Origins Project

Drawing Workshop - The Art Of Editing and Selecting

During this workshop, we were given the task of trying to refine and edit our pictures, taking things we liked from the pictures and pushing that idea further. My main focus on the project is people and their journeys. These are some original sketches I have done. The other picture being one idea that I was experimenting with. I decided to trace the original sketch, turning it into a basic shaped drawing. I then added colours over the top using different tools, in this picture I used watercolours. I plan on pushing this idea further and further in order to create brand new marks and techniques and a whole new set of drawings.

Origins Project

Trip to Liverpool Biennial

  As part of our first brief 'Journeys', we took a trip to the Liverpool Biennial. This is a huge exhibition of art, placed in different locations all over Liverpool. The first gallery i visited was the 'Open Eye Gallery', where i had never been before. The gallery only featured two exhibitions, one by Kohei Yoshiyuki and another by Mark Morrisroe. 
When walking into the glass building, the first piece i saw was 'Love Hotel' by Kohei Yoshiyuki. Which is photographs of CCTV images from a pay-by-the-hour hotel. The pictures feature couples engaging in sexual activity. Which are in turn shown on televisions. I found my self drawn into this first piece. The graininess of the pictures made it near impossible to see what was really happening, the only thing visible was the outlines of the bodies, 
almost like shadows. 

The second piece of Kohei Yoshiyuki work i saw was called 'The Park'. This was an exhibition with a twist, something i have never experienced before. We were taken into a completely pitch black room, only a few people at a time and given a small torch. 

The pictures were all on the walls, using the light to see what they were. The pictures, again, featured couples 


engaging in sexual activity, this time there were spectators, watching and joining in. This captured the unseen activities that happen at night. The idea of having a torch with you to view the pictures, made it feel like you are just discovering these people, almost like you part of the spectating. I instantly, just like the 'Love Hotel' piece, felt drawn to these pictures. They are very raw pictures of things that you don't realise happen. 
After researching about this piece of work, I found that this underground society was stumbled upon accidentally by Kohei Yoshiyuki, which in turn he  started visiting more often and became a spectator himself, giving him the chance to capture these raw photographs. 
The journey aspect i took from this piece was the fact that Kohei Yoshiyuki stumbled across this hidden side of the park, by taking a journey. This shows that any journey could lead to something unexpected, as if no journey can be determined. 

Summer Brief - Kites

'Summer Brief - Kites'

During the summer, i had a short brief set called 'kites'. The theme was to create a kite, using any materials, any shape and any size. I decided to create whats called a 'Chapi-Chapi' kite, which is shaped like a diamond. I chose the media of knit, using the colours, red, white and blue. The reason i chose these colour was that my topic subject was Great Britain. I wanted to use this theme as Britain has been in the news a lot for all the amazing things that have happened this year, such as the Royal Wedding, the Olympics/Paralympics and the Diamond Jubilee. 

Art and Design Foundation

'Illustrations'

These are some drawings I have done focusing on shoes, these being converse, vans and brogues. I tried tried to pick shoes that many people would instantly recognise. I created these drawings using a pen, as I find pencil quite difficult to draw with.

Art and Design Foundation

'Abstract Photography'

Some shots from my ‘Abstract Photography’ brief. I liked the idea of photo blurring and not being able to quite see what is really there. The idea of identity is taken away by doing this. The model is my younger sister. I decided to add colour to them, as I thought that the colour confused the picture even more taking away the true identity of the picture.

Art and Design Foundation

'Get Thee To A Nunnery'

These are scans from my sketchbook, which is taken from my ‘Inspired Transformation’ brief. My inspiration was Ophelia, from the play by William Shakespeare ‘Hamlet’. I took this character as I thought I could re-create her madness in art form. I enjoyed this brief as I felt like I had freedom with my work. The  idea of madness let me have free reign over all my work, I had no pattern to stick to and no structure to stay by.