Drawing!

Drawing task using homemade tools! 

Wanted to think about space and ground, some worked out better than others!

I quite like the random and accidental marks and splodges, and also the rings made by the jars...

The bigger drawings were definitely the most successful,  made me think about the space, the concentration, bigger spaces gave the drawing 'room to breathe'! More to be done with a bigger scale...
It really helped me to think about space, and spacing, not just on paper, but composition in a wider sense, for example in my installations and sculptural pieces I am working on.

Minimalism, Piero Manzoni and Gary Kuehn

After looking around the city gallery, I bought a book about minimalism and it got me thinking about the nature of minimalism, 'a new kind of art [in the 60s] inspired by mathematics and industrial process'. Flipping through, I felt what seems integral is materials, space, positioning and forms; much consideration and thought is needed so that all these are working together, even if the aesthetic is minimal.

Possibly could relate to my ideas about strange and everyday, in a minimal sense, as sometimes minimalism is the most strangest idea, people often react 'I could have done that' if it is something quite plain, or just because something is so blank, or unfinished or seemingly uninteresting...etc.

I don't want to make my work plain (as I am partial to a french knot session) I think somewhere my work could translate this idea, plain lines, colours, dots: normal regular things...just a little out of place.

Robert Ryman

Carl Andre

Ralph Humprey

Bit like Rachel Whiteread? 30 years earlier...


Dan Flavin

I really like the neon lights... I definitely want to think about light, and space maybe in the next projects, Dan flavin- excellent! I am quite liking the use of light, quite a lot of finnish artists are quite good with light...

Also...Gary Kuehn! Same time around Eva Hesse...

And Piero Manzoni (came up on google too!)

Lines and Dots!

BLUE

Whitworth...

                     

                  

Dye?

Some of the weeks dying experiments... The big pink one, didn't turn out as expected, pleated the bottom as i did in one of my little samples, you can see the pleats a little bit! But the whole shade is very pink, could be good or bad, maybe further work to be done with it.

Layed/hung things up to think about arrangement and the forms and which pieced to concentrate on!

I quite like the mottled fabric of one, with the stitch; must persevere with the stitch! And the one that is looking bulbus, could be quite nice to dye with that graduated, stained look...

Scans...

A few scans of favourite pieces, looking at the lines and structures and colours..! Did a bit of editing.

Little bit of layering, might experiment a bit more, e/g with some huge pintucking over my dyed pieces, and print out a few of the images very large!

I have also done a few drawings, looking at the old stitch and dots again! The dotty ones, are sort of map drawings; I laid out tracing paper over and ordanance survey map of manchester and salford, half thinking about space and place, and half by chance as I had just found the map, so thought it could be an interesting... So the concentrated parts are the places I go most, so up and down quay street, cavendish, grovesnor, town and the northern quarter etc... I think they worked out quite nicely... and translate to my extensive use of french knots and lines of my stitch...

  

Colours and dust sheets!

Dust sheets! A little bit of sewing on this one, maybe sew it all together, into a tube? Take it around a bit? Stuff it? maybe.