Images_Assemblage

-

These are forms I like and think they are worth going back to when going a bit larger.

Also, I find that here the combination with wire works well.

















Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Final Reflective thoughts

-
Sandra Holle HOL14245918 August 2021 Reflection and evaluation of my MA / professional practice course:   When I first started a Level 3 course at Hull College school of art and design in 2014, I only wanted professional advice on my painting and to improve my technique. Since then, painting is what I have done the least. What, however, emerged over time, was an understanding of why I do what I do and why it always seems to develop towards a certain direction. During all the projects that I did, there was always a sense of distress, muted colours, imperfections and organic-ness to my work that I have grown fond of. That’s me.   I moved from oils to drawing to school workshops to animation and model making to knitting with upcycled PET to clay and finally seem to have settled with sculpture, mainly in concrete but I also don’t mind the occasional piece of copper on my workbench. These 7/8 years gave me such a wide range of skills and I was well able to feed my curiosity about d...
Read more

Rhodin et al

-
Image
 Here are some inspirations that I collected: I liked the step-by-step display of how a plaster cast is made from a complex shape like this sitting figure. I hope to explore more complex casts in concrete in the future. Amongst all the sculptures in V&A, the bronzes by Rodin really appealed to me. I find the surfaces so tactile and they reminded me slightly of my hand-built concrete forms when they are polished. It would be inbteresting to try and achieve a bronze-like texture like Rodin's but in concrete. Nature always is the best inspiration. This magnificent wilted tropical flower looks so sculptural and reminds me, that there can be beauty in decay.  The presentation of this 'screaming jar' is very inventive. I find that this is a great example of how to elevate an artwork. The colour of the sandbags and the concrete wall frame the terra cotta beatifully. These two columns I found in the cast court of V&A. Columns have been carriers of meaning since the first he...
Read more