Self-initiated Brief: Week Three

 This week I continued to build on my body of drawing still using the chance dice and colours. I created varied scale collages in a variety of papers concentrating on colour and composition. I used a crimper to give the collages a changing texture, the lines created mimic that of a quilted surface. This is something I want to look into. The process of spending a few weeks on drawing has definitely been beneficial to me as I now have an abundance of ideas to develop.

My Own Collages

My Own collages

This week I have also been researching artists for inspiration and context. The Bauhaus art movement is an extremely influential movement that passes through many industries and contexts including; Art, Architecture, furniture and design overall. They use geometrics and have a contemporary feel which is something I want my work to have.

Bauhaus

Bauhaus

In terms of context I feel my work is aiming more at high end interiors; one off contemporary pieces. HAY is a high end design company for interiors from tables to kitchenware. This where I see my work fitting. The geometric forms also relate the my own work and that of the Bauhaus movement.

HAY 

Self-initiated Brief: Week Two

This week I continued with the idea of chance to create my colour pallet. I chose the book 'Print and pattern geometric' and simply flickered onto 9 separate pages at random and chose a colour, I then used gauche to paint the colours out. This was a simple but effective way of choosing a colour pallet as it was restricted to a page however I had the choice of every colour within the page.

Self-initiated Brief: Week two

I have been inspired by the idea of chance that comes with a dice. However when looking back at the Michael Kidner launch I have been inspired by the Mathematical processes and planning Kidner used within his work. 'The process comes first to the colour'

The concept behind this body of work is contrasting processes. The chance dice determines the geometric forms which I will use to create designs. The fact that the process is out of my control is something that is vital to the initial drawing process. However it is not all by chance, there is an underpinning factor of mathematics. Firstly with the dice; there is a set of outcomes for which the dice can be rolled. Secondly within my sketchbook I drew grids to put my designs on (Can be scaled up or down). Also the geometric shapes have a mathematical factor to them. The idea of regiment merging with possibility is something I find interesting and is the concept behind this brief. 

The process of the chance dice has been successful in creating the beginnings of a body of drawing however I feel it is too uniformed within the sketchbook and so I plan to create some bigger drawings using a variety of media including paint, papers, pro-markers, and a variety of pens. I also want to achieve a colour pallet. I am not yet sure what form this work will take in samples but I'm concentrating on experimenting with drawing for now.

Self-initiated Brief: Week one

This week I concentrated on my issue of decision making. I researched into how to become better at this and the different decisions making methods.

When researching I looked into ways of making decisions with no control for example flipping a coin. I came across a novel 'The dice man' written by George Cockcroft, He wrote this book based on his life and how he used a dice to make every decisions through his psychiatry degree.

The Idea of incorporating a dice somehow in my self-initiated brief is something I plan to look into. This would take the control of decision making out of my hands, and thus remove the process which should allow more time to create work instead of time battling with decisions.

In terms of shapes and forms which I plan to incorporate in this project I have been inspired by the geometric style of tattooing. This is a complete opposite to fluent nature of pleating in my previous brief and instead the geometric have Sharpe clean edges, this is something I want to explore.

Transition From Bradford to Self-initiated Brief

After taking time to contemplate the Bradford brief, and deciding that I no longer want to continue with it I have thought about why it wasn't a successful project for me. Bradford is a context led brief and I have learnt as an artist I don't work best in this way. I felt that it impacted my potential of work because it was too specific and I had preconceptions of a fashion material. I didn't experiment enough within the initial stages of drawing as I was too engaged in the final outcome.

I hold myself back in terms of decision making within my work. I am too conscious of the risks and consequences. This is something I want to challenge in my self-initiated brief as tackling this issue would not only help in terms of the next unit but also in my future professional career. For the live briefs I plan to choose more open ended briefs which don't have a fashion context.

For next week I plan to create some inspiration and possibly a concept for my self-initiated brief, there are a few ideas I have been thinking of in terms of this:

- Something that tackles my issue with decision making

- No specific context

- Influence on a body of drawing/ experimenting

- Sampling

One thing that jumped out during the crit was mt wide range of materials and how some of them were synthetics so one thing I know for my self initiated is that I want to use only natural fibers.

Michael Kidner Launch

After the Michael Kidner launch, I felt totally inspired by the enthusiasm that the kidner family had for his work but also for the prospect of what type of work the students could come up with.

The statement that totally grabbed my attention was; “Structure comes first to the colour.”

 I feel that the Kidner live brief could work well as it relates to my ongoing practice which is currently focussing on pleating and fabric manipulation.

Kidner’s “wave” collection really made me think about pleating and giving me the idea of creating a more three dimensional effect with the pleats. And the different context of the shift from fashion to gallery is something i find quite inspiring in terms of where my work fits and it audience

Kidner's work in the gallery

Michael kidner wave collection

For the next week I plan to experiment with different types of materials to see how they react to the pleats for example; Wool, Paper nylon. I want to see how the qualities for example the stiffness and weight of the material impact on the pleats and also to see how natural and synthetic materials react.