the piece itself.

Development of my final piece.

Still working on it using colour and line as the main subject to portray the physicalities of confusion. I have been exploring the different compositions on the wall, using an overlapping technique to creat depth to the piece. Each fold in the material relates to the rippling effects confusion creates in our mind. Almost like the concept behind palimpsest, there is a trace behind each layer, there is a reason to every reaction and there is an end to every struggle!