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Commission.
I have been in contact with a girl from Chichester University who is currently in her first year of her drama/performing arts BA(Hons) course. She would like some work to be made that can be hung from the ceiling while actors are performing below them.聽
As the drama piece is about empowering women, she is wanting a series of illustrated, non realising, vaginas and vulva paintings to hand from the ceiling approximately size A5 or A4.
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Leake Street Graffiti Tunnel.
Leake Street Graffiti tunnel is the only place in London where it is legal to do graffiti and street related art work. The place is an unused train tunnel. I have been to visit this place everytime i have been in London since i discovered it. Its interesting to see how the place has grown and evolved throughout each visit. Somethings stay, some things go. The first time i visited, the area was pretty bare with only me and my mum down there, however this time there has since been a cafe installed along with actual lighting, its nice to see that the place is finally getting some recognition.聽
Much like 59 Rivoli in Paris, this is another area where you can come and visit the artist while they are working, however in here, anyone can be involved. One day id like to take a project down here and experiment with work.聽
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London.
While on our travel over to Paris, we travelled all the way there on coach, and spent an entire day in London beforehand before travelling through the night. While there, we took the opportunity to visit some art galleries, i really wanted to go to visit the exhibitions being shown at The Saatchi, and i also took people to Leake Street Graffiti tunnel.
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Paris.






59 Rivoli.聽
In the centre of Paris lies one of my favourite aspects of the entire city. This former squat house became a legal art studio and gallery in 2001 and it has open doors to the public for free. Inside, every single wall and floor surrounding the ongoing spiral staircase inside is covered in graffiti and street style art work which anyone can take part in. However, inside each room lies and artists studio where they publicly show, sell and create their work. I am at my most inspired when i am here being able to see people working in these environments while being blessed with the opportunity to walk through and see what people are creating.聽
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Maison Europ茅enne de la Photographie: JR.
JR is another artist that we were encouraged to research while on my foundation course so i took the chance to go and see an exhibition of his wok while i could. JRs work is very intimate in different ways compared to other artists as they're actually out there in the open for people instead of hidden inside galleries. This way, he is able to attract the attention of a broader audience, people that don't go to art galleries.
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Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art.
On one of our days where we had little planned, we went to view a few smaller exhibitions and galleries. Here I saw some very different ways of working and panipulating paint, like in the images above where the piece has become a sculpture, lit up to create even more details upon the floor via shadowing.
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Foundation Louis Vuitton: Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Towards what would be known as some of his final pieces of work, and the end of Basquiats Life, he began using photocopied pieces of his sketches and drawings that he could use as grounds to work quickly on top of, if you look closely, you can see some of the repetition. He also produced some work that was comic book inspired and this was his original idea for his artistic career.
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Foundation Louis Vuitton: Jean-Michel Basquiat.
These pieces are all collaborative pieces with Basquiat himself and Andy Warhol. Though it cannot be portrayed on camera, these pieces of work were huge. The contradiction between loose and refined work in these sit on top of one another perfectly in a way that makes the works look like prints to me. Many of them also included a lot of blank space which is something that is rarely seen in Basquiat own work which is FULL of life. Yet with these, it works. Along with this, these were all exhibited in one room together, and the fluid colour palette that runs throughout many of the pieces really helped to bring all of them together to stand as a body of work as well as an individual piece.
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Foundation Louis Vuitton: Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Basquiat used crowns and halos above the heads of figures that he deemed important, his boxing hero鈥檚, musicians, artists and poets. On the tour we got told that the crowns had three point for pets, musicians and boxing champions, yet we know that he used them in his work as credit towards his art history knowledge.
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Paris.


Foundation Louis Vuitton: Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Basquiat began making s few pieces of work around his boxing heroes of the time, these being two of them. Growing up in rough areas of New York, he learned first hand the struggles of being working class.
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Foundation Louis Vuitton: Jean-Michel Basquiat.聽
Upon being told about the Paris trip before i had decided i was going, my tutors from last year told us where we would be going, what we would be seeing and a brief itinerary for most days, and when i found out that the Foundation Louis Vuitton had an entire exhibition on for Basquiat, this is what made me know i wanted to go.聽
The exhibition definitely didn't disappoint. It was by far the highlight of my trip, The entire gallery, apart from the ground floor which was showing Egon Schieles work, consisted solely on Basquiats work and it was honestly breath taking. Each piece was huge and completely consumed the areas that they were exhibited in, which actually made for a really nice layout of the exhibition as they'd given everything plenty of room giving you chance to really take in each piece. We started out the day with a 1.5 hour tour of the place where our tour guide spoke to us about the pieces, their meanings and where about he was in life when things were made. It really helped to depict a picture in his work and you could begin to see how one thing lead to another and how they worked together as one body of work.聽
Though all of his paintings are similar in style, i loved to see how different each of his pieces actually were to one another. The gestures and the marks that he makes in his paintings with the paint are what i love the most, he works in this messy reckless way but still shows a clear image and message in each and every piece. Normally with atlas one significant figure standing out above the chaos, which is sometimes made to be himself.聽
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Centre Georges Pompidou.
Works by Wassily Kandinsky, Robert and Sonia Delauney, Henri Matisse and Mondrian. The Pompidou is an mazing gallery with two floors absolutely full of art. One floor being contemporary art and the other being historical//older work.
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