So we’re now in to week 11 of my final major project based on self-identity and childhood memory, and it’s surreal to think how far I’ve progressed within the last 3 months. This project has been hard work, not only through the taxing workload bu through the emotional investment that the subject matter has demanded […]
This final major project is drawing nearer and nearer to a close so it’s been a push to try and produce an outcome that I am satisfied with. This week I have been focusing on the large scale wall hanging from week 7. To begin with I built up the blue and red sections of
Starting off week 7 I finished last weeks wall hanging, completing the embroidery which demonstrated the memory inspiration for this particular piece. I would have liked to have fit the final line of the rhyme: “please don’t take my sunshine away”, perhaps it would have changed the sentiment to a more melancholic one. But for
This week has been primarily based on one artwork, as a development from the wall hanging fabric piece I made last week. Once again I started by making a textile base, sewn together on my machine. Then I started painting till a memory surfaced, at which point I continued to develop this narrative within the
I’m rolling a few weeks into one post this week as I’ve just returned from Easter break. I spent a large proportion of my break focusing on my contextual essay: Childhood, memory and art. I primarily looked at two key artists who have inspired me so far, Dorothea Tanning and Annette Messager. Before I went
This week has been an artistic roller coaster of sorts, a juggling act of many different parts. I started the week by finishing two projects, one of which was a soft pink heart which had a charming appearance that was slightly unsettled by the fact that it was made with two bear legs. The second
After a months research component; in which I went to two museums exploring the theme of childhood (see previous blog post), I have now begun what is to be my final major project of my art foundation. These past few weeks have been exciting ones, where I have really developed in my understandings of memory
For the research component of my Art Foundation Final Major Project I visited both the V&A Museum of Childhood and Pollock’s Toy Museum in London. It was an adventure into the enchanting stories of childhoods past, each museum offering a collection of the weird and wonderful: toys, dolls, doll houses, rattles, tea sets, puppets. If
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