niamhabraham

[niamhabraham]

EXHIBITION  TEXT OF MY FINAL EXAM OUTCOME

[niamhabraham]

EXHIBITION OF MY FINAL EXAM OUTCOME

[niamhabraham]

The most powerful weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed

Steve Biko

I like this quote because it correlates with the anti-racism final piece shoot I took. I find this quote very powerful, because it was said by Steve Biko, a South African anti- apartheid activist, who fought against the racism and injustice in his country. In this quote, he says that the mind of a victim of discrimination is a powerful weapon for an oppressor, and I think this is true. This quote inspires me to march against racism and voice my concern in the rise in hate crimes in London.

[niamhabraham]

 ASSEMBLED - FINAL PIECES

[niamhabraham]

BARBRA KRUGER INFLUENCE - ASSEMBLED

Barbra Kruger is pop artist, who creates art that challenges the patriarchy and depicts her political views. She applies her graphic abilities with her photographs to create eye catching images with captions that reflect her point of view or a range of topics, such as: Materialism, Consumerism, Feminism, Politics and more.

I like Barbra Kruger’s work because it is bold. It makes a statement about the way she views the world and the problems she believes are important, and need to be recognised. I find her work inspiring, and like her use of old vintage adverts with plain, blunt, honest text. I plan on making my work bold like Barbra Kruger’s, and will try to make my work make a statement about the injustice of racism in our society.

[niamhabraham]

MARCHING PEOPLE SHOOT INTENTION & EXPERIMENTATION INTENTION

I will capture portraits of a range of people speaking, walking or standing, imitating being at a protest. I will shoot from an eye level vantage point, and make my subjects do a range of poses for variation – mainly walking in different directions. I will add contrast and saturation to the images, focusing on making my subjects look bright and stand out, but not to strange or over saturated.

[niamhabraham]

STEPS TO CREATING A GALAXY:

•           Document (width: 1550 pixels, height: 870 pixels, resolution: 150 pixel/inch)

•           Fill in black (Alt Delete)

•           Filter – Noise – Add Noise (400%, Gaussian, monochromatic)

•           Copy layer, click eyeball icon, and click on background.

•           Filter – Blur – Gaussian Blur (0.5pixels)

•           Levels (Ctrl L) (200, 0.42)

•           Top layer visible, edit on top layer

•           Filter – Blur –Gaussian Blue (2 pixels)

•           Levels – 170, 1.00, 172.

•           Filter – Blur – Gaussian Blur (1 pixel)

•           Window – Channel –Little circle icon

•           Delete layer – Make new layer

•           Ctrl Delete (Ctrl D)

•           Layer, Styles, Outer glow, Colour: (white). Blend mode: normal. Size: 10 pixels.

•           Merge Layer (Ctrl E), new layer, Fill black.

•           Filter – Render – Clouds – blend mode – colour dodge

•           New layer icon

•           Pick colour - brush tool – Size: 700. Hardness: 0%. Opacity: 10%

•           F5, click smoothing (only box ticked)

•           Blur – Gaussian Blur

[niamhabraham]

KIM RUGG EXPERIMENTATION

In this piece of experimentation I used a quote from Malcolm X, and then experimented with different styles of typography. After this, I replicated Rugg’s randomized style, but did not like my result, and will not be using her style of randomized text in my final piece. In my final piece, I want my message of protest and assembling to be clear, and I do not feel that her collage style helps create this effect. However, I will experiment further with text when responding to Hannah Höch’s collage style, but take out phrases from magazines to create a constructional assemblage.

[niamhabraham]

KIM RUGG INFLUENCE - ASSEMBLED

Kim Rugg is a Canadian collage artist, who cuts up newspaper, comics and other household items, and reconstructs them into their original shape, but with unreadable text. The dismantling of these newspapers creates a feeling of confusion for the viewer, and diminishes the message of the object to nonsensical text and the value of the product.

I like her work because of her use of assemblage to create confusion to her view, but also to make the person double take when looking at her work, because from afar her work looks ordinary, but when you take a closer look, her nonsensical text with no real meaning, sends its own message on her view of media and the first world products we purchase.

The use of text in her work interest me, and I will briefly explore with using text, in logical sentence and in jumbled sentences, to see if captioning my work gives it a more powerful and memorable affect.

[niamhabraham]

DEUTSCHE BÖRSE PHOTOGRAPHY FOUNDATION PRIZE 2017 – EXHIBITION REVIEW

I attended the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize Exhibition, and saw the artwork of artists who were shortlisted: Sophie Calle, Awoiska van der Molen, Dana Lixenberg, Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs.  However, Sophie Calle’s ‘Les Autobiographies’ inspired me the most.

The theme of the exhibition was relationships and grief, and work I have uploaded from the exhibition really reflects that theme. The works contain text from the artist themselves, about her experience with the grief of losing her mother, pet and father in a short time period, and the images are not boldly edited or oversaturated, which I think reflects the raw emotion she feels due to her overwhelming grief.

The displaying of her work had inspired me to incorporate text into my final piece, and present my final piece with some important statement, quote or message. I want my message to be clear like the work she displayed, and to make people think about the meaning of my artwork. Overall, I thought her work, and the exhibition itself, was beautiful and inspiring.

[niamhabraham]

  HANNAH HÖCH EXPERIMENTATION

I did not like my experimentation outcomes because the images looked pixelated. I do like using text, to caption the iconic image of MLK, with a statement relevant to the marches today

[niamhabraham]

HANNAH HÖCH RESPONSE

[niamhabraham]

HANNAH HÖCH INFLUENCE – ASSEMBLED

Hannah Höch is a German photo montage artist, who was born in 1889 and was most famous for her collages and montages using magazines, journals and fashion publications.

Höch’s work is heavily influenced by the Dada art movement, and is filled with satirical and nonsensical elements and anti-war symbolism. Each of her works creates a statement about modern capitalist society, expressing her rejection of it through illogical, odd montages.

I really like her style of collage, and what to experiment with cutting up images from magazines is the same way she does, but also using text from magazines and creating powerful statements.

[niamhabraham]

FINAL OUTCOME IN PROGRESS 7

[niamhabraham]

FINAL OUTCOME IN PROGRESS 6

[niamhabraham]

FINAL OUTCOME IN PROGRESS 5

[niamhabraham]

FINAL OUTCOME IN PROGRESS 4