Author: UOW Student

I am impressed by the size and scale of a collage I always think it’s collage is within a a 4 or 2 dimensional screen seeing them on the internet but this is great it looks like it’s on a water tower or some sort of large billboard.

Yesterday I started working on some of the shoe boxes I definitely think that if I’m following the same scheme as last year I need to do some bass work so this is a abstract behind the buttons I stop this work halfway because I hate it it it felt very child Play school like. I will have another go at it today hopefully make something more succinctly what I want at the moment I’m not liking it. Apart from the colour…

Working with postage material I started looking at brown paper and love some of the shapes and you too using household objects I have continued along this line and I wanted to add some colour to see what sort of results I could get some of the materials I have used a bubble wrap paper cardboard styrofoam now I’m trying to decide what to do with them.

I also use some found objects and I’ve made them into some colourful art which I think I might use as single items an assemblage rather than collage in them again I’m not sure still thinking.

While researching artists, I was drawn to Bailey’s colour, in particular his work “Sacred Cosmos”, I like the use of space and found objects, and space.

On looking at his work further I have found that he uses a thread in alot of his work being the portrait as the central focus, heritage, family.

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https://www.mutualart.com/Artist/Radcliffe-Bailey/5994C24EF25B7259

Radcliffe Bailey, Vessel

CAVA 301

Visual Research assignment

For Cava 301, On contemplation and change for Cava 310’s artwork proposal, I take you to an artwork I completed in 2019,see image.

 This work responded to how I was feeling in my current surroundings, the work is comprised of a handmade paper doll inside a shoebox. 

I plan to extend on this theme and make assemblages, I will create six to eight assemblages that relate to my new every day and trending sayings or thoughts. 

Two things will link the boxes together; one is that they will all have a body inside, and two, they will all be framed with a found or current household object.

Each sculpture will be made out of current objects that are surrounding me at the moment, for example, garbage, plastics, recycling, postage boxes, toilet rolls, craft, broken crockery, found objects like tennis balls, balloons, broken tiles, electrical tape, botanical such as flowers and seeds. 

The works would be divided into themes such as 

• craft
• toilet paper rolls
• material
• found objects colour
• recycling plastic
• recycling coffee pods
• recycling
• found botanical 
• found objects metal
• magazines/children’s books

I am in the process of gathering materials and objects that may work and relate to my overarching theme. The thread of the bodies is because the works are all from my point of view, and I will try to emanant (like my 2019’s work), the feeling of not fitting in.  

Each work will be made with a single subjected material, but they will relay to COV19. 

For example:

Botanical-“you can go for a walk”

Toilet Rolls- “shortage”

Plastic balloons and balls-“flatten the curve”

Material- “huge shift”

Craft- “get creative”

Postage- “stay at home”

Recycling- “rations”

Collage- “stay 1-5mtrs apart”

Plastic rubbish – “suffocating”

The sizes of my work will vary to match the materials that I am exposed to, eg Shoe boxes, postage boxes and recycling. 

My artist influences, art a still a work in progress, however, assemblage work from Robert Rauschenberg, Deborah Kelly and Rosalie Gascoigne have very influential works that I like for several reasons such as their use of colour, compositions, and use of mixed mediums. 

Robert Rauschenberg

The Museum of Modern Art, New York Fractional and promised gift of Agnes Gund in honor of Richard E. Oldenburg

Deborah Kelly 

Rosalie Gascoigne

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References

Kelly Deborah, 2014, “Venus variations #2”, Art gallery of NSW, viewed 19 April 2020, https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/329.2016/.

Rauschenberg Robert, 1954-1956, “Rhyme 1956”, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, viewed 19 April 2020, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Rauschenberg>.

Gascoigne Rosalie, 1987,  “Tiger Tiger”, Museum of Contemporary Art, viewed 19 April 2020, https://www.mca.com.au/artists-works/artists/rosalie-gascoigne/.

As Friday week 4 is a public holiday, the activity for week 4 is asynchronous, meaning you can complete this at your own pace. Provide a 150 word update about your project (it can be in list or point form), and respond to 2 other students projects. You will receive short informal feedback from your group lecturer prior to submitting your proposal. 

Project update:

So far, I have established that I will be making sculptures and incorporating them into assemblages. 

These will correspond to the current climate, and they will also have a constant thread of body and space throughout all of them. I am thinking about a work I produced last year that related to confinement and not fitting in; it was a paper doll I baked and placed in a box too big for the work. I feel the same thing is at play in my current accommodation, and that quarantine logistical shed light on not feeling like I fit in anywhere.

So I intend to repeat the process of a body in a vessel, e.g. show box, shoe case, washing powder box, take away container with different materials that are relatable at the moment, e.g.:

-toilet paper/toilet rolls

-long-life milk/aluminium cans, rationed food

-flowers

-found objects, such as coloured litter

-postal packaging

-craft

-collage

My artist research will be focusing on quirky, colour, sculptural, mixed media and collage works that assemble a subject in 3D forms.

Student 1 ()Response on Moodle

Student 2 ()Response on Moodle

Finally it feels like things are coming together or my ideas are aligning into the correct subjects For 301 I have been collecting a lot of chunks of colour, whether plastic or material.

Some ideas are forming from trending comments such as flatten the curve, stay positive, get creative, stay safe,

I am steering toward a lot of single objects such as ready mades? toilet paper, canned food, but I don’t see the challenge in that. So with the body sculptures I put myself as a witness to what I am experiencing, EG evidence.

And it also has an element or underlying theme of body that I wanted to do originally because while all this goes on, there is still times of self loathing and self awareness to impacting people.

I will get some sketches underway and small experiments to see if the work is starting to flow after all of the proposals are out of the way. In the meantime here are some pictures of my objects I have been collecting.

CLASS EXERCISE/UPDATE

Student 1 Feedback

Student 2 Feedback

Due to the changes in environment, my concept has changed , I will know be doing assemblages with found objects and sculptures, the sculptures will be made out of materials that address the current state. Due to my accomodation I often feel like I dont fit, the photo in previous blog is from a work from last year. This is what I am goint to do however each will be made with different materials such as :

All of the boxed frames will be from anything that is possible to frame, such as postage boxes received during confinement, take away containers, soap powder containers and locatable items that surround me.

Within the boxes the connection to all of them will be the uniformly the same with the central figure as a body that does not fit. This is something still in decison making mode, I am definitly collecting for the assemblages.

Suggested materials are what I am currently exposed to in the forced isolation settings, however my work takes me outdoors so I will be collecting found objects also.

Artist Influences such as Gerhard Richter would select images from a ranges of sources such as encyclopedia, magazines and newspapers, I am going to be using , golden books, national geographic an newspaper clippings.

Another Artist worth mentioning that influenced the idea is Canadian artist Roy Arden, he was experimental