mixing colour do do be do

In my learning agreement I said I wanted to make a conscious effort to be more considerate about my colour choices, im really liking pastle colours at the moment...

trip

The London trip was enjoyable and a chance to view a variety of exhibitions and the way they were curated with our end of year exhibition in mind. I went to the two tates, the Haywood Gallery, had a dodgy chicken tikka baguette on Southbank and then went to the Museum of Everything. This was by far the most worthwhile exhibition I saw -the building was full of charm and the layout was really well thoughtout with lots of knooks and crannys to explore. Very quirky and refreshing to see an exhibiton that breaks away from conventions by representing outsider and self-taught artists. I enjoyed seeing the collages of Henry Darger and especially liked drinking tea from the missed matched cups and saucers in the shop at the end!

Francesco Simeti

'Arabian Nights' (2003)

Francesco Simeti’s appropriates and digitally modifies newspaper and magazine clippings from war scenes and other violent acts and re-arranges them in repetitive sequences to create images with a deliberately decorative element, that conceal an alarming sub-text. In this way, he comments on the aestheticisation of violence but also on the way in which the media often reduce horrific events to trivial episodes. Simeti is concerned with the way we consume images and information through the media but also the way that media information has different meanings or repercussions for different groups of people.

'Wallpaper is a perfect grid for me to organise and make sense of my archive of media clippings and it allows me to create hidden narratives.'

What I can appreciate and take from Simeti's work is his clever way of combining found imagery with a traditional aesthetic and technique. The wall paper is not purely decorative but driven by its comtemporary content.

Warhol wallpaper

Andy Warhol's Cow Wallpaper (1966) Bold, screenprinted cow motif has become an iconic work of Warhols. Saw this work in the Tate Modern. Warhol is known for producing work that draws directly from contemporary American culture that show how objects can be taken out of context and re-presented as an artform such as his painting of the Campbells soup can, Warhol is directly confronting the issue of what is art?and asking the audience to reassess their idea too.

Hand printed wallpaper

Deborah Bowness been designing and producing hand printed wallpapers for 7 years. Her work has a playful sophistication that combines wallpaper panels with photographs of things like clothing, shoes, mirrors and frames.

Boarded up

Found this work by James Reynolds whilst looking on printeresting.org. With more and more businesses being forced to close down, the sight of bare wood across the windows and doors is now commonplace and unsightly. By pasting the wooden panels with actual images, this problem is solved - clever use of realistic, tromp l'oeil imagery intergrated into the environment.

Unit begins

So learning agreement and time plan are handed in and so the practical work starts from today.thought I would start off my learning blog by posting images up my VERY initial development work, still very early stages. The top image is a transfer print of the 1911 Royal wedding celebration mug shown below. Im going to begin experimenting with layers of colour on my screenprinting course.