Rachel whiteread - for becky

i remember seen a piece of rachel whitereads in the Tate britain.. (i think im 98% sure i snuck in somehow..)

and she had a cabinet of all these different objects she had collected, hope it helps in a sense of layout?

Exhibition Ideas

For my final exhibition piece I am looking to pickle or preserve in some manor my dandelion seed heads, in miscellaneously shaped glass jars hanging from the ceiling if that is possible.

I am unsure of amount as I cant picture quite how many I would need to work in the space but probable 20 to 30? So really all I would need to exhibition is space to hang from that would take the weight of glass jars.

Exhibition Idea.

My idea for the exhibition is to have a small stand with my little mechanical music box and strips on it, and for the viewers to be able to play the music through it, as well as the recorded melodys which I have put together and hopefully onto an ipod which can be played continously throughout the exhibition. In the background I am thinking of enlarging some photographs I have taken and using them as a visual aspect.
I am not sure yet which photographs I will be using.

Free Standing-Jessie

I came across this article on the largest free standing artwork.

The shape seems to be very similar to the shape of your billboard sculptures.

Hope it's useful

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2180719/Britains-tallest-free-standing-artwork-Aspire-unveiled-in-Nottingham.html

Exhibition Ideas

16th may- for the minutes ive been trying to create spiral shaped out of the pieces of billboard varying in different sizes im still trying out different techniques ill update thing post abit more later on today, thought id add a post so you guys have an idea of what im doing, i want it to be free standing so hopefully it can go anywhere.. :) x


note 17th may -im juggling between the cylindrical swirls hanging or keeping them free standing i need to try it out.. update more tomorrow..

Floss' Exhibition

My aim is to make a hanging piece to a shape similar to the sketches below. It doesn't need to be anywhere specific  but needs to hang about 5ft 10 high from the ground (ish) I may use a light source but it depends how I feel about it when it's up. 

Final Ideas for the Exhibition

In addition to Martina's post on what she wishes to show for the exhibition, I hope to display three long banners influenced by the oil painting experiment I undertook. These banners will be 240cm in length as I want them to brush off the floor and approximately 40cm wide. I will need to have a space where I can hang the banners, preferably off one of the pipes. I also want to see what the banners will look like with the addition of generated air as I feel it would portray the whimsical feel of the atmosphere I was exploring throughout the project.  

For Martina

I just came across this and it reminded me a bit of your domino's,


http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/s/1505384_8000-little-clay-men-join-manchester-commuters-on-the-way-to-work-for-future-everything-festival

You may have already seen it out and about around Manchester today,,

Exhibition Idea

As the exhibition is getting nearer and nearer I think it is important to have a clear vision of what I wish to achieve.

With the film I have created this will be put on the main projector and run continuously along with other students that have used film in their work.

Along with this I wish to corner off a section of Hotspur with tape which is available for people to interact with the dominoes, seeing how they make routes and testing their patience! I will need a flat floor for this and approx. 2m by 2m and with the words, 'DOMINO FALL IN PROGRESS PLEASE TREAD CAREFULLY' put on to a sign.

Important Dates

In the morning meeting today we got told the important dates for the end weeks of Unit X.

• Friday 18th: Blog deadline

• Monday 21st: Clear the space at Hotspur, label clearly if you wish to leave work there for the exhibition so that it does not get thrown out.

• Wednesday 23rd (6-10pm): Launch Party - Hotspur (we will not have our work up then it is just a party to start the exhibitions happening with unit X.

• Thursday 24th: Put up work in Hotspur.

• Friday 25th: Morning final touches to work, early evening Private View.

• Thursday 31st: All work to be taken down.

Feedback is to be confirmed at a later date. 

Billboard Art for Jessie

Jessie, I am not too sure what you are doing with your project but this site is very interesting and didn't know if it would be relevant to you because of you using that old billboard.

http://artmovesfestival.org/

Enjoy

Lighting

I was just wondering who was thinking about using lighting in their final piece?
X

The Boyle Family

Looking in to the Boyle family and how they create textures in their 'world Series' exhibition, i really like how the 'create' these different textures themselves, and the attention to detail is amazing aswell.

Christoph Niemann-for Martina

Martina, I'm not entirely sure if you're familiar with the work of Christoph Niemann. I came across him and his humorous illustrations whilst browsing on The New York Times website and thought of you immediately. The 'Omelet' caption, I felt, captures the 'journey' of the making of the food and emphasises how along a 'journey' nothing is never straight forward, simple nor the same every time. Hope you find it interesting!

Research-for Becks

I also found this website which I think might help in your research Becks! There's some very interesting concepts and ideas.

http://inhabitat.com/

Richard Soloman-for Becks

Beck's, I came across the work of Richard Soloman. His work mainly consists of the organic and makes some amazing sculptures as well as flat-pressed pieces.This particular piece, I thought would interest you!  Here Soloman strives to capture the short-lived moments of a blooming bud and encapsulate seed heads in glass balls.

William Anastasi

Martina,, I was just looking into the artist we were talking about earlier,

William Anastasi

and how he goes about creating some of his blind drawings,

I found quite a good video where he is talking about his work

http://newarttv.com/William+Anastasi%3A+Drawing+Blind

I was actually wrong about the pocket drawings, i thought they were created through chance, allowing the movement of walking to create the drawing. 

But

In fact it is the case of him watching silent films, with a folded piece of paper and pencil in his pocket enabling him to create a blind response to the film.

(perhaps I was a little off the mark)

But

They still make for intriguing, beautiful marks.

As for the subway drawings,,

that is indeed a record of the journey,,

Hope its helpful,,,

Wine stain napkins - For michelle :)

i kinda just stumbled across it while wondering the internet :) their like coaster/napkins thingys.

David Adjaye

I wanted to start looking into the textures and marks manchester creates, and while research i found the work of David Adjaye, who's work shows a large map combining all the cities in europe looking into the lines and textures create by these different maps...

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/wow/0adjadetail.jpg&imgrefurl=http://we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2008/08/the-manifesta-exhibition-locat.php&usg=__w0x63LAWvfHESveNwrlxKmDJm0E=&h=319&w=425&sz=78&hl=en&start=10&zoom=1&tbnid=rdI1VTz6gtQnqM:&tbnh=95&tbnw=126&ei=sE-UT8LuDYm90QWG5PXyAQ&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dtextures%2Bin%2Bcities%2Bart%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26gbv%3D2%26tbm%3Disch&um=1&itbs=1

Check it out.. 

Exhibition Preparation Ideas 2

Michelle, I like the idea of a group name for the exhibition. 'Found' sounds good as I suppose it could be relevant to all of our projects as we have all found something within Manchester to respond to.


Lighting- I will definitely be using lighting in my work> Lighting brings out the best in final pieces so I think we should take advantage of that.

Presentation- perhaps we could (once everyone has an idea of final piece) arrange our pieces as if they all fit together in some way, or lead into each other. Make it our own environment of some description. Just a few ideas. We could make it look really fantastic. But I don't think we should worry yet because things won't come together til the last minute like they always do. Still got  5 weeks? 4? left and things will change a lot in that time.