the low down...My Art Stuff and influences....

My project journey...so far!

I document everything, I have lots of photographs and files on this project...possibly the same way I hoard materials... 🤗 so a few short videos seemed fitting here!

My creative work primarily consists of sculpture, installation, printmaking, photography and digital media. Although I do enjoy the flexibility that all media can offer and how it can influence each discipline in my practice. My sculptural work so far has been made using found/sourced scrap materials. Materials such as industrial man made plastic 'purging' from a car manufacturing plant. A material scrapped on a daily basis, destined for landfill. Similarly, scrap metal wire and objects otherwise redundant of use.

My sculptural work I've used as a basis for new work in different material and media. (See previous post on Frank Stella and how he shared this interest to build upon and evolve new work).

I have used photography and sketches of my work and sculptures to create and extend further in video work and relief printing.

Similarly to the materials, there should be no limitations when it comes to what art can be created over and over from a 'base structure'.... if I did not explore and experiment further, I would feel injustice to myself and art work. This has always been the big 'thing' in my practice.

This project and work has been driven by initiative; usually no forward planning on the finished product. The idea of chance experimentation and self expression are very much the basis of my creative practice.

I have also continued looking at layers and repetition by using digital media. Scanning objects and my sculptural pieces to alter, distort and convert.

As I have learned to Arc and spot weld this semester I would love to continue and learn new skills in this area of metal work.

I have booked myself onto a beginner's Blacksmithing workshop in February through MBC Arts Wellbeing in Norfolk Street, Sunderland. During the session I will learn to create a horseshoe heart using a coal fired forge and traditional blacksmithing techniques, hammering and notching on the anvil! I am very excited for this workshop.

Going into the second semester I will start to focus and forward plan for my live outcome. Using and exploring other materials and media has helped to think of the kind of sculpture I would like to create for my live outcome.

Sketching of forms will be more of a focus now that I have explored metal sculpture in my spontaneous way.

The sculpture will occupy a space we might otherwise occupy ourselves, a static identity, unpredictable on how it may look in a space. Therefore sourcing a location will also be a top priority.

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