Guest Lecture

Nikki from last year came in to give us a talk about placements and her life after uni. She is self imployed and has started selling manny designs including cushions. The advise given by her was to know your current affairs, use the environment and be yourself. (www.nicolarowlands.co.uk)

Guest Lecture

mandi goodier & libby scarlett from last year came in & gave a talk about their life being in third year and what we should expect from our final year. they showed some of their work and explained where some of their inspirations came from. one of the best advise they gave was to get out of the sketchbook and actually make things. 

Visit to the Walker Art Gallery

'Cow Mutations'

One image i was attracted to was Cow mutations by Tim Head. Generated by the image on a supermarket milk carton, it explores a synthetic imagery only tenuously connected to the 'natural' world', uncovering simulated textures and shapes in which, silently, anything can be changed into anything else. His paintings are all based on found things, enlarged and then projected onto canvas. He emphasizes the gap between our materialist 'packaged' society and the natural world on which it depends. 

Tate Liverpool Day Out

I went to Tate Liverpool to see 'Joyous Machines'. The exhibition saw Jean Tinguely's work and how it inspired Michael Landy's creations.

I liked the rough drawings Tinguely did in to understand his vision opposite to Landy's detailed drawings depicting the same mechanisms.

Rollerball

In a futuristic society where corporations rule, the violent game of Rollerball is used to control the population by demonstrating the failure of individuality. One player, Jonathan E., rises to the top, and fights for his personal freedom and threatens the corporate control. I really like the film shots and the sense of loosing or having control between the characters.

Johnny Hardstaff Lecture- Tuesday 6th October 

Our first guest lecturer of the year i was pleased to see some inspirational work from Johnny Hardstaff 'He loves to re-personalize commercial work and the process of selling products but hates corporate businesses'.

 His power point presentation really showed his skill in drawing and how you can make animation through individual drawings and then manny hours on photoshop moving each component one at a time. He told us for his first animation it took him around six months to finnish. Tedious, but when you have no experience of moving image these pieces of animation are amazing.

Johnny Hardstaff- "we all direct people in some form or way"

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

French Art Director of ELLE rendered MUTE by stroke - the amazing true story of Jean Dominique Bauby 

I really enjoyed this emotional film. The film work and lighting really portrays how this man feels being trapped in a body and not able to speak. The blurred lighting and film work of a man in a old diving suit surrounded by water was a good representation of how he feels. 

I love this map! Something so simple made into something stunning. 

Paper cut Paris map

famillesummerbelle.typepad.com/ fsblog/2009/04...

John Walsh day project at university. 

Went out around manchester to be an investigator. From the pictures i took we then were put into pairs to create something out of our combined work. This one day project made us think outside the box, and explore shapes, items, colours from our environment that can create something amazing. John Walsh's work really shows the personal approach but still commercial and can sell. 

conveys dream like clouds. Mia Pearlman has been busy, with multiple installations around the world. 

Hand cut paper cloud 

picocool.com/art/ hand-cut-paper-cloud-artwork/

Papaer-prime cuts

This is the big and small of paper cutting. Delicate cuts balance out 

a room full of cutting.Chris Natrop’s work

28tries.com/blog/2009/ 04/03/paper-prime-cuts/

I love the manipulation of paper and this really shows of the beauty that can be captured within the material. 

Y. Nishimura makes beautiful folded op-art.

http://www.gravestmor.com/wp/archives/2005/11/28/paper/

Making packaging is my new favorite thing to do. All in a days work!

The making of my mobiles- silence project (again on the path of light theme)

Long day at university but what a view!!

My silence project continued (creating books that fold out) 

creating paths of light and overlapping shapes. 

http://seenbooks.blogspot.com/
http://acejet170.typepad.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joekral/sets/72157594264351021/

I like this series (image above) by Lisa Rienermann, photographs of sky-letters formed between buildings.

http://poppytalk.blogspot.com/2007_07_01_archive.html#at

For my silence project i am looking at the path of 

light creating different shapes and shadows. 

  Nice hand made books.

I came across some painted round pebbles which are really nice and unusual. The hand drawn type and colours make them attractive to hold and look at. 

FINAL YEAR OF UNIVERSITY 

The lovely new studio i will be working in for the rest of this year.