Printmaking - Week 4

Having printed using cardboard last week, with the intention of continuing to work further on them, I then wasn't sure whether this was the right thing to do. Whilst thinking about it Sarah showed us examples of how effective it can be to ink up material/clothing to print, with really good results.



Sarah felt my prints didn't need any further work and I agreed with her, but she is planning to pin them up so we can step back and reassess them, something you don't really tend to do with printmaking so much.

We talked about how I always prefer the first layout on something when i'm letting chance decide 'where the chips fall' and if I try and recreate the moment, it is lost and gone forever. I'm going to try and research this within art/artists.



My layout for paper on card, I had initially thought I'd create a collograph with, but instead will take in thicker paper and just press it onto paper to give an embossed effect next week. But as it hadn't worked with the strips of ordinary paper, I instead created a rubbing.



Not the most effective, but as I am learning, that doesn't matter, 'just do it'!

Town Hall for Drawing & Electricus Exhibition - Week 3

Colchester based audio visual artist, Jamie Gledhill, had an exhibition in Gallery Three, ELECTRICUS.



"Entering the space sparks a slowly changing, developing soundtrack that responds to your presence. On the large screen visitors will see their outline surrounded by 'electrical' energy. The greater the action, the more intense effect".

It's basically a webcam with image programming, but the effect is quite dramatic ....



Mirrored by the same level of reaction from some, who instantly start moving or dancing to create the required effects.



It was incredibly clever, but for me it's attraction was more from a behavioural point of view, seeing how people interacted, rather than an artistic view point. Especially, as I didn't feel very comfortable in front of it and sadly to a certain extent, couldn't see the point of it, that's the beauty of art!

Video of student interaction.

Town Hall Drawing Project 'Territory & Home' - Week Zero

A handful of us, as predicted, met up at the Town Hall Galleries for Recreate project. Sarah introduced us to Lala (Angela Wright), a practicing Fine Artist, who spoke about Recreate and her background, including a powerpoint of her work. I was glad the lights were down, as I found it really moving. She talked of how she'd used art to help express her life, marriage break-up, disability etc. She is an incredibly brave woman and I don't think 'people' realise that artists are laying themselves bare when they produce work. To produce work fearlessly is probably the bravest thing you can ever do as a person.

I talk with Sarah about ideas, where to go with my work this semester and then with Lala, but I almost can't talk to her, I'm so moved by her bravery and that I want to be as brave as her!

We had a tour of the Town Hall and Corn Exchange buildings, seeing 'behind the scenes'. It was really exciting to do this, you could hear the sounds, see the sights and imagine all sorts of dramas and traumas involved around back stage crew and the performers in the changing rooms. A heel breaks, torn outfit, forgotten or wrong outfit, someone late held-up in traffic, a falling out, the flu, dodgy stomach, affairs. The excitement and adrenalin, then over for the night, all to start again the next day, magical.

We look as we view, ideas pop-up and start to evolve, where, what, how?

We are to look for a space to call our own and make work around it, these are some photos I took on the tour:






We linked our keys together and placed on the floor in reference to the previous location of the jail and court: