Drawing Presentation with Notes

I chose this drawing because it caught my attention in the Gallery as soon as I saw it.

I recognised the image from the orbit tower from the 2012 Olympics, but was seeing it in a completely different way. 

The piece is about 1.5 x 2 m

It was 1 out of 60 other drawings to be shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing prize.

The artist was inspired to do draw orbit because it had a really interesting structure.

This piece is just one of a series of large-scale drawings portraying the progress of the London 2012 Olympic site in the east end.

To me, the most interesting aspect in this drawing is the over-use of line. I'm really interested on line in my own work - She uses line really well.

Explosion on line

The thought the artist put into it really shows– she wanted us to view its development and unique form from every angle and that works really strongly with her style of drawing as well. 

This drawing was a conclusion of many much smaller observational sketches of the structure that were done over the period of time when it was being built. Barnes would draw everything from different viewpoints over many months then head back to her studio and try and compress them into one huge piece.

Scale of the drawing compared to others in the Jerwood Space Gallery as part of the 2013 drawing prize.

 

I decided to make the presentation very visual, I used photos of the drawing I'd chosen and a two and half minute video of the artist talking about her work and how her was inspired to draw it.

 

The notes that I have included on this post are the notes which I had in front of me when giving this presentation.

 

I think that the audience preferred watching a video of the artist talking about her work rather than me talking about what I had found out about it. It makes a lot more sense to hear what the artist makes of their work, because no one knows as well as them what it is about.

 

Images of work from(accessed on 12th November 2013):

 

 http://www.jeanettebarnesart.com/OLYMPICS.html#8

 

    http://jerwoodvisualarts.org/jerwood-drawing-prize-2013

 

 

Visiting Artist Number 3

Ajay Kanwal - professer in India:

Sculpture that you can wear made of little tiles that he sews together by hand. each tile is about 1mm squared, they are made of clay and fired in a really hot kiln.

He is interested in the contrast between reality and illusion.

Most of his work is up to 40ft long that you can walk on, to much smaller piece that are on the wall. Most of the larger work is made up of smaller piece placed together.

Kanwal wants to study the viewer, he treats his art as a study so he learns from each piece and its concept.

He has done some pieces where he took apart household furniture from the floor and reassembled it flat on the wall - turning 3D objects into 2D artworks.

'Shadow out of frame'

'Illusion' - A box shelf with a sheet of glass in the middle, the same object placed the side of the glass so it looks like a reflection.

'Horizontal Drop' - A light bulb on the end of a tap, put on its side.

'Weight Weightless' (pictured above) - Floating weight in real water, they are ceramic and hollow.  

'It's My Turn' - A big lock on a small case. Humour - the lock is always being carried by the case, this is the opposite.

Tridip Sarma - MA Student in India:

Working with showing the positive and negative space, seeing the inside and the outside.

'Circus of life' - A huge wallet and a small monkey, meant to show how man is controlled by money - the monkey symbolises evolution.  

Sound Project

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3oyMujls90

Sound project - a mixture of what I feel are annoying sounds, trains, hammers, washing machines ect...
I have combined them into one truly annoying sound.

Nettie Wakefield Presentation

Group presentation of Nettie Wakefield, whose work I saw at the Jerwood Gallery in London at the end of October

By Louise Child, Ryan Thompson and Joanna Webster:

Magazine Interview: http://www.dashmagazine.net/813309/illustrator-of-the-week-nettie-wakefield

Journey Project Drawings

 Drawings of everyday objects:

30x30cm, Pencil, graphite stick and white acrylic on paper, Nov 2013

30x30cm, Pencil, graphite stick on paper, Nov 

30x30cm Pencil, graphite stick and white acrylic on paper 

Untitled, A5, pencil, charcoal and white acrylic paint, drawn from a photo.

A5 pencil, graphite stick and white acrylic, drawn from a photo.

Sponge Repeat

Sponge Repeat, 97x148cm, November 2013, acrylic paint on paper.

Under the surface - printing with acrylic paints with a cut up sponge - the shapes on the sponge where inspired by London photos and previous prints. the repeating style was inspired by Andy Warhol.

Journey Drawing Project Photos

Photographs of the everyday journey:

"You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you" - Andy Warhol

                                     

“A picture means I know where I was every minute. That's why I take pictures. It's a visual diary.” 

―Andy Warhol

Potato Repeat

Potato Repeat, 108.5x136.5cm, October 2013, acrylic paint on paper.

Another piece looking at 'under the surface'. Potato Printing! Duplicated pattern throughout this piece was again inspired by Andy Warhol. The 6 main colours of the colour wheel - red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple, plus a black and a white box. Each box has the opposite colour printed on it compared to the background its on. Grids 2 across by 3 up - making a total of 6 boxes have one box per colour, this is repeated throughout the piece. Each of the background colours are next to there contrasting colouring in the 2x3 grids. The warmer back colours have the circular potato print on them while the colder back colours have the line potato print on them.

Printmaking - inspired by London photos

A3 mono print of the London Eye

A3 mono print of a London underground train

experimenting with line - paper/masking tape that I have printed on/over that I've  rearranged to create something new, A3

                                                A3 mono print on china town at night

Notes on Exhibition planning and curating talk

Employability week - Tuesday 5^th November 2013:

The Thought of stuff: May 2010

Alison wilding, Johnathan Callan, Adam Gillam, Jack Strange, Wayne Lucas, Esmeralda Valencia.

Curated by Andy Price and Leila Galloway.

Had a graphic designer

Had a mailing list for private view – adverts in two major art magazine.

Press release – long writing piece.

Idea of exhibition started in 2007

2009: proposal for the show, only one artist out of the original three was actually in the show

Budget draft - £6000 - funding from DMU and RBS funded them but didn’t give them any money, they let them have the exhibition space.

Then did a more realistic budget.

Went over budget by £600 – paid for the all the work to be collected but not taken back afterwards

Insurance for the van and the gallery - where the work was being kept.

Cut the cost a bit by packing up the work themselves, for bigger shows or moving work abroad you would pay professionals.

£800 to pick up all the work

Programme:

5 year old did the title because it fitted better than what the designers had done.

Everyone’s CV had to be emailed to the curators.

Write a little on each artist for the programme, then send it to them to check they are ok with what you wrote.

Instead of having the photos of the artist’s work they had them take photos of their studio space.

Formally keep track of work – a receipt

Create a website www.mittencrab.org  - brought all the other websites so that no one else’s comes up on the search engines.

Gallery seminar

Paid a professional photographers £200 to take photos of the exhibition and the work.  

Army Men film

A little stop-motion video, inspired by Toy Story and my Slinkachu style photos. Around 130 photos all edited together in Premiere Pro, no sound -I don't think it needs it. I had the army men left over from the Slinkachu project I did and thought it would be fun to create my own Toy Story sequence in the form of a stop motion. My aim for this project was to give the idea that these ‘toys’ were in this big Hollywood blockbuster, that’s why I set them up in a war scene and I tried to use similar camera angles that I have seen in big films.

Visiting Artist Number 1

Stuart Cumberland

Notes:
A painter that graduated from London Royal College.

‘Carry on painting’ in 2006. Where he got 4 of the most inspirational artist of the 20^th century and put their heads on 4 of the ‘carry on’ cast.

In 2009 made about 70 paintings – could have 14 on the go at once in the studio.

2011 - Four circle paintings exhibition at The Approach: no depth, shallow, cheap, basic, primary.

Painting in the studio is, to the artist, an anti-social activity – something you can do on your own without talking to anyone else in the studio, but it can get lonely.

Used oil paints – loosely painted Ben-day dots on the background then four different coloured circles over them.

Suddenly stopped selling work over night –then had a breakdown.

He decided to let chance take over – not worry about where he is going, something will turn up.

Lived with friends for a while, moving around a lot, house-sitting. Lived in studio space for a while.

Applied for a residency in Rome – felt that painting was finished, said all he could say about painting.

Does he stay inside the studio in Rome like he has the last 10years in London or go outside and experience Rome. He goes outside because if he wanted to spend time in the studio then he could have stayed in London.

Had a water glass in his bag and cycled around Rome for 3 months, everytime he found a fountain he drank from it and took a photo of the fountain. The fountains ranged from 1600’s to present day ones.   

Inspired by Jasper Johns (after 1985) and Christopher Wool.

Skill and how long something took doesn’t affect the quality of the work.

Old paintings are beautiful but Picasso paints people the way they really are – real people showing the stuff that everyone does but never says.