My boyfriend came across this image on the internet and couldn’t believe how similar it is to my idea and what i’m working towards! It’s caption was ‘ice stalagmites in the basement of Greystone Park State Hospital’ and unfortunatly i can not find anything on this piece and who did took it/made it etc. I’ve searched around and can only find the same picture and caption with no details. Regardless it’s perfect to compare with my work, it has actually inspired me to leave the mess on the floor rather than my initial plan to clear the floor. I still want to place my work in a more grid like order though linking back to my love of artists like Kader Attia and the way they display their work.
I also came across this video of an artists work. It is again the use of text over the image that I enjoy. His work is brilliantly stunning as he creates sound installations. Absolutely fascinating and certainly someone I would like to look back at with a more relating project.
Unfortunatly I can’t find the artists who has created this stunning head. I adore the way you can see all the marks in the clay and how it’s been left with all that history. I don’t want to smooth my clay out either, I want it to show the finger prints and impressions that have been created while making it as I really feel it gives a personal impression on the figure. I also love the facial expression on the sculpture. The straight mouth makes it look lost and confused. This is defiantly something I want to try.
It is the shape and style of Morans ceramic work that caught my attention. I like how his sculptures have all the correct physical features but are out of proportion. It reminds me of childrens drawings and how alot of the body parts are unrealistic yet you can still tell what it is. I like the expression on the faces and how strongly that can change the appearance of a character and this is something I am going to take on board when making my sculptures. I have to remember that the childrens sculptures will have alot more personality in due to the way they craft the material.
It appeared very hard to find anything on Barde in english online, however I did stumble across this press release that explains his work in some detail. It is his presentation and installation that really influences me.
“With naked clay you can see the process - with glaze you will hide what is going on”
— Philippe Barde, it is this quote that caught my eye when flicking through a book on ceramics. I too plan on not glazing my clay because I like the directness the clay has, the feel, the colour. I like it’s raw appearance and this is what I want to portray in my installation. It was then that I actually looked at his work, it takes a very organized, grid like form which is what I want to achieve. I adore the simplicity that positioning objects can have on the audience. I really feel like it draws your eyes towards it leaving nothing left to distraction.
It is Gormleys field that has truly inspired me for my installation piece. I love the look of the terracotta against the simple plain white walls, and how they create a carpet against the floor. It is mainly how the piece was created that has inspired me, Gormley did not make the sculptures himself, he gave loose instructions to different sets of people (dependent on location) and observed as they made them. Reading Gormleys explanation of his work he says ‘I wanted to work with people’ and this is my main driving point. I want each sculpture to be individual to that person, something I could never create.
‘Antony Gormley’s field is a startling and arresting sight: thousands of unglazed, fired, small clay figures, standing closely together, all staring towards the viewer and filling a large enclosed space. There are more figures than can be counted, more still disappearing out of sight into a further space. Their number seems to be endless.’
Stacked hotel room is a brilliant catalogue of photographs and videos of Dade and Hanney. Each of these ten versions of Stacked Hotel Room has had the same parameters. The artists check into a given hotel. They familiarise themselves with the room. They dismantle the room without being discovered and without causing damage to its contents. They arrange the contents into a stack formation of some kind. They take a photograph of it and latterly have also videoed the process. Then they reassemble the room and everything is put back in its rightful place.
I love the accuracy of the stacking of items and how geometric the stack is. It’s so neat and almost unrealistic as to how everything can be placed into a cube shape. It seems bizarre that a whole room can be placed into a pile that fits perfectly centralised and it’s the idea of bringing everything to the centre of attention in the room that influences me. I like the idea of containing the room into one focal point and I also love how secretively it is done. The fact they put everything back into it’s original place without no one knowing is genius. It is the simple approach to creating something very unusual that attracts me to this work.
A look inside Seizure. Its interesting reading the mixed responses in the comments below the video. It fascinates me how negative people can be towards something so experimental!
I have stumbled across the work of Roger Hiorns. A piece called ‘seizure in which he pours 75,000 litres of copper sulphate into an abondened council flat to create a beautiful cove of crystals. I love the idea of turning something worthless into something beautiful and I think his work and ideas match this perfectly. I can’t imagine how bizarre and stunning this work must be in person but even the photos alone take my breath away. He has create a magical world in a typically run down place.
