http://www.dezeen.com/2010/05/20/installation-for-the-uk-pavilion-at-shanghai-expo-2010-by-troika/
"Green City, Open City, Living City"
Installation for the UK Pavilion Shanghai Expo 2010 by Troika
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Monday, November 8, 2010
Did it Fall From a Tree?
This week I hope to make a mould of a conker and it's shell so that I can cast some concrete conkers. I want to create a natural form out of something normally found in Urban areas.
Felting It!
First I covered a small ball with thin layers of wool. Each coloured layer completely covered the colour that went before, this meant that the different coloured wools were visable when cut open.
I then used hot soapy water to soak the woolen ball, whilst using my hands to felt the ball. I continued for 20minutes until I was happy with the shape.
Felt ball before being cut.
After being cut. (Coloured layers are visable)
My finished Conker Shells! I also added some felted spikes to resemble the exterior texture of the conker.
I hope to make some more so that I can hang a series of them together, or I would also like to make a maquete of the city and place some conkers on pedestrianised streets, Life size conkers!?
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
The Conker
This week I am workin with conkers. I have drawn some from observations with a variety of media. At the moment I am recreating them using felt. I hope to create a bunch of them in all sorts of colours and sizes and experiment in creating the spiky surface of the shell:)
These felted balls reminded me of the shape and colour of conkers.
These are some felted images that I found interesting.
The image below of conkers suspended on some rope inspired me to make a series of felted conkers in which i could hang fron some rope also.
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Re-creating Textures
This picture is a combination of images photographs that I found interesting. Some are of leaves, moss, bark, the patterns in leaf venation and some microscopic views of the leaf.
These images are are also pictures that I found interesting because of their colour and texture. Although they are not organic pieces they represent all the elements of organic structures.
After attending some workshops I was inspired to recreated nature. I found some appropriate coloured wool and decided to finger knit! They could possibly represent bark, moss or weeds!
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Kate MccGuire
Kate MccGuire
''Kate MccGwire's work asks questions about the very nature of beauty. She's intrigued by the possibility of envisaging beauty as something more complex than merely what delights the senses: beauty can be about a problem; it can be something that repels you or makes you question the status quo. The idea that it is a cultural phenomenon, susceptible to argument through the creative process, fascinates her.
Much of Kate's work references Freud's 'Unheimliche' (the uncanny, or, literally, the 'unhomely'); the idea, to quote Freud, of 'a place where the familiar can somehow excite fear'. It also embraces artistic notions of the Abject.
She will take an everyday thing or idea that is intrinsically discomfiting and, by re-framing it, entice the viewer into re-examining their preconceptions and prejudices - cultural, historical, personal - about the everyday. The viewer's response is visceral, the impact immediate, the ideas triggered resonating in their mind somewhere beyond rational interpretation.
Organic patterns, forms and materials have an instinctive draw; work may look determinedly abstract to the naked eye, but by using a spiral or circle, or a familiar material, the viewer's gaze is lured inward, as if into a 'field of attraction', only to be repulsed or even menaced by the associations that unfold once 'inside'. At the same time the scale and delicacy of the work reinforce the potential for awe and beauty in the unconventional.
Intrinsic to her method is the collecting and sorting of materials from hundreds of different sources over a period of months, even years. In turn, pieces evolve intuitively as if out of the subconscious, the language evocative rather than purely illustrative. As the work takes shape, a new, playful reality emerges, so that the object itself becomes a sort of prism, refracting the layers of meaning and cultural associations buried within, the quantity of materials used sometimes deliberately overwhelming, as if charged with a power and ambition beyond the reach they possess when seen in isolation.''
After observing Kate McGuire's work and reading some of the artists statements I was very inspired!
''Kate MccGwire's work asks questions about the very nature of beauty. She's intrigued by the possibility of envisaging beauty as something more complex than merely what delights the senses: beauty can be about a problem; it can be something that repels you or makes you question the status quo. The idea that it is a cultural phenomenon, susceptible to argument through the creative process, fascinates her.
Much of Kate's work references Freud's 'Unheimliche' (the uncanny, or, literally, the 'unhomely'); the idea, to quote Freud, of 'a place where the familiar can somehow excite fear'. It also embraces artistic notions of the Abject.
She will take an everyday thing or idea that is intrinsically discomfiting and, by re-framing it, entice the viewer into re-examining their preconceptions and prejudices - cultural, historical, personal - about the everyday. The viewer's response is visceral, the impact immediate, the ideas triggered resonating in their mind somewhere beyond rational interpretation.
Organic patterns, forms and materials have an instinctive draw; work may look determinedly abstract to the naked eye, but by using a spiral or circle, or a familiar material, the viewer's gaze is lured inward, as if into a 'field of attraction', only to be repulsed or even menaced by the associations that unfold once 'inside'. At the same time the scale and delicacy of the work reinforce the potential for awe and beauty in the unconventional.
Intrinsic to her method is the collecting and sorting of materials from hundreds of different sources over a period of months, even years. In turn, pieces evolve intuitively as if out of the subconscious, the language evocative rather than purely illustrative. As the work takes shape, a new, playful reality emerges, so that the object itself becomes a sort of prism, refracting the layers of meaning and cultural associations buried within, the quantity of materials used sometimes deliberately overwhelming, as if charged with a power and ambition beyond the reach they possess when seen in isolation.''
After observing Kate McGuire's work and reading some of the artists statements I was very inspired!
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Urban Environment
To start I have decided to investigate the the environment in which i am surrounded by, Limerick City :) My project is based on the contrast between mechanical structures and the organic within the urban environment. I chose this because after observing the city I noticed that most of my photographs were a combination of both Urban and Nature. I also have an interest in organic structures, the natural colours and the beautiful textures. I think i've found a good starting point:)
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