Art O'Clock

For anyone that's read my last post, it probably makes a little more sense why my Instagram page is filled with strange excerpts of dada poetry, wreckless scrawlings and light drawings. I know: poetry! Through a lot of research and experimentation, I've begun to refine my ideas into imagery that I like the look of. Honestly, I'm relieved. Conceptual art is extremely challenging to understand, never mind to actually produce. It's required me to quite literally do a Henry Krokatsis and lose all of my ego, and it's one of the most challenging things I've done! On the topic of conceptual art, I've been having a lot of debates recently about firstly what it is, what it means, and the importance of it. For anyone that doesn't have a clue what I'm talking about, you must watch BBC's Who'a Afraid of Conceptual Art, I found it on YouTube and I found it really useful in fully getting my head around understanding artworks, and also applying it in my o

When I say I've delved deep for this project: you have absolutely no idea. I mentioned in my previous post about letting go and having fun with this project, and it's only JUST becoming possible for me to do so. It was a lot harder to say than to do, worryingly and surprisingly! This idea of allowing things to go wrong, the relish of being free to make mistakes: it's all rather foreign to me. Maybe I'm just speaking for myself, but the truth is it's a lot harder to let go than people say it is. In fact, I've found it near impossible. However finally, we have lift off. I knew that FMP was supposed to be challenging, but believe me, the stress I have encountered in the early stages of this project was unbearable: trying to pick my brain for the most PERFECT theme, the MOST COMPLEX concept, the BIGGEST ideas - I quite frankly drove myself insane before I realised that there are no perfect ideas, there are no right answers and there is no wrong. I realised that

 For my next project, I've set myself my biggest challenge of being fun. As contradictory as this sounds, I am finding it near impossible! A lot of my ideas come from serious places like women's rights, gender roles, consumerism, racism, which are all rather serious and powerful topics. For me, the biggest challenge is to loosen up. And in order to do this I decided to become a child again. Children have the most innocent and perfect view of the world: sheltered from prejudice, money, the pressure of knowing what to do with your life.. children have the most beautiful and most honest perception of the world. Pablo Picasso was well known for his believe that "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up", which I am definitely relating to at the moment. Jeff Koon's Swan Inflatable To say the pressure of university, growing up and having a career is terrifying me would be a massive understatement. Will I be good enough? Ha

After all the stress of applying to university, the interviews, finishing my pathway project, I've finally had some time to get back into writing. And it feels excellent! I thought I would dedicate this post to my last project, A Word A Day: Feminism. I would definitely say this project was one of the most enlightening and exciting projects I have ever done mostly because I was able to delve into which ever processes and techniques I wanted to. I have always been very much a fine artist, and I don't think this will change any time soon. However, being determined to push my own limits, I experimented with 3D methods for the first time and have become enamoured with the world of Plaster of Paris and dental alginate! I began my project with experimenting with the power of printing and recording and one of my most successful (and memorable) discoveries was printing my nipple. Believe it or not, this opened up a whole different route for my pathway stage and I think that's wh

What's better than to begin a project with a fabulous photoshoot of your best friend? Absolutely nothing, in my opinion, and it's usually how most of my projects begin. However, this photoshoot wasn't as typical as past projects. My desire to produce serious, mature and powerful work led me to the conclusion that I needed to conduct a nude photoshoot. This isn't something I've done before, but as strange as it sounds it's something I'd definitely do again! I can't describe how lucky I am to have a friend not only beautiful and photogenic, but also confident enough to face the challenge of posing nude in front of the camera. Despite being advised otherwise, I knew that I wanted Bella to be completely nude, in other words, no bra or drapey fabric, which is what most student artists tend to use in sensitive photoshoots. I was determined that I would go against this simply because I want to be mature artist and I think it would be extremely hypocritical to

According to NBC news America, fine art happens to be the most pointless major to have. Which is why I am obviously pursuing it at degree level! Not to mention the uncomfortable look of people who ask what I will do with this degree, what job I'll get and then follow on to joke about me being the next Van Gogh. No disrespect Vincent, but it's not exactly what I had in mind. In my next chapter of the art foundation course, I chose the fine art pathway with the brief title 'A Word a Day'. Initially, I was very apprehensive because I have never and have never intended to use words in my artwork. It's something very foreign to me and I even find it a little bit patronising because I had always held the belief that great pieces of artwork don't need the meaning or emphasis of words in order for them to have an impact; in fact this could sometimes take away from the beauty of the piece itself. However daunting this challenge of incorporating words may be, I tried not