Illustrator & Graphic Designer
I produced a mood board on pintrest to gather visual inspiration for the brief; the artists that particularly inspired me were: Debbie Smyth, Simone Ridyard, Nanami Cowdroy and Maija Louekari.
File presented in folder – Artist Research
Liverpool Trip 18.10.18
My trip to liverpool was crucial in locating in depth primary artist research, while I was there I visited the Bluecoat, Castle Fine art and Walker Art Gallery noting artists and drawing interpretations of exhibiting works. I attended the Bluecoat gallery to retrieve primary research from the exhibitions: Time moves quickly, land sand strand and the 4th floor exhibition by Ottoknapp in particular while exploring additional work for further visual inspiration.
Exhibiting: Land Sand Strand by Suki Seokyeong Kang
I visited Kang’s exhbiting works to draw inspiration for my live brief with Northenden. I felt the builds, form and conceptual structures within this installation explore place and similar concepts I am exploring in my work.
Ryan Gander: Time Moves Quckily
It was important to me to see this exhibition for my contextual studies, this is because Gander’s major project responds important concepts centred around artistic activity and self direced play that I feel I can draw from for my creative workshop.
Silke Ottoknapp
I wanted to see this exhibition as it displays multiple interesting and relevant aspects to my work, I am intrigued by the mediums, scale and figures. I feel the visuals and story of the panels can inspire both my contextual studies and live brief as they both draw on identity.
Castle Fine Art
Featuring – Bob Dylan
I was pleased to see Dylans work at castle fine art, I intend on adopting similar qualities in the approach of my live brief: exploring place through imagination and character this can be done through colour, lines and perspective.
Billy Connelly
I felt inspired by Connolly’s work, I feel we can almost gain an insight into his mind through his simplistic yet highly detailed drawings. I feel Connollys work can provide me with inspiration around my contextual studies and automatism.
Scarlett Raven
I am inspired by Raven’s landscape painting to replicate similar painting styles and approaches in order to develop samples and work corresponding with my live brief and current projects; I will combine similar processes to imagery centred around northendens urban and rural lanscape.
^ Above is a link to the file presented in my contextual studies folder.
After producing up to 15 designs over all, I was able to evolve and develop my design and produce two new finalised pieces for my client. I had previously created a range of ideas to ensure my client had lots of option and was able to interact with my practice as it went, however the designs needed to be fuller around the lower leg/ankle as it will be covering up a scar, I will edit my designs and continue developing the final designs.
Final Design One
Scanned from a Xerox Multifunction PrinterScanned from a Xerox Multifunction Printer(1)
Final Design Two
Sigmund Freud and Surrealism
Freuds philosophy and th
eories are important to my research as his work with the unconscious mind established the field of psychoanalysis. Sigmund Freud believed that the mind is always active whether conscious or unconcious – indicating abstract understanding of our psyche and exploring repressed memories and experiences buried by time. Freud believed, the best method of accessing these are through dreams. I am interested in Freuds belief that dreams provide access to these buried memories and self awareness as dreams are where your unconscious and conscious mind interact.
The Freudian concept of the dream was very powerful on the surrealists, influencing French poet Andre Breton to publish the Manifesto of Surrealism. For surrealists, the use of dreams was to unleash artistic freedom while exploring personal pyschological issues through the unconscious mind’s creativity. I am inspired by this movement, I feel using dreams as a world of imagination for the stage of mental battle highlights the unconscious minds role within ones identity.
Automastism
While exploring surrealism and Freudian philosophy, I came across the concept of Automatism. Freud used free association and automatic drawing/writing to explore the unconscious mind of his patients, this process was also used by surrealists to futher the principles of their work, it was said in Breton’s surrealist Manifesto ‘Pure psychic automatism, the dictation of thought in the absence of all control exercised by reason and outside all moral or aesthetic concerns’ – I feel this statement resonates well with Jean Dubuffet’s Art Brut as both movements exercise untraditional principles and sought to explore mental states.
Andre Breton was one of the earliest examples of automatism, particularly written works – aiming to write as rapidly as could be without consciously thinking or guiding the hand- I intend on practicing this process through drawing and writing, aiming to provide my development with first hand research.
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