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Wednesday, 6 May 2015

Whitworth

I visited the Whitworth art gallery with university.

The blog keeps crashing I can't write more than a few lines.

To explain why I have resubmitted and edited this post, As you can see from my first line while I was writing this post blogger kept crashing I had plenty of time to write the post if it had been under normal circumstances but due to a technical error outside of my control I could not write this on the 6th of may. If you need a witness to my technical difficulties Connor from Motion design saw everything and saw my distress. Also I noticed on the due date on moodle it said the 8th at 4:05 I have screenshots to prove this.

The 3 exhibits are fantastic and all feature a dominate motif of destruction and how it brings about awareness. I think all of the touch up on important social issues Feminism, war, and loss. You may even say the work conveys a loss of innocence. It felt like I was really experiencing the destruction depicted in these pieces as I walked through the places they were displayed. They all made me think about the world around me and the fragility of it. The work itself did not inspire any of my practical work or inform my keywords essay even though Sarah Lucas had many ideas that I could have translated into my essay.

Out side these main three exhibits I saw a lot of work that I could few from a feminist perceptive and many had connotations linking to war. two piece which stood out to me were the dress made from camo and the room with the waste material from remembrance day poppies, Both have clear links with war and the camo dress felt like it was trying to push the boundaries of what is and isn't feminine or making a statement that femininity is perceived and is a social construct rather than rooted in nature.

Monday, 27 April 2015

Difficulty getting interviews

I have lost count of the amount of artists I have tried to contact just to name a few who have not replied Erik Jones, Glenn Arthur and Camilla D'errico who said she would answer my questions and never got back then I contacted an artist I have bought artwork form before called Destiny Blue and this is what I got back.

Any responses other than answering my questions was pointing me towards a previously done Q&A or an FAQ.

Also a lot of artists I wanted to contact didn't have a contact email that I could find and on there facebook pages had taken off the option to inbox them. I am starting to feel very apprehensive about if I will get my final interview and if they interviews I have done will be seen as being suitable. I have tried my best in interview people who's work inspires me but they seem quite hard to get a hold of.

Monday, 12 January 2015

New year, new project

For our next unit we are entering competitions I have chosen to enter Pan Macmillan's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. The goal is to create a book cover and at least 2 illustrated pages.

I have started to gather some inspiration on pinterest www.pinterest.com/raeldanger/alice-in-wonderland

Monday, 24 November 2014

Salford zine library

On the 12th of November I went to the Salford Zine Library in the basement of the Nexus Art Cafe in Manchester. The first thing I felt when I walked in was that I was an outsider, I felt really awkward walking in just to look at the zines.

After wondering around and not being able to find where the zine library was I asked the guy at the counter. The salford zine library was through a door I assumed was staff only.

When I got into the room there were shelves and shelves of zines stacked haphazardly on top of one another.

Not sure why this picture is sideways but this was a very small zine, probably one of the smallest in the library. The zine is called disintegration.

I really loved the crudeness of this zine.

There was also some more lining the walls on small shelves.

This one was mostly in what in spanish (I think) and I really like how hand made this one looked.

From what I remember this one was screen printed and I really liked the limited colour palette.

I like how this one has been drawn, again rather crude.

Another crude one.

This one seemed to be portraiture based.

I really liked the idea behind this one but not so much the execution, this zine was made from sand paper and held together with clips. I didn't like how the pictures were just stuck on and just seemed to be floating in space.