Junko Mori Metal work

8th Jan 2020 | rowenamahon

1974 born in Tokyo Japan next to nature. She owned a veg patch where she lived. At ten years old she had bioligy class and used a microscope, that’s when her obsesion began. She then studied patterns and activity from plants, ponds and moss through the microscope.

She began to draw visual jogging’s inspired by the images she saw out her microscope.

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Apparently out of all the materials she use to make her sculptures she found metal the hardest.

Propagation

When she assembles the componance together “not one is identical like humans”. When she makes any of the metal pieces she never knows the outcome of her work.

Spring Fever

Inspired by a tree stump covered in moss on a walk in snowdonia. They look like metal plants growing out of patches of land.

She made four chandeliers inspired by exotic plants for an art exaction. She was terrified if the chandelier fell it could be lethal and she was scared that it might kill someone. When she was at the exaction she was very wherry of it and tried to keep away from it.

Interviewing Ffion Mai

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You can view Ffion Mai’s art

What is your favourite type of art?

Ffion Mai’s strengths in art is graphic design and photography. I would say that she is clearly experienced on using tec to her advantage. Me personally I am not so comfortable using technoligy to complete tasks simply from lack of understanding, so I find it impressive.

What is your least favourite type of art?

Ffion Mai’s answered with “My least favourite would have to be ceramics”.

Who is your favourite artist?

Ffion gave me a quick name ” Niki Pilkington”.

Niki Pilkington is a Welsh illustrator based in Los Angeles via New York producing highly charged, trend inspired fashion portraits, gaining her a client list which includes TOPSHOP, Ted Baker, Sir Paul McCartney & MTV.

Why did you choose art?

She said “It’s therapeutic”. I understand, art helps explore our emotions, improve self-esteem, relieve stress, improve symptoms of anxiety and even depression. In her case art is relaxes her.

Before collage did you want to do other subjects, besides art?

Apparently she was not interested in any other subjects, which reprised me.

Do you have any hobbies?

I was intrigued to find out that she plays the guitar. She is interested in fashion and impressively on the subject of sports she does climbing and kick boxing in her spear time.

Were you in school before?

Apparently she was in school before, so I can imagine going into collage for the first time is quite over whelming for her. She is in Level 3 now and Level 3 is made to be hard and tough on new artists so the students can reveal and improve on their strength and weaknesses.

I was in Level 2 when I first began collage only so I can be prepared for Level 3, so she clearly has parental to suceed in Level 3 if she didn’t require preperation.

What did you expect in collage?

Ffion answered ” Social skills”. So apparently she expects to improve her social skills and make new friends.

Cumbria Collage- art presentation

26th Nov 2019 | rowenamahon

I thought the presentation really spoke to me as an artist. The man giving the presentation spoke my language, what I mean by that is sometimes when a person is feeding me buckets of information it tends to go over my head because of lack of understanding, but this presentation made it easier for me to understand because the man understand how an artist thinks.

The man giving the presentation was very calm and clearly very experienced. He would give the audience leaflets and will ask us to hand book around of examples of artists work that became successful.

He would give the audience advice on how to become successful like “Fight for what you believe in, even if that leads to arguing”. He was explaining that you must have a lot of passion for your work. Also “To be successful is communication”. He said that you need to have social skill and talk to people instead of avoiding them.

He would complain that my generation is basically too afraid, and I agree on that statement. He told the audience the reason why we now have machines to give orders in Mc Donald’s is because the young workers are too afraid to speak to the customers. And it’s not just in the work place he would complain that he never sees anyone expressing themselves in public in-case they will be judged harshly, like two lovers holding hands or even kissing in public.

This presentation really taught me a lot about success and my generation

The Ruthin trip

26th Nov 2019 | rowenamahon

This sculpture is made by Charles Gurrey. The sculpture is made of plaster and crystecal and the stand and letters are made of plastic. I noticed that the the artist invented a unique way to demonstrate text. All the letters are in capital letters and are placed on top of each other making it difficult to read what the text says. But I had discovered that the text is actually poetry. “How should we like it were stars to burn with passion for us we cannot return , if equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me”.

Neil Bottle “All that remains- thirty years in the making”

Neil Bottle uses mixed medias in his work. He uses textiles, digital effects and printing. In Ruthin there was a whole room dedicated to Neil Bottle’s work, even a room of his merchandise. They were very large collages with images of old family photo’s and family heirloom .

This is a photo of his grand mother holding his mother.

Winifred’s Legacy– This photo is precious to the artist because apparently this is the only photograph of his grandmother in this period of her life. She is either 14 or 15 in the picture.

Chasing birds away

Louise Tiplady– Stargazer

This is a sculpture of someone stargazing. the sculpture is made of Cornish soap stone which has been hand sculpted with letter. The text is poetry, ” Now that the night has passed and I watch the moon descend”.

Phill Surey– object of communication

All the letters of the alphabet. 26 sand stone table, hand carved

What I thought of the Tate Trip in Liverpool

22nd Nov 2019 | rowenamahon

I remember going to the Tate gallery last year when I was in Level 2 and by returning to the same gallery in Level 3 I noticed that most of the art work was the same as last years, so it was difficult to be inspired. But I did manage to find many different are pieces and discovered many artists.

The first room had a bus inside. You where allowed to sit inside the bus, I was lucky enough to sit in the drivers seat at one point. The bus came with sound effects of road work, I guess to give the impression like the bus is moving.

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Mountain Lake, an oil painting made by Salvador Dali in 1938. Dali used multiple images to question what is real and what is not. It reflects the artist’s life in public evens.

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Casserole and closed mussels. It was made by Marcel Broodthaers, a 3D model of real mussels stacked like a tower on a pot. The mussels are a popular dish in Belgam and it reminds the artist of his home land.

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I was fascinated and moved by the meaning behind the picture The house of my father by Donald Rodney. The photo is mounted on aluminium. It meant ” having to live within a structure hopelessly unable to sustain itself”. The fascinating part was that the small house is made of skin removed from Rodney in operations for the sickle cell anaemia which was to kill him only a year later, aged 37. They were having a black history talk in one of the studios to discuss art and asking “Why aren’t there many artists who are black?”

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I was quite intrigued by this one sculpture. The statue is called Michelangelo’s David made by Sir Eduardo Paolozzi. The statue is a head of Michelangelo David that had been cut into pieces and been put together with pieces of ply wood and string in-between the gaps of the face. I was fascinated by it because I’am really interested in human faces and detail.

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I like the statue called Venus of the Rags also made by Michelangelo Pistoletto. It’s a sculptures of an over-life sized classical statue of the Roman goddess of love that has been stuffed into a large pile of old clothes.

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On the top floor there was a whole studio dedicated to Kieth haring’s art work. It was full of famous paintings of his pop art on canvases, the walls, on chalk boards and even stone. Much of his work responded to contemporary social and political events. This was the first painting I noticed on the top floor. Apparently these two painting were inspired by Disney and Dr Seuss.

I noticed that one of Kieth Haring’s paintings is based on a historical event. He painted a picture based on Nelson Mandela’s 70th birthday.

Exploration Final Major project

21st Nov 2019 | rowenamahon

This is my project design

This idea is inspired by the statue head of Michelangelo’s David sculpted by the artist Sir Eduardo Paolozzi. It’s basically a sculpture of Michelangelo’s David’s head been cut into chunks and put together with bits of wood in-between the gaps. I discovered the artist when visiting the Tate gallery in Liverpool.

My idea for my Exploration project is to create a sculpture of half of my head and half of my twins head and combine them together. We are not identical twins but we do have very similar features; the main difference would be our hair styles.

The sculpture is made of plaster and I carved it using an exacto knife. Plaster is soft but is really hard and tough. I had to use a coping saw to hack off big chunks to create the structure of the head.

This is me starting my project. Once the plaster had dried I drew a square on the surfase of the plaster so I know where to cut. This was the hardest part because the plaster was hard to cut and took a lot of time. The process would take at least a whole day. My hands would become saw after cutting.

This was the result after finishing with the coping saw. After that the task became easier and more enjoyable because then I can finally start on carving the face.

The satisfying part was adding the details in the face. As I progressed I began making the face rounder, making the eyes and cheeks more visible and creating detailed lips and even a philtre. A philtrum is the curve in-between the mouth and nose. I even began to form the hair.

I believe my project went very well indeed considering this was my first time carving. The process was long and had but in the end the putting in the extra effort was well worth it. I did originally want to have bits of wood in-between the gap after the head was cut in half like the statue head of Michelangelo’s David, but the I decided that it’s not necessary because I got a lot of second apinions and people like the crack in the middle of the head. This task has given me a new shonra of skill and I hope to continue keeping out of my comfort zone when it comes to new materials.