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Project statement

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Last 5 final images Resolved Artwork

The Context of what this painting is and its context are on other posts.

Above is the Painting as it was for a while. below is the process of finishing the painting at home over the weekend before the Hand-in.

Adding a yellow Layer to finish off the work.

Above are some close-ups of the painting, to show the development of all the paint layers that make the abstract image I wanted.

The Painting Finished at Home. I almost decided the leave the green railway tracks as green without anything on top. I added the blue to add the last bit of texture to the Artwork.

Artwork installed in Studio Space.

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first 5 Final images of Resolved Artwork.

Above: The composition that inspired the Final development painting.

The Final development Screen-prints.

a screen-print with a charcoal sketch of a railway track. this was inspired by the fruit market exhibition "Songs about roses" by Ibrahim Mahama.

The Charcoal drawings displayed their, the artwork was also about the use of trains on colonial and post-colonial times.

below are my own photos I took on the trip to Edinburgh for Process and Inquiry.

All thr good screen-prints I have made. the final development painting on the left. drawn and painted ones at the top.

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A large negative photocopy of one of my smaller paintings. I decided that rather then display the painting that doesn't add anything to the development, and will take up space better used for better work, I will photocopy it and make it into a new image.

Above; I glued the stencil form a flick painting development on a screen-print onto the top to make and abstract performance painting collage.

The studio getting make for assessment.

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Studio filled with Visual Language work.

My best sreenprints on display with the final development painting made from them. and other stuff.

Back wall. with the two canvas panel paintings, Charcoal drawings and large railway track collage. and tire track artwork.

post colonialism map work and more tire track art.

I was going to put this up. but i has been to badly damaged and dirtied by sitting on the floor and having other artwork taped to it while it was hung on the wall behind the gold foil. so I cut it to pieces and hung the "Index" on the other side of the wall with the maps on it.

It marks the Start of my Artwork, the Index workshop Artwork that has not been re-used in new artwork.

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Screen-printing development. Painting a Final development.

To develop from my screen-prints. I have decided to paint the composition of one of my best screen-prints with a piece of acetate layered on top.

Like the Screen-prints, this painting combines two different parts of my artwork. the Railway drawings made using the wheels of a toy car, and the flick paintings and flag drawings I have done previously. combining both into the same composition using two colours I've used constantly and loved to use together for years. Light Blue and Yellow

The source image i used. when i put the paper on top i wanted to paint the composition. so that's what I have done.

I started it in the studio in the morning and got the top and bottom blue areas done by mixing light blue paint and white in diffrent amounts to made a tonal blue composition reflecting the screen-print. I decided to paint on a canvas as I envisioned this to be a final piece and so I could use masking tape.

At some point the lights were turned off so someone can use the OHPs. So i used a torch to continue my painting, taking these photographs that show the texture of the paint and the canvas as I painted the yellow section.

Below between the finishes blue section and the yellow, is a section where the tape was that i was going to paint yellow but I decided to paint in the blue, since these were and still is my favourite parts of the composition.

The painting before I had to focus on Process and Inquiry work. it sat on the drying rack for two weeks.

The painting After I took it home to finish it. it sat for a week while I did Process and Inquiry work placement work.

I then added the rest of round blue things that represent they stones under the railway track.

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Ceramic 3D artwork

Paster cast i made by pushing my pens into clay to make a mould, then pouring this plaster into the mould to create these impressions of pens. I didn't pour a lot of plaster in so it fell apart after as I removed the clay, the clay left a thin layer of itself in this photo that I spend an hour scraping off, smoothing out the plaster in the process.

The meaning of the pens is they are the excavated remains of the pens used by colonialist countries when they arbitrarily drew up the borders of their Colonial possessions before any competing colonialist nations could get them. These nations include the British empire, German Empire, America, France, Portugal and the Ottoman Empire and more splitting apart and devising the complex and intertwined ethnic communities that have lived there long before the colonialists arrived.

The drawing of Africa's borders took place in a massive conference in Berlin in 1885.

most of these arbitrary drawn borders drawn up in the 1800s still exist today, this colonial rule forced a divide between many ethnic and social groups and caused a lot of civil conflicts. the 1994 Rwanda Genocide.

The pens being un-earthed in the Post colonial period where they were layed down after the drawing.

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The plaster cast after being cleaned and smoothed out.

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Posy Colonialism link: South African Flag Painting

after my other canvas panel painting inspired by Jackson Pollock. Soon after that I began making another one depicting a very abstracted south Africa flag, painted most of it before I had to move onto other things and I forgot about it for a while.

I took it home while setting up for the Process and Inquiry assessment. I added dark red at the top and a florescent yellow to finish the flag.

photographed on the floor as this was the only part of the house with good natural light..

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Use of a sheet of acetate to change the hue of my screen prints, turning the vibrant blue to a bright green, and the black to a dark blue.

In the context of my work, these prints are the final developments of my Visual language work. the combination of two different parts of my Visual language work that I kept separate until now, the railway track works and the rest. the abstract colourful paintings of paint thrown against coloured paper and the flag drawings ive posted about a while ago.

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Screen-printing workshop

on the 11th November was a monoscreenprinting workshop.

in this workshop I used traces from other visual language work to make a series of developments.

I made 12 screen-prints, each slightly different. the graphite marks are made from a trace of tire tracks i have used to make other pieces. the text and drawing of a bus were improve in the moment between prints and don't add anything of value to my work.

The tire tracks are what keeps my work related to post colonialism.

The railway also does this as well as developing my previous railway artwork about my train ride to college. these prints are the first time both subject matters are together.

above are the best four prints.

i plan on doing more with these in the future

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Homage to Scotrail.

Since a lot of my art is to do with the train I get to and from college, I decided to make a painting about Scotrail themselves, and my experience with using them everyday.

Above of the Painting, I made an X shaped stencil and then flicked white paint onto the stencil, and onto the area of blue painted paper below.

Once that eventually dried. I used the white paint, and a letter stencil to Paint the Caption. "SCOTRAIL. USUALLY LATE." with "SCOTRAIL" underlined with a thick line of white paint to create a gap between the lines of text and to use up the white paint I had left.

Different edits I made to play with the colour and saturation.

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A while ago I used a toy car to crrate the index of three train tracks on three random A4 sheets of paper, supposed to be linked together to form one cohesive piece. its taken me this long to actully get around to doing this.

The Gray paint represents the ballast stones the train track sits on top/inside of. these three train tracks represent the three parallel tracks that make up the majority of the route between Paisley Gilmour Street station in my native Paisley, to Glasgow Central station form which I walk up to the college where I made these drawings, glued them together and took these photos.

The use of railways in my artwork was also started by the Edinburgh trip when I was starting my creative process. and the Ibrahim Mahama Exhibition in the fruit market, a gallery that's suspended above Waverly train station.

https://www.fruitmarket.co.uk/event/ibrahim-mahama-songs-about-roses/

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Spray of Paint/Blood?

here I continued my technique of flicking paint onto paper.

this time it was more thought out. I chose to use red paint on white paper to symbolise blood being sprayed over the paper.

This ideas was inspired by the Art theory of Post Colonialism I was studying at the time of making this painting. A theory I have chosen to make as a theme for my project.

It symbolises the blood that has been spilled on post colonial wars that have been Faught in former colonial territories in Asia and Africa, most of these smaller conflicts being indirectly linked to the cold war as well. as in many of these small wars, The USSR and USA backed and indirectly supported opposing factions on these conflicts.

The map in the background links to the fact that colonialist nations drew up the borders of their colonies with no regard to the native peoples demographics. Causing a lot of displacement and conflict as a result. The map itself was for a different project I had done and left there.

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I came up with the idea of making more paintings of paint flicked off the paint brush onto paper. this time using stencils to make shapes.

using coloured paper and a printer paper stencil I propped the paper against a cutting board.

the reason I used the outline of the land rover is that was a shape I've used a lot in my work, and i used the toy car to make a lot of my early works in this module.

I then chose black paint since black goes well against yellow and to add to the monochrome half of my artwork.

after reoving the stencil i was glad the shape of the car can still be seen, after alot of the watery paint soaked into the stencil, still a great piece of development and this is only the first one.

The second painting is the opposite of the first, the outline of the car is the stencil and the background is covered in black paint spots.

this use of positive negative shape is inspired by the concept of "Notan" art. an art style I have extensive experience in from the work I did in my HND.

Both placed side by side. the positive negative shape is clear.

something improvised that happened on accident. I taped the used stencil on black paper, then moved it on top a red painted canvas that's part of another piece im doing, this was accidental but i kept it there and photographed it since it looks very nice.

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Editing the colours of my previous paintings to see how the colours change.

I had the most success with this quick and easy development method using the pieces of paint flicked onto A4 pieces of card

I do plan on some point making larger scale paintings like this, ill just need to clear a massive space in my studio to do them in first.

Original pieces for context

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These are two poems I wrote about my Atwork/ Art practice in response to the last part of the 3D folded forms workshop.

the Larger one in red pen being the best amd most thought out of the two.

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more photos of my drawings of railway tracks. first i still used the tire tracks of my toy car, rolling them on different sheets of paper that were to hand on my desk, planning on laying them out to make one coherent composition of railway track.

This use of railway tracks relates to me as I use the train to travel to college and when visiting Art galleries in Glasgow and Edinburgh.

They relate to the themes and theories I have been studying as part of my course. They relate to Post-colonialism as the British empire build rail infrastructure in all of the colonies to move supplies, raw materials, goods and people between inland areas and the ports and harbours.

Many of these now former colonies still use this infrastructure, others completely abandoned the railways and/or the machines used on them during the colonial period.

My post colonialism theme was directly inspired by an Exhibition I visited at the Fruit market Art Gallery in Edinburgh in a class trip.