Ellie Suri - FMP Padlet by Suri, Ellie K https://padlet.com/k2228582/kmx5cgqd24d90fkw en-us 2023-02-19 15:46:45 UTC 2026-01-25 21:48:10 UTC hello@padlet.com The Last of the Pelican Daughters k2228582 https://padlet.com/k2228582/kmx5cgqd24d90fkw/wish/2493138554 “I could have never imagined giving birth to such a family. To such a group of people. Look at them. Look at the way they move. All of this, through me. Through my daughter, my granddaughters. Same blood. Very. Different. Life. Carrying this blood, into what? Into heaven knows what. Tearing each other apart.” – Granny
 
A sense of connection across generations is present in this extract, heightened by the fluid language, with ‘through’ and ‘carrying’, repeated throughout the quote. This reflects the journey of blood through generations, as granny continues to feel her daughter (who's passed away) presence through her granddaughters, suggesting the idea that an individual does not cease to exist after they’re dead, but instead continues existing through family, most strongly through life they’ve created. 
]]> 2023-02-23 21:03:36 UTC https://padlet.com/k2228582/kmx5cgqd24d90fkw/wish/2493138554 Lindsey Mendick - ceramics k2228582 https://padlet.com/k2228582/kmx5cgqd24d90fkw/wish/2497958287 I have recently been exploring the material quality of clay and the connotations it holds in terms of its fragility and longevity. Mendick displays her ceramics within installations, playing on conventions of traditional ceramics by adding elements of the grotesque and the absurd. During my FMP, I want to follow this idea of worldbuilding, creating a wider space for my artwork to exist in. I've began exploring immersive artwork, an idea I want to bring through to my FMP, by thinking about the audiences experience when engaging with the art.
 
]]> 2023-02-28 13:40:19 UTC https://padlet.com/k2228582/kmx5cgqd24d90fkw/wish/2497958287 Rachel Whiteread 'House' k2228582 https://padlet.com/k2228582/kmx5cgqd24d90fkw/wish/2497992524 Through exploring the concept of a lingering presence after death, I've been looking at memorialising objects or events to capture the human activity that once took place within that space/involving those objects. By casting the negative space of a house in concrete, I feel that Whiteread is materialising the intangible - capturing suggestions of a previous existence within that space.

I think Whiteread's work has a strong link to the themes explored in 'The Last of the Pelican Daughters', with the exploration of life as an event. Through her work, Whiteread honours the mundane, picking up on the way that human interaction with a domestic space forever alters the objects existing within that space. Granny's quote, explores the same concept but in a more human way, instead looking at the lasting impact one persons life has on another.]]> 2023-02-28 14:02:04 UTC https://padlet.com/k2228582/kmx5cgqd24d90fkw/wish/2497992524 The Aftermath of an Event k2228582 https://padlet.com/k2228582/kmx5cgqd24d90fkw/wish/2500011705 The general subject area that I would like to explore throughout my FMP is the aftermath of events. Specifically, looking at ‘the aftermath’ as evidence of a previous lived experience and how the objects left behind after an event allude to the human emotions experienced during the event. ]]> 2023-03-01 18:42:27 UTC https://padlet.com/k2228582/kmx5cgqd24d90fkw/wish/2500011705 Inspiration - objects influencing grief k2228582 https://padlet.com/k2228582/kmx5cgqd24d90fkw/wish/2500015013 I was inspired to explore this concept from previous work I’ve created where I explored objects left behind after someone’s died and how this affects grief, especially as one’s possessions can often act a trigger of memory. This idea stemmed from reading the play ‘The Last of the Pelican Daughters’ by The Wardrobe Ensemble, where four daughters visit their family home and reminisce about their late mother. It was lines such as “a strange smell that never quite goes away” and the stage direction “the four daughters enter […] wearing the same red dress”, that reinforced this idea of the mothers looming presence within the house, a presence that would linger as long as her objects continued to existed within that space. ]]> 2023-03-01 18:44:30 UTC https://padlet.com/k2228582/kmx5cgqd24d90fkw/wish/2500015013 k2228582 https://padlet.com/k2228582/kmx5cgqd24d90fkw/wish/2500016675 The outcome of this exploration was a tactile piece, making a ceramic tissue box with printed tissues for the audience to extract from the box and keep. Whilst creating this box, I was looking at flowers as a motif, especially exploring funeral flowers and how they are used to decorate death in an attempt to honour the beauty of life, distracting from the pain of the early stages of grief. Here, I was inspired by ceramicist Vanessa Hogge, who creates intricate floral vessels out of porcelain, of which I see as having a gentle, calming quality that I wanted to mimic in my piece. I could use the significance of objects and possessions for memorialising an event as a starting point. ]]> 2023-03-01 18:45:40 UTC https://padlet.com/k2228582/kmx5cgqd24d90fkw/wish/2500016675 Inspiration - party publication k2228582 https://padlet.com/k2228582/kmx5cgqd24d90fkw/wish/2500021079 Another point of inspiration for my chosen subject area was a publication I made. I drew inspiration for this publication from reading ‘Chapter Four: Dinner’ of that same play. Although I looked at the same play, the tone of my work was very different, as I brought out the humour of the ‘messy memories’ I had from attending various parties. From looking at this scene of the play, I mostly wanted to channel it’s ‘dinner party’ aspect, looking at the idea of people coming together, with the sole intention being to have a good time. ]]> 2023-03-01 18:48:26 UTC https://padlet.com/k2228582/kmx5cgqd24d90fkw/wish/2500021079 k2228582 https://padlet.com/k2228582/kmx5cgqd24d90fkw/wish/2500028223 I explored my experience of this in my work, creating a photography-based publication, with pictures during and after various parties. It struck me how photography acted as a means to memorialise an event, capturing a moment in time, acting as a catalyst for the viewer to remember what happened in the moments prior or after. From creating this work, I feel that an interesting starting point would be to explore ways that parties, as an event, are memorialised. I’m often fascinated by how many social interactions involve the telling of stories, often involving events from various parties. I could explore how the influence of alcohol can impacts the events that occur during a party, as they break social barriers and allows people to become closer faster. I want to explore the act of telling stories as a way to memorialise events as a potential starting point. It’s interesting how the recounting of an event, if communicated in verbal form, will slightly change with every telling. I feel this has links to the idea of memory being fluid and constantly changing. It begs the question, if something is memorialised, does this have to be in such a permanent fixed way?]]> 2023-03-01 18:53:48 UTC https://padlet.com/k2228582/kmx5cgqd24d90fkw/wish/2500028223 k2228582 https://padlet.com/k2228582/kmx5cgqd24d90fkw/wish/2500030920 Through the work I’ve created so far, there is a link to the idea of memory as memorialisation, so I want to explore this further in my FMP. I need to think about the type of event I am going to explore, as I’ve looked at both grief and parties, which have very different connotations. I also need to explore the many manifestations of memorialising and what forms my work could possibly exist in.]]> 2023-03-01 18:55:49 UTC https://padlet.com/k2228582/kmx5cgqd24d90fkw/wish/2500030920 Jennifer Packer 'The Eye is not Satisfied with Seeing' - paintings k2228582 https://padlet.com/k2228582/kmx5cgqd24d90fkw/wish/2503928744 Painting is a medium I want to explore throughout my FMP, taking inspiration from Packer, who utilises the fluid qualities of oil paint to mirror the fluid qualities of memory. I want to explore applying the paint to create suggestions of objects and their relationship to people.]]> 2023-03-05 13:07:53 UTC https://padlet.com/k2228582/kmx5cgqd24d90fkw/wish/2503928744 Sophie Heawood 'The Hungover Games' - memoir k2228582 https://padlet.com/k2228582/kmx5cgqd24d90fkw/wish/2503958019 This extract from Heawood’s memoir stood out to me as it memorialises her memories of going to raves through the written word. She relates the feeling of freedom she felt when raving to her experience of becoming a mother, expressing how she wishes her daughter “the joy of being anyone, lost in the darkness, answerable only to the molecules”. 

This relates to the subject I’m exploring interestingly as Heawood compares the feelings experienced during the event of a rave to the feelings experienced during the event of everyday life. I feel that through Heawood’s words, a sense of longing for her memories of raving to be physicalised is created. She also talks about the disconnect between different people in everyday life disappearing at ‘the dance’, and I think it could be interesting to explore the liberation that comes from feeling like “nobody and nothing” and whether this ceases to exist after the party is over. ]]> 2023-03-05 14:05:44 UTC https://padlet.com/k2228582/kmx5cgqd24d90fkw/wish/2503958019 Tracey Emin 'My Bed' - installation k2228582 https://padlet.com/k2228582/kmx5cgqd24d90fkw/wish/2503961804 ‘My Bed’ intrigued me because of its reflective tone, laying bare the objects that Emin frequented during a depressive period. This work has led me to think about who I want the audience of my work to be, as here, the female items e.g. period stained clothes, elevated the anxieties of life as a woman, allowing it to resonate strongly with a female audience. ]]> 2023-03-05 14:13:13 UTC https://padlet.com/k2228582/kmx5cgqd24d90fkw/wish/2503961804 Nan Goldin 'The Ballad of Sexual Dependency' - photography k2228582 https://padlet.com/k2228582/kmx5cgqd24d90fkw/wish/2503979470 ‘The Ballad of Sexual Dependency’ is an honest depiction of New York’s party scene and gay culture in the 1970s and 80s. What struck me was Goldin’s reasoning for creating the work. Her determination to immortalise the memories of her friends through photography seemed to stem from the pain caused by losing the memory of her sister, who passed when she was young. To me, this raises questions for my FMP of the importance of immortalising memory, as in Goldin’s case, it’s to bring comfort in the knowledge that her memories exist in a permanent, physical state and therefore cannot be forgotten.  ]]> 2023-03-05 14:45:12 UTC https://padlet.com/k2228582/kmx5cgqd24d90fkw/wish/2503979470 Rachel Whiteread 'Torso' k2228582 https://padlet.com/k2228582/kmx5cgqd24d90fkw/wish/2504038313 Torso' was the first of many castings of hot water bottles Whiteread did and I think it reflects how Whiteread views life as one great event, often casting forgotten spaces of domestic objects. This is quite relevant to my work as the objects she brings attention to often reflect the emotional resonance of everyday objects, by capturing evidence of previous human interaction with the object.]]> 2023-03-05 16:36:06 UTC https://padlet.com/k2228582/kmx5cgqd24d90fkw/wish/2504038313 Why Humans Need Stories - article k2228582 https://padlet.com/k2228582/kmx5cgqd24d90fkw/wish/2504128619 2023-03-05 19:21:24 UTC https://padlet.com/k2228582/kmx5cgqd24d90fkw/wish/2504128619 k2228582 https://padlet.com/k2228582/kmx5cgqd24d90fkw/wish/2504183571 This subject area relates to the bigger picture of my work because I am fundamentally interested in exploring human interactions, whether that be with people or objects. A conceptually relevant piece I made in specialism was the ‘Conversation Table’, where I investigated bringing a tangibility to the ephemeral nature of speech, specifically capturing a conversation that had already happened between my family in our living room. This was the first time I explored a space in which humans inhabit, deciding to focus on how objects within that space were affected. Ultimately, I immortalised the conversation by painting it onto living room furniture. 
 
Materials I have enjoyed exploring throughout specialism have included ceramics, especially the slab building technique to create crisp, angular outcomes. I have also handmade floral details, focusing a lot more on moulding the clay, a technique which I feel will be interesting to bring into my FMP. I aim to continue painting throughout FMP, especially having explored incorporating other materials to create textured paintings with a strong narrative. In my piece inspired by ‘The Tempest’, I feel I successfully manipulated chiffon with oil paint to realise Shakespeare’s vision of creating a storm contrived from magic. Ideally, my FMP will include both sculptural and painted elements, creating an immersive thought-provoking outcome.  
]]> 2023-03-05 21:12:30 UTC https://padlet.com/k2228582/kmx5cgqd24d90fkw/wish/2504183571 Malleable Memory - article k2228582 https://padlet.com/k2228582/kmx5cgqd24d90fkw/wish/2504188240 2023-03-05 21:24:13 UTC https://padlet.com/k2228582/kmx5cgqd24d90fkw/wish/2504188240 Introduction to my Subject Area k2228582 https://padlet.com/k2228582/kmx5cgqd24d90fkw/wish/2504188789 2023-03-05 21:25:35 UTC https://padlet.com/k2228582/kmx5cgqd24d90fkw/wish/2504188789 Contextual References k2228582 https://padlet.com/k2228582/kmx5cgqd24d90fkw/wish/2504190564 2023-03-05 21:29:36 UTC https://padlet.com/k2228582/kmx5cgqd24d90fkw/wish/2504190564 The Bigger Picture k2228582 https://padlet.com/k2228582/kmx5cgqd24d90fkw/wish/2504190999 2023-03-05 21:30:44 UTC https://padlet.com/k2228582/kmx5cgqd24d90fkw/wish/2504190999 Bibliography k2228582 https://padlet.com/k2228582/kmx5cgqd24d90fkw/wish/2504233766 Goldin, N. (2022), ‘Why “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency” Endures in the Twenty-First Century’ Retrieved from:
https://aperture.org/editorial/why-the-ballad-of-sexual-dependency-endures-in-the-twenty-first-century/
[Accessed 2nd March 2023]
 
Heawood, S. (2021), ‘The Hungover Games’ published by:
Penguin Random House, ISBN: 9781784707644, ‘Chapter 29’ Page 204 – 205
 
Mendick, L. (2022), ‘Till Death Do Us Part’ Retrived from:
http://lindseymendick.com/c-v
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Neimark, J. (2022), ‘With memory so malleable, can we ever know what’s real?’ Retrieved from:
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Robson, D. ‘Our fiction addiction: Why humans need stories’ Retrieved from: 
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180503-our-fiction-addiction-why-humans-need-stories
[Accessed 5th March 2023]
 
Serpentine. (2021), ‘Jennifer Packer: The eye is not Satisfied with Seeing’ Retrieved from: 
 https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/jennifer-packer/
[Accessed 2nd March 2023]
 
Takac, B. (2019), ‘How Art Immitates Life in Tracey Emin’s Bed’ Retrieved from:
https://www.widewalls.ch/magazine/tracey-emin-my-bed
[Accessed 4th March 2023]
 
Tate. ‘Turner Prize 1993 Artists: Rachel Whiteread’ Retrieved from:
https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/turner-prize-1993/turner-prize-1993-artists-rachel-whiteread
[Accessed 1st March 2023]
 
The Wardrobe Ensemble. (2020), ‘The Last of the Pelican Daughters’ published by:
Nick Herne Books, ISBN: 9781848429352 
 
The Wardrobe Ensemble. (2020), ‘The Last of the Pelican Daughters’ published by:
Nick Herne Books, ISBN: 9781848429352, ‘Chapter Four: Dinner’ Page 32 
 
Young, L. (2017), ‘“Torso”, Rachel Whiteread, 1988’ Retrieved from:
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/whiteread-torso-t15485
[Accessed 1st March 2023]
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