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During this residential trip we visited a variety of galleries my favoutites being The New Contemporaries and The National Portrait Gallery. Each gallery we vistited had its own aesthetic, the portrait gallery being my favourite architecturally due to the lighting, steady staircases, windows and engravings on the ceiling and walls.
The most enchanting exhibition I saw on this trip though was Madeleine Wood's. The large scale cardboard illustration that caught the viewers eye. However, what I enjoyed most was looking through her work in the form of several books. I had seen artists sketchbooks in galleries before but never in the form of an interactive way. The sketchbooks told the usual hidden narrative of the journey that lead up to the piece on display.

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I decided to use a typewriter for my typography as I it matches the antique aesthetic I am forming throughout my work. I also noticed that a majority of the typography examples I found included type in some way.

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Christian Boltanski was a French artist who grew up in dual cultures, Jewish and Christian. He is best known for his light instillations. His art is about mourning, death and memory. He often created stories within his work, he did this by including photos and objects from him and his families history and combined them with similar material that did not belong to him or his family. He called this "individual mythology" and said it was a way for him to show his own history as evidence of the collective memory of all humans.

His most popular work is titled 'The Reserve of the Dead Swiss', this work includes 42 photos squared together in groups. This way of organised dehumanizes the people in a sense looking at them as a group instead pf individuals which in itself says a lot about how people remember. Each photo is individually lit giving the viewer a sense of torture and persecutions. He found the photos in the obituaries section of a Swiss newspaper. Often the images in these sections made people feel uneasy and Boltanski used this to his advantage. He enlarged the photos so the resolutions of the images became low this obscured identity of the person.

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After Ekwensi: All the Single Ladies - Carolyn Thompson

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After Ekwensi: All the Single Ladies - Carolyn Thompson

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After Pessoa: I Was Not The Only Corpse - Carolyn Thompson

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After Pessoa: I Was Not The Only Corpse - Carolyn Thompson

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Grayson Perry explores the ritualistic desires that come with being human when faced with hard philosophical questions. These feelings are felt throughout society and Grayson Perry discovers the set traditions of Sulawesi's own cultural events when dealing with death. Most prominent the length of time the body is kept in the house, which has no specific time limit and is left until the family is ready (in this specific case around a year). He then compares this with the general loss of large tradition with the UK instead exploring the unique ways people have taken to understand their emotions.

Within the show he added his own work to a hand made family shrine wall and held a funeral for a living man. Both of these were bittersweet and very contrasting. A boy whos life was taken unexpectedly far too soon and a man who had been coming to terms with his own death for 8 years. Both of these bought out the important lesson of treasuring the memories you do have. This resonated with me as I have been trying to grasp the memories of my grandad throughout the whole project as I lacked many of my own as I only knew him for 17 years and due to his stroke he struggles to speak for long periods of time.

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Grayson Perry - Rites Of Passage [Death]

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Grayson Perry - Rites Of Passage [Death]

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Helen Chadwick explores the female form and the way society sexualizes the naked female form within a lot of her works (as well as other inherently sexist traits put on woman) while doing so she helped to break the stigma within these topics. She was one of the first women to be nominated for the Turner Prize.
My favourite work of hers is her most famous work 'Pi** Flowers' which are casts created by the snow melting when Chadwick and her husband urinated in the snow. The tall structures (often referred to be as being phallic) are Chadwick's casts as she was closer to the ground. The meaning behind the work is the spectrum of gender, what she calls the "in-between of gender". which for the time (1991) was quite a new topic to be discussed so openly.

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Also known as "Feel it MotherF***ers".
The fan was found in John Boskovich's lovers apartment after his death from AIDs in the October of 1995. He had lost everything expect what was deemed "worthless" as Earabinos family had cleaned out the place including Boskovich's own possession. An entire persons existence and relationship erased like several others stories during the AIDs crisis.

Boskovich view the cut outs as restoring Earabinos breath hence a gesture to preserve Earabinos lite. Many have said it captures the denial felt while grieving a loved one.

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I painted out my Grandad from the photos as it represented the fading memories I had of him as I had not seen him several months prior to his death, mostly due to covid, this is a deeply upsetting aspect of the grief I feel for my Grandad so I wanted to express it at some point during the project. This was also a pretty simple way to create an interesting effect with the photos as once on acetate the figure became transparent.

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I am inspired by these books specifically for the idea of narration due to all the characters being presented very realistically for example their moral ambiguity which really brings the storyinto real life . Along with this both main characters (also the narrators) have huge egos but this gives the stories a sense of romanticism that often creates a contrast within the characters inner dialogue which is entertaining to read but also leaves you questioning them.

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I know I want to work with vintage book illustrations as I have always been interested in this style of work, it feels really nostalgic. I remember we used to play card games when my grandparents came over and my favorite was the game "Happy Families" we specifically had the Gibson and Son version, I remember because I loved the colours and illustration style used.

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As this was my first time working with monoprinting I moved the image while working and this was the result. Although it is not what I wanted I think the print has a slight humour to it which makes it captivating.

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I wanted to experiment with different ways of monoprinting as I enjoyed the results so much. So I worked with 3 colours and they remind me of old colour photo printing. Unfortunately, they did not give the right level of classical illustrations I was after, though I will experiment with this in my foundation year.

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My pencil seemed to stiff to express the emotions I wanted to tell to go along with my writing, so with a tutors advice I tried monoprinting. The results worked a lot better as illustrations as they were much more fluid and I had less control so it prevented the static look I was getting with my drawings.

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I wasn't able to go into the studio this week due to having covid so I decided to look into ways I could show the writing I had been working on as it is the most important and precious aspect of the project to me so I wanted to make sure it had at least equal focus to my prints.

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I am just experimenting with different outlooks on the theme of preservation. I am mainly focused at the moment on the fear of death and aging but I am still unsure how to show this through imagery.

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Only Unclaimed Item From The Stephen Earabino Estate - John Boskovich

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Only Unclaimed Item From The Stephen Earabino Estate - John Boskovich

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While thinking of a way to display my work I thought of a suitcase as it holds alot of relevant meaning. For example, it stores away memories, it is often carried around with you and you keep it safe while doing so and finally it just signifies a journey all of these link to the themes within my project. I also saw this suitcase for sale and new I had to purchase it for my exhibition. I love the worn in aspects of it: the rust, the stains, the scratches. I thought it would really match the old fashioned look my work has as well as match my art tonally.

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I did almost complete the book that I had planned to create as a summarization of my work in the project. However, as I was creating the book I felt as if it was a poor representation of the project, feelings and artworks I had created within the project. It felt very static compared to the experimental feel of my work. I understand my aspirations at the beginning of wanting a book to contain the project as it was the most fitting for producing the nostalgia of looking through memories within a photobook that I hope to form in my exhibition. Now however, I am viewing the final exhibition as being more metaphorical and while brainstorming after coming to this creative wall I decided on a piece more similar to Marcel Du Champs Green Box.
It will allow the people within the exhibition to react to the work as they wish with various pieces of paper that at first will tell a narrative that is chronologically correct. Though as the viewers interact with the loose pages and look through them they may become jumbled. This matches the themes of the project much better as it shows the way grief is not a set emotion which has been explored within my contextual research; it will also match the randomized look of my wall that I began to curate throughout.

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Ways Of Dealing With Bereavement In Other Cultures 

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Ways Of Dealing With Bereavement In Other Cultures 

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I continued to add colour to my prints, however, I decided that for the book it would look cleaner with the type to stick with the original black and white prints.

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Inspired by Hughie O'Donoghue I wanted to try and create a practical collage. The coloured print behind creates alot of depth and blurs out the harsh lines that are constant within my work at the moment, so it was a nice juxtaposition.

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Sophie Calle is an artist I previously researched in my 'Traces' project, however, my final piece did not really reference her to say I enjoy her way of working the most. My favourite piece of hers is the book 'True Stories' were she works mostly with the subject of vulnerability and how humans react to themselves and others being vulnerable. She often incorporates her own life within her works and how she depicts herself and people around her.