Deadline approaches.....

Students who are entering individual sculptures to the exhibition must have work ready to be photographed on Monday 25th October. This will take place in the Photography Studio NW008 at 10am. Otherwise, students will be responsible for meeting the Friday 29th deadline themselves.

It Will Continue to Grow Except at that Point

Check ou the latest edition of Artforum (it's in the library now) for artist Giuseppe Penone's works with the forest....click on the headline above for a link.

Final Proposal

The students have selected this idea for the final group proposal. You must now take this design forward to the construction phase- what is already decided is the 'sphere' part, but how can the rest of the design be fabricated/ modified/ developed in terms of materials and installation? Post your ideas here as soon as possible! Also, titles need to be proposed and decided upon, so add these to your posts as well.

Installation Ideas

Each student should work on a large scale A1 drawing as a proposal for how the final sculpture may look/ how it could be installed. We will be proposing that as part of the exhibition, a selection of these drawings will form a backdrop to the piece itself. Above is a rough Photoshopped idea of how it may look..............

Working Drawings

Now that the collaborative work is taking shape, it is important for each student to make some 'working drawings' that investigate possibilities for the over-all piece. Only one can be used for the final piece, but each of you should be using drawing now as a way of giving shape to your ideas. Above is a very basic idea of support and base for the sculpture- how else might this be fabricated?

In Response to Klimt.....

There are a lot of great visuals coming up now in terms of contextual research, try translating some of this into drawing as well....draw, draw again, good idea, bad idea, then try it out in 3-D....

Birch Forest

I’m a major fan of Gustav Klimt and ‘Tress from Wood’ immediately reminded me of the ‘Birch Forest’ series and a few others such as The Apple Tree, The Park, Bauerngarten mit Kruzifix and so on.

The textures he creates merges the different aspects of the painting into one greater whole which captures the observer who picks through the painting trying to absorb each little bit. I feel like I’m trying to find hidden images and get caught up in the small details so that I have to concentrate to understand the bigger picture as per the idiom “can’t see the wood from the trees” which will form the basis of my research. I’m hoping to explore hidden meanings, blindness and fear of the unknown and oneself.

I also love the linear nature of the Birch Forest paintings, the trees stand like soldiers in the forest hidden within the myriad of surrounding detail. I’d like to feed something like this into my research as well – to find ‘the trees from the wood’ i.e. individuality as opposed to mass conformity.