It's about bloody time! I've been meaning to get my work up here for aaages. Well, if you call a week ages!
It lasted for 4 days, each from 9am to 5pm, so it was a VERY long day at the end of each!
CONTEXT
This elective is based in the ceramic/plaster, metal, wood and plaster workshops at Rossington Street. The intention is for you to explore various concepts and gain workshop skills focused to the creation of an ''Object'' which will qualify as a sculptural expression. In a world where issues of eco recycling are becoming more and more important, you must consider the effective use and inclusion of consumable items or products within your sculptural resolution.
BRIEF
Artists and designers have often found themselves working within parameters and limitations. As students, one of your main limitations with be financial and with this in mind consider the following and with this in mind consider the following; - domestic/industrial waste objects; plastic cups; bottles; containers; paper plates, magazines, newspaper; old cloth/textiles; natural organic waste-leaves e.g. grass cuttings, stick/twigs etc; cheap materials from Poundland; nails/tacks, lolly sticks, tea bags (used-unused)
Consider the form, structure and detail of an everyday item or product. Then THINK about how you might re-engineer it visually. Consider spatial formatting/fabricating/multiples/casting/reinventing and reformatting from the original scale.
Do not attempt to resolve one solution during the research phase, rather explore the theme through several maquettes, drawings or series of visuals in any form/format which records and tests your ideas and experiments in order to short list final sculptural or 3-dimensional response at a small or large scale in varied materials.
You will record all the processes and changes you encounter and learn through the entire project development in your own individual journal. You will be allowed time after the workshop period to construct/collate this, though you will be expected to gather materials throughout the project period. You will need to obtain the use of a digital camera to record work in progress, workshop techniques etc.
It lasted for 4 days, each from 9am to 5pm, so it was a VERY long day at the end of each!
CONTEXT
This elective is based in the ceramic/plaster, metal, wood and plaster workshops at Rossington Street. The intention is for you to explore various concepts and gain workshop skills focused to the creation of an ''Object'' which will qualify as a sculptural expression. In a world where issues of eco recycling are becoming more and more important, you must consider the effective use and inclusion of consumable items or products within your sculptural resolution.
BRIEF
Artists and designers have often found themselves working within parameters and limitations. As students, one of your main limitations with be financial and with this in mind consider the following and with this in mind consider the following; - domestic/industrial waste objects; plastic cups; bottles; containers; paper plates, magazines, newspaper; old cloth/textiles; natural organic waste-leaves e.g. grass cuttings, stick/twigs etc; cheap materials from Poundland; nails/tacks, lolly sticks, tea bags (used-unused)
Consider the form, structure and detail of an everyday item or product. Then THINK about how you might re-engineer it visually. Consider spatial formatting/fabricating/multiples/casting/reinventing and reformatting from the original scale.
Do not attempt to resolve one solution during the research phase, rather explore the theme through several maquettes, drawings or series of visuals in any form/format which records and tests your ideas and experiments in order to short list final sculptural or 3-dimensional response at a small or large scale in varied materials.
You will record all the processes and changes you encounter and learn through the entire project development in your own individual journal. You will be allowed time after the workshop period to construct/collate this, though you will be expected to gather materials throughout the project period. You will need to obtain the use of a digital camera to record work in progress, workshop techniques etc.
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