A Brand New Beginning...

24th February 2012

As it is the first week of lent, I have decided instead of giving something up and regretting it in 2 weeks’ time I will give myself a challenge of going to the library every night to do both my Blog and research. I believe this will inspire me more to do more work and give me a huge boost. I am excited to see how this affects my work and my attitude. Doing this is not the hardest challenge but it will be very fascinating. My research does need improving and this will help a lot. I intend on doing so muh work and putting 110% into it on my next project. I will let you know how I get on in

40 days…

Liverpool.

23rd February 2012

A collection of my Leaflets and Photographs.

The galleries I visited in Liverpool were Walker Art Gallery, The Tate, International Slavery Museum, and Liverpool World Gallery. I had a great day looking around the galleries and museums; it was great to see such a range of different things. In the Tate Liverpool, I saw the work of Gillian Wearing, Antony Gormley, Richard Long, Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, Philip Treacy and Jeff Koon’s. It was great to see such contemporary work; I do feel my work is very modern and unique however, I do not feel it is going in the direction I really want it to. The one piece that really caught my attention was the Richard Long piece; I loved the simplicity and scale. I have always loved work that has been hung and suspended from the ceiling; I will try, and do more work on a bigger scale being suspended from the ceiling more.  Richard Long uses very solid materials however make them look as if they are very light and elegant; I love the way he does this

I also visited the Walker Art Gallery, which was very different to my work and was a lot more traditional than what I normally do.  However, when I was walking around the gallery I noticed a very strange piece, which turned out to be a Banksy piece of work.  I really loved the contrast between old and new from both the work and where it was. What Banksy had cut off the front of a bust and placed some tiles, which looked like a face. I liked the contrast between the piece and it being next to some very traditional paintings, it looked some out of place, but it being so out of place it was more shocking.

In the International Slavery Museum, it had a campaign on from the Environmental Justice Foundation, showing people the real cost of cotton. It was interesting seeing where the cotton I may use comes from.  It had many videos playing which showed young children picking the cotton and the conditions in which they live in. It really makes you think about how where your materials come from.

I spent most my day in the Liverpool World Gallery which is not where I thought I would, I loved the huge selection of different things to see. Around the museum were different parts to look at such as the planetarium, aquarium, bughouse, Egyptian mummies and Anglo-Saxon treasures. I went to the planetarium and loved how calm and relaxed it made me feel and it reminded me of some drawings I did and made me want to do much more. The colours from the aquarium were very inspiring with the deep blues and black alongside the shocking bright colours of the fish.

My visit to Liverpool was very successful and has insipid me in ways that have shocked me, it has motivated me to do a lot more work next time and it has allowed me to see a lot more different things such as the Anglo-Saxon treasures and the Planetarium. I have loved visiting a new City and I will defiantly be returning to go to the Gallery I could not attend this time round.

Drawing Workshop.

21st February 2012

This was part of my drawing workshop, what I was asked to do was bring in a collection of objects such as sponges and wire, some sticks and other drawing media. What I brought was the sticks, wire, pastels and a huge roll of paper. We then were told to create our own drawing materials, I do like the idea of this and I did try to create and make my own drawing tool, but I could not really get that stuck into it. As making my own tools was not for chaos, and me I looked more in to my project, as my two opposites are ordered I tried to have a lot less control over what will happen so decided to throw the pastels and the white page, which created a great effect. The pastels began to get smaller and smaller and soon turned into dust, which was very interesting in its self. I photographed the whole process to show the different marks I was making, and how different one throw of the pastel can make to the white paper. The yellow and purple made the biggest impact as it looked more shock and bold. I really enjoyed doing my technique of throwing the pastel, as I had no control over what would happen and where it would go, it was both filthy and very fun.

My Sample of weave.

    18th February 2012

Doing weave has been a great experience, i have loved the many different designs you can do with and the range of different yarns you can choose from.  However as much as i have enjoyed weave i do feel this is not for me. Before weave, i did the hand processes workshop, which I loved as I could do large sculptural pieces and with weave it was very, one-dimensional and it takes a very long time to do and i like the idea of doing many different samples to inspire me. I did really enjoy this workshop and i am happy with every one of my samples. I think the colours i choose have been extremely successful as thy all work so well together. The green and purple have been very good with being so bold and the grey and white really calm the green and purple down and make it less in your face.

My brief

Brief
Beth Robinson

Sampling Project:  Ordered Opposites

The theme of my project is order and chaos, so far in my project I have explored the idea of layering the two opposites, I did this in a range of my samples, one example of my work is a chaotic mess on top of an ordered metal mesh, and the theme of opposites is very subtle. I would like to see where this layering can take me and see how I can incorporate colour into this. I have no colour palette, as I want my project to be very chaotic.

My weave development.

8th February 2012

My weave has gone so far in just one day. To start with my weave was starting to really bore me as there was really not that much to look at. However i found one of my little samples i found for my hand processes workshop and i decided to just add it and it turns out it was so successful and has now gave me a lot of inspiration for the rest of my weave. I love my weave with the beads as it really does look great and it goes so well with my opposites ordered and chaos, with having the beads scattered all around the weave in a chaotic way alongside the ordered lines in the weave, the two opposites look great together. I love how subtle the two opposites are as its not really shouting out to me.

Threading up.

2nd February 2012