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MOVEMENT

I explored the theme movement through the actions of the inner body, particularly the heart.

This topic really interested me as I found it so fascinating to explore the simple movements that happen inside us, so often forgotten about yet vital to our survival.

By firstly focusing on a list of movements, verbs such as beating, flowing, pulsing, inhaling, and expanding, each could be translated into a beautiful flow of work through shapes and colours.

I thoroughly enjoyed working through this project, as I could really see my concept strengthening and coming fully together by the end of the semester. It has thought me that movement can be conveyed in countless different ways in art, many ways I would have never expected before.

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A quick painting I did Tuesday. I wanted to interlink my painting elective with my previous two, so by using the inflatable lung (from sculpture) and the pump (from ceramics), I created a map like maze to convey the pumping movement of not only inhaling the lungs, but also the pumping from the heart. By using colours used in sculpture and painting previously, this really brought together the 3 separate elective to one for me.

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CECILY BRENNAN

‘Hinge-On for bad days’

Cecily Brennan’s work is the investigation into the tension between chaos and order. She draws inspiration from both nature and the human body.

The above pieces represent a visually linear development of her concerns, exploring as they do in the inner life of the psyche rather than the appearance of the exterior world.

I found her work really interesting as to looking at the inner body in other ways, not just as a functioning thing to keep us alive. She dives into domestic interiors, by obtaining an intense quality of the human limbs and inner muscles.

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KATHY PRENDERGAST

‘The end and the beginning’

While visiting the library with Sylvia, I found a very interesting book, 0044, which held many different interesting artists.

Kathy Prendergast creates artwork surrounding life, from start to finish. In these pieces she used pieces of her grandmothers hair to signify coming to the end of one’s life, while in the second piece (the thimble) she also used her own and her mothers hair to incorporate 3 generations.

While her work isn’t directly linked to my project, I found it really interesting how she mapped the process of life, similar to the heart pumping life from our first breath to our final.

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Today I entered into my second week of my painting elective. We returned to life drawing, except this time we moved from charcoal to acrylic. By mixing the three primary colours today, I ended up with a dark tone, a middle tone and a light tint. This made it evidently obvious where the highlights and shadows were on the models body. While the contrast looked severe while painting up close, once you stood back from the painting they complimented each other nicely. Sylvia gave us thick brushes that were large so that instead of focusing on detail, we were forced to look at the silhouette as a whole. This allowed me to use shapes and sharp blocks of colours to enhance the highs and lows of the body.

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Continuation of yesterday’s piece : I began painting the maze with pure red paint, and to add some texture and depth, I used orange and a very pale yellow in addition to the red. This made the design pop and stand out much more than before.

I am now in the process of finishing the heart and continuing the background.

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On Monday I started my painting elective. In the morning, I began by using a previous image I took with Paul in the photography studio. By focusing on the light created with torches, it gave the impression of a heart. I then took inspiration from my previous clay piece and used the maze like design to mirror the movement of blood being pumped around the body by the heart.

In the afternoon we did like drawing, which was very interesting as I had never done it before. By focusing solely on the silhouette, using the side of the charcoal gave quick sketches while also capturing depth and movement of the body.

We then did a group painting, using many colours and overlapping to create a busy and interesting piece.

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IRENE SCHAWINSKY

Although this paper piece isn’t a replica of a moving flowing thing just as a liquid, you can feel the sense of movement just by looking at it.

This piece made me really think about moving away from the physical primary image of the heart, and dive deeper into the forms that can be conveyed in a way completely away from recreating a physical object.

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SUMIT MEHNDIRATTA

While I was exploring the inhaling and exhaling of the lungs, I came across a painting that stood out to me by Sumit Mehndriratta. This piece really converted a sense of movement through the different and contrasting colours.

The melting feel it gives coincided with the melting latex due to the heat gun. At first I felt it gave a rough look to the edges but looking back on this piece I realised it just show the fragility of the lungs, which I think this piece of art implies aswel.

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JENNIFER MCCURDY

During my making of movement through cermaics, I found Jennifer McCurdys artwork extremely helping to develop the concept of expressing a flowing movement through clay. By drawing on forms of nature, she translates seaweed, spirals and fractals, and flowers into vessels that evokes a feeling of seeing into the heart of something beautiful.

She states ‘I would be defeated if I tried to copy natures patterns, I just try to think the way nature thanks and have the work flow from there’.

During my time creating my maze heart, I used her as an inspiration to try see the flowing blood and a visual movement instead of just a verb, allowing me to create bending curves and textured lines to see the moment of blood from the heart in a different light

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During my ceramics elective I also experimented with slip glaze. This was just a simple tester piece to see how to turns out and if it will be useful in future work

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During my two weeks in ceramics, I really focused in on the hearts movement.

I began this piece by replicating a face underneath the layers of skin to really focus on the actions that go on unseen to the eye. The veins, muscles and bone will be more evident once I paint or glaze this piece.

I then added this face onto a pump, as the beating of the heart is the decider of life. The drained feel to the face suggests the continuous never ended pumping of blood from the heart, never stopping until it cannot no more.

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The following day after the first piece had hardened a little, I continued it by adding a flowing movement. When I thought of blood being transferred through the veins, a light but fast flowing movement seemed represented well by curving leather hard pieces of clay emitted through the heart.

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Following the mark making, I used that as inspiration to focus on the marks and movements of the inner body instead of just replicating it. The pumping of the hard suggests a squeezing motions, so by using my hand as a primary source I created a heart being squeezed. From there, I added a maze design to act as the route the blood then takes around the body after it is pumped out by the heart.

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Following the ink marks, we created a 3D form that replicated the movements from the pages. To focus on one particular section of the page, we cut out pieces of white and black card to calm down the images. Both the white and black resulted in very different viewpoints as I found the white really amplified the ink, while the black block ground focused more on the negative space. Thought I tried overlapping the map finders, I felt there was too much going on with the two contrasting colours.

After this, I could focus on one smaller piece at a time, which I then used to create my 3D form

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This morning I started the clay elective. In the morning, we learnt about mark making by writing down a list of verbs that surrounds our project and making ink stains to replicate them. By starting off with the verbs to drip, to drain, to expand, to flow and to inhale I created three sheets of marks which we later used to make paper structures.

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Adding different materials really helped to obtain a completely different shape of the body, expanding from the strict lines and outlines. The addition of more light sources while using slow shutter speed created fantastic shapes and movements, and by flipping and inverting them they came out very well