Week 2

October 11th -16th
In painting this week we primed pieces of wood and discussed and looked through books of artists such as Lucy Skaer and Luc Tuymans who I found particularly interesting as he reuses images and photocopies them to reduce them to an image's bare essentials. I then used this approach by taking a photo and manipulating it by crumpling it up, putting it through a b&w photocopier, taking a photo of it on my phone (which weakens the quality) and then put cling film over it with bits of paper, mark it with cookie cutters on it and then re-photocopying it. 

I then took another photo, I had taken in Canada this summer with lots of hay bails on a big open field and kept taking photos of it on my phone and printing it out, watched how it changed colors. I then placed a British pound coin (similarly looking like a hay bail) on as a representation of me being there, although half canadian am seen as the english one, adapted  to a postmodern culture than a rural canadian living. The fading and changing colors represent the generations my family has been in Canada.

 

The highlight of my week was then spent at the Frieze Art Show in London on the 14th of October. There was so much to see, I was there all day and I dont think I saw it all, however it was all very inspiring to see. My favorite piece of work there was Study for Architectural Device for Four Sides by Peter Welz (www.peterwelz.com). He created the metal framework which makes his movements make sense. It gives an essence of him still being in one position for longer as you can see it in the metal framework even though he is still moving. Here is a video I took while I was there. 

In the sculpture park I noticed a piece of 'rubbish' art by Gavin Turk and as I was walking back from it I noticed a 'normal' bin which people had identically filled to the brim just like Turk had identically copied the public. Its true then the public gets what the public wants!