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?

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,,

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!

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,,,

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.. 

Salt

Michelle,

Artwork Using Salt From Motoi Yamamoto

http://www.designswan.com/archives/artwork-using-salt-from-motoi-yamamoto.html

These pieces in particular made me think of your project.   The salt in what looks like water marks. I haven't read up on the meanings as such but just the aesthetics could have a link with your work.

Ann Goddard

"Ann Goddard makes mixed media assemblages, constructed wall pieces and installations comprising multiple units. Her work explores the concept of boundaries and human impact on the landscape."

Bec's when I saw this artist I thought of your work mixing the structural forms of a building with nature. Just as though nature is taking over again. The way she manipulates the mixed medias too look as though they are growing from a man made object is very convincing.

For more...

Ann Goddard

Berndnaut Smilde

Floss, I came across this amazing pieces of work by Dutch artist Berndnaut Smilde. He creates clouds in a room, playing on the idea of a transitional sculpture. The clouds only last a few moments and can only be experienced through documentation and photography which I thought was really fascinating.

Seung Hoon Park

This collage is by Korean photographer Seung Hoon Park. He takes hundreds of photos of the same location using 16mm film and a huge tripod camera then weaves them together creating contemporary mosaics of tiny film strips. I thought it might be of some interest to you Martina! 

Damien Hirst

Damien Hirst - The First Look

A documentary worth seeing.

Damien Hirst is an artist I have never quite fully understood, yet I never understood through fear. Fear of the ideas he presented. However, through years of maturing and now watching the channel 4 documentary “The First Look,” I understood that the man known as 'Mr Death’ is just a man with bursting mad, creative ideas and thriving on them. His jokey, fun character comes through in his art work, showing off his personality and what he believes is something worth looking at and debating over.

Hirst’s work is very controversial, making work you cannot possibly ignore. For example his piece ‘A Thousand Years,’ made up of a box hatching maggots into flies, a rooting cows head and an insect killer. A gruesome life cycle. Also, his most famous work ‘The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living,’ the shark preserved in a tank of formaldehyde. He takes objects out of their normal habitats and puts it into artistic environments changing the way we see them, the way he sees it and especially for this piece is ‘facing our fears’.

A year after this work, Hirst still made a shocking piece, but I believe shocking in beauty. ‘In and Out of Love,’ is based in two rooms, one, a room of dead butterflies fixed onto canvas and in the other, the butterflies are born. It is simply a butterfly house in an art gallery, but what does this mean? How does it make sense? This piece, as Hirst states, give people hope, when we look at a dead butterfly they still look alive, all their beauty fully in tack.

What I took from this documentary was creativity, to be able to think outside the tradition beliefs of art;

“Confront things you can’t avoid.” (Damien Hirst)

Summing up Damien Hirst’s work and ideas, 

“He’s the naughty child making us confront our deepest fears,” Noel Fielding.

The Documentary.