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Excerpt from the IP Sense of Place assignment 

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WEEK #2- INDEPENDENT RESEARCH + ART ANALYSIS

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WEEK #2- INDEPENDENT RESEARCH + ART ANALYSIS

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a little piece i made in free time during this semester <3

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This Padlet includes a combination of JPEGS crafted on Canva, pictures of journal pages from classes and photos written/taking during each week. Due to a few sick days, some lessons and art gallery tours were sadly missed, but sublimated. However all classes that were attended and their substances have been documented and responded to critically in terms of my own art journey, perception of art and progress of the Independent Project assignments (Sense of Place and Experimentation and Innovation).

Workshops have been documented day by day straight onto Padlet at the end of each block.

Any excess external research in relation to some class tasks is recorded within my main studio assignment PDFS. Some of those pages have been documented, and some haven't as they were irrelevant to the compendium and class topics.

<3 Hope the Padlet is accessible. Captions for images have been included where relevant.

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The second day of working on the wheel, given free reign I aimed to explore making a solid and usable form such as a bowl or mug to fire in the furnace. However, exactly the same as before, I formed an almost identical wide plate shape (unfortunately not pictured). This time I worked to bring up thinner sides to my bowl, yet without an even and stable growth from the base, I drew the bowl wider and wider until it slumped over.

Overall, the wheel was enjoyable and well appreciated by my classmates, and is something I would love to work to improve upon. However, I would like to pave room next year for other forms of creating- as while this form of art making is homely and plays into many ideas of intimacy and traditionalism I would like to focus on mediums wherein I can explore more versatile and explorative acts of creating.

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Unfortunately unable to attend day 1 of the workshop, I was introduced to the wheel, as the instructor lead us through how to knead the clay, apply it to the wheel how to centre, pull and form the edges of an object.

kneading the clay proved difficult, as I pulled the clay back into itself the sides would continue to slip out. However, the beginning of forming a bowl on the wheel proved fairly easy, meaning my clay turned out fairly malleable.

The bowl unfortunately was pulled too wide and fell down onto itself. This was not able to be fired, yet proved to me a lesson of not pulling the form out to quickly.

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somehow only sourcing one glass puddle, this result that unfortunately snapped was obviously unfit to represent the more realistic depiction of falling water that I wanted to emulate. However, playing with these colourful discarded shards of glass made me even more intrigued by the creative potential of glass

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In this last lesson we were introduced to the 'Glory holes' where glass was blown and strung.

Each of us was given an opportunity to gather glass from the main furnace, twist and cool the rod and allow it to fall- observing it's movements and malleability

This proved very enlightening and almost empowering- provoking me to think a little hard about this subversively being a real possibility of major choice next year. The beauty in creating from such a fragile substance to create intricate works grappled me.

In my free time- in an attempt to emulate falling water for one or two mugs mug in my IP, I arranged crushed left-over glass to form a 'falling puddle', first in the fusing furnace to meld the glass into a puddle of 6mm height, then I arrived two consecutive weeks after this to slump the object (without the mug to use as a reference as I had not been well organized) over a leveraged object.

I also formed several small puddles to also somehow use in my project to emulate water being dripped into a mug or falling out.

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After being informed of how to smooth glass edges with a sander and apply the sand blaster, for this lesson we were able to carve some positives that we wanted to blast on glass pains using duct-tape.

Using the sander to smooth the edges proved fairly intuitive, after adjusting my position- resulting in fairly even edges on my piece. The sander was also intriguing to use but fairly simplistic, forming a cohesive image.

With free time, I explored my visual ideas of cracks and breakage in relation to my IP work idea by smashing glass pains then arranging them atop new pains to observe how breakage can be observed as art. It proved very interesting and affirmed that I wanted to focus on similar themes in my work.

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Unfortunately while missing a picture- there was not much progress to document. Continuing with habits I lead with in the previous session- I tried to build up a more accurate structure and add shadows to the work, all while still struggling to gravitate toward a more dry brush to make the paint dry quicker and become more clear and steady in building up highlights and shadows.

Despite this frustration, working in this environment made me want to work in a similar medium more- making me excited to potentially work in guace/drawing next year.

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Depiction of some before/afters of glass slumping and fusing

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Upon receiving an overview of glass-making and a safety check- we were then able to glass-cut and play with/throw on any scraps of class to slump or fuse in the furnaces.

While not clearly pictured, I slumped some straight cut strips of glass on various shapes, a large piece of blue scrap atop of a bowl shape, and an existing vessel into an upturned bowl.

Using the glass cutter as well, I attempted to cut a circle, and then slump it into a bowl shape.

In the fusing furnace I attached some cut strips to one another- connected by copper wire. This structure proved most intriguing- playing on ideas of fragility and malleability.

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Represented by my assignment PDF pages- the final exhibition involved me shifting the setting of my work and taking other critique and advise from classmates. 

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WEEK #13 THURS- FINAL EXHIBITION EVALUATION

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WEEK #13 THURS- FINAL EXHIBITION EVALUATION

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WEEK #11 THUR (SICK)- IP PRESENTATION PG 2

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WEEK #11 THUR (SICK)- IP PRESENTATION PG 2

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In a catch-up zoom set up on Monday, I displayed my ideas to Jan and then evaluated them as seen on the next page. Both of these pages are sampled from my "Experimentation and Innovation" assignment 

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WEEK #11 THUR (SICK)- PART A PRESENTATION PG 1 

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WEEK #11 THUR (SICK)- PART A PRESENTATION PG 1 

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close up of sketches planning my project and exploring visual and conceptual ideas

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WEEK #11 WED (SICK)- DEVELOPMENT OF IP PROJECT

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WEEK #11 WED (SICK)- DEVELOPMENT OF IP PROJECT

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In planned conversation with Jane, I explored several ideas surrounding the broken mugs I had created. This is further developed in the next post which outlines the ideas I developed in this sick down-time.

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WEEK #10- INDEPENDENT RESEARCH/ART ANALYSIS 

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WEEK #10- INDEPENDENT RESEARCH/ART ANALYSIS 

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WEEK #9 WED- COMPENDIUM PG 2 + ART ANALYSIS

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WEEK #9 WED- COMPENDIUM PG 2 + ART ANALYSIS

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Analysis of selected works at the Biennale and Exploration of innovative ideas surrounding the conceptual and visual nature of art

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Exploration of the conventions of 3D art, and what Experimentation and Innovation mean in applying them to art

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Picture taken upon visiting the Biennale at the AGNSW, upon being instructed to analyse a compelling experimental and innovative work that is 3 Dimensional for the Thursday class.

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Painting progress from day 1 and an image of me painting that day. Unfortunately- day 2 is not pictured. 

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Upon missing day 1 of the painting class where people were instructed to make their own 3D structure to use as a reference for their painting- I was handed one from a previous session and was set on providing a background wash for the painting and building in monochrome to depict the structure using acrylic paint.

after applying a fairly dry and even back wash- I found myself gravitating toward a wet brush during this session, and trying to build up the image to quickly without letting the first layer dry. It was an important lesson in building up specific tones one at a time.

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photographic emulsion and acrylic on canvas 59 x 45 in. (149.86 x 114.3 cm)

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On day 3 of screen printing, after placing my positives and screen in the exposure unit for 2 minutes I then sprayed with pressure hoses and cleared the emulsion to reveal all 3 positives.

I then dried the screen in sunlight, and once it dried set it up by taping up the buffers and placing the screen in the clamps to create my first positive (the blue colour). I had also in that time set up my plastic transfer sheet.

Using around 7 pieces of paper, I aligned beneath the pattern placed on the sheet and squeegeed to create varied levels of pigment/form in the first shapes.

A few turned out a little patchy, which was suggested to have been done because I was not effectively 'back washing' the screen to keep the ink wet. After more effectively getting the hang of that, the blue positive turned out well.

After rearranging the screen to transfer the yellow positive, I used the slightly damaged images as my first practice images once they had dried to see how the new positive appeared.

The more I was familiar with the squeegee and how much pressure and ink i needed to apply, the more clear the images were- meaning many of the yellow outcomes were clear and not patchy at all.

In letting these positives dry, I did not have time to print my third and final positive- the red linework of the piece. So because I am a perfectionist and completionist- I booked a room on a spare day (creating my own day 4) to complete my designs (of which I sadly did not collect once dried @-@)

The linework came in patchy during many sessions- as I struggled to back-draw the ink onto the screen. The intricate and small nature of this positive also meant it was a struggle to get ink clearly through. However- a few results turned out clear- just requiring me to clear out the screen a few times and start the spread again.

Overall this workshop felt satisfying, and the work felt easy to apply. I look forward to applying myself again to the screen- as it's way of conveying simple cartoon esc- designs and its ability to play with simple colours and layering is something that is right up my ally.

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While sadly not pictured, in the workshop I completed my third positive and then squeegeed my screen with emulsion and left it to dry for the 24 hours it required.

We were then shown how to align and apply the image from the emulsion to paper in all different colours/layers we required.

This involved taping slats of paper to elevate the screen, attaching the screen to the metal screen clamps, and then attaching the plastic transfer sheet with masking tape to map our design on to.

We were then given a demonstration of how one would plan out placement of their design, align the positives, and apply ink. We were also taught to back-spread the ink across our screen between printing copies to make sure no ink dried in the process.

It was enjoyable and i spread fairly evenly, looking forward to developing my image. I felt well informed on how to apply my image for next lesson

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instruction notes, sketch, positive 1 and positive 2 

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First week we were instructed on how to perform screen printing, specifically how to apply emulsion to a screen. We were also told the varieties of screen printing available

We were then instructed to draw 2 positives for both colours present. I illustrated a sketch, then on tracing paper illustrated my positives.

The idea of screen printing sounded exciting and versatile, able to convey simplistic yet visually compelling ideas/images

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Sampled from my "Sense of Place" assignment, this JPEG, and the second page displayed for this week represents the progress performed that day and my evaluations of the progress I gained in experimenting with this project

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WEEK #6 WED- INSTALLATION AND INDEPENDENT WORK ON ASSIGNMENT 

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WEEK #6 WED- INSTALLATION AND INDEPENDENT WORK ON ASSIGNMENT 

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I wanted to explore the ever-present desire of a ‘dream place’, the yearning that takes hold when you come across a place or fictional world that reminds you of the metaphorical and physical dream(2)

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Again sampled from the studio assignment- while stuck at home due to sickness across Wednesday and Thursday unable to participate in collage or gallery visit activity I refined my assignment development as people were instructed to do on the Wednesday. 

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I wanted to explore the ever-present desire of a ‘dream place’, the yearning that takes hold when you come across a place or fictional world that reminds you of the metaphorical and physical dream(1)

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This PNG is sampled from my Assignment PDF submitted for the "Sense of Place" assignment to represent my presentation of ideas that was not pictured :(

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WEEK #2 WED - COMPENDIUM NOTES + ACTIVITY

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WEEK #2 WED - COMPENDIUM NOTES + ACTIVITY

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WEEK #1 - COMPENDIUM NOTES AND ASSIGNMENT NOTES

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WEEK #1 - COMPENDIUM NOTES AND ASSIGNMENT NOTES