Last But Not Least

This is my final piece Pretty amazing if I do say so myself... 

 

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Exhibition Statement

Infinite Swirls

This work explores the themes of multiples, reflection, collection and repetition.  Throughout my project I carried out experimentation and it was through this development that I decide to look at the way my four main themes can be used to interact or disrupt space and light.

It was by chance that I happened upon a strip of paper which I began to curl into various shapes. The shapes themselves have a natural cellular quality to as though they were reflecting nature itself.  I combined several of these shapes together; a process that soon became second nature to me and which in turn would form the basis for the installation that stands before you.   The actual process of creating over 16,000 paper swirls became in itself a journey into my theme of repetition, folding over and over again for hours on end. This combined with the installation itself representing the four main themes in a huge physical statement.

The installation tries to impose itself on you by drawing you in, enticing you to come inside.  I am seeking to engage the observer in an emotional response of some kind regardless of that being a negative or positive response.

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The One Size Bigger Every Time

A couple of weeks ago I posted some images of some very beautiful paper swirls. I have decided to develop the idea further. so I've created a small frame about 1.2m squared and I've filled it with paper curls! here are the results from that test.... 

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Installation trails come to a close

Hey I've been recently experimenting lots of different media's and technique trying to figure out what I should focus on and do as I final piece thought these guys might get a few smiles...  

You can see them from the bottom of this hill! there made up of about a 100 post it notes each the plan was to see about putting a whole pack man game up on every window in UCA but we might run out of time unfortunately.

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Beware 50:1 Survival Rate

So Many Balloons 

Admittedly this was quite fun and almost doesn't qualify as art but it does look into the same concepts of repetition, multiplication and the way that it reacts within space. The idea was to creat some interesting form using balloons and then implement the structure into my studio environment and then film the results to see how people interacted with it.

 At the start of the project there were about 50 balloons but little did I know that the balloons that I had bought had a remarkable propensity for exploding when I least expected! unfortunately some of the girls in my studio started screaming when the balloons exploded so I was forced to remove my installation and instead chose to make a sound piece out the the noises that the balloons could make. There are now only 2 Balloons remaining.   

Now This Is String Theory

Now This Is String Theory 

The idea behind 'Now This Is String Theory' was to look into the ideas of repetition for instance if you take a piece of string and pin it to the wall its just a piece of string but if you repeat the process over and over again you end up creating something that interrupts and disrupts the space that your using. It became quite an interesting piece unfortunately the photos don't do it justice but it was interesting the way  that you were able to physically interact with it.     

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Pintresting?

The 'pintresting' installation was created by using 1,500 pins in combination of two separate pieces. It focused on both the use of repetition and collection and was originally inspired by 2 exhibitions that I have recently seen Song Dongs 'Waste Not' at the Barbicain and The Kusama Exhibition at the Tate Modern.  

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Repetition

Paper Swirls 

This is one of the first piece that I experimented with, the basic idea was to take strips of paper and fold them into varying curved forms.Then I combined the forms to make one single piece. The piece its self is reminiscent of natural lines and curves that can be found within elements of nature. The natural forms is an interesting concept that I am looking into exploring.       

Inspiration Tara Donovan and Natural forms such as the ocean and leaves 

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Hello

Hello! I'm an artist currently studying a two year extended national diploma and am planning to go to university next year. Although I'm a young artist I have already been lucky enough to have the opportunity of working at the Tate Modern on the  Uniliver Tate modern Series. The reason for starting up this blog is because I have arrived at the end of my course and have begun my Final Major Project. This blog is designed to showcase my final piece which will be exhibited in May at the Chatham Historic Dockyard in Kent.