Research Assignment

Mind Map

Super nice music vid

Coco Solids Crime Fighters music video.  Directed by Alex Sakowski.

Sweet graphics and use of colour.

Semester One Work

Vertical Sculpture

The brief was to construct a vertical sculpture primarily using clay and secondarily using wood or metal.  I love working with metal! so fun.  And i was surprised to really enjoy working with white clay. So many possibilities!  I wld like to make a cast before the end of the year for futher work..

The heart was made with a wooden bump mold and the space frame was lots of soldering.

Product/Lighting Design

Brief was to design a light using polypropline that could be flatpacked.

I decided I liked the asthetic of clean sharp geometric lines rather than the more organic round form the polypropline naturally took.  Althought the finished lamp looks reasonably simple, it took me 2 weeks of wrestling with the materials, scoring the plastic, experimenting with folding, measurements and bindings to get to this point.  I like it but I would like to secure the piece better to the base and originally I had the idea of geometric forms/ science/ maths.. which remotely stretches to relate to my theme of faith.. As at the start of the year I wanted a broad concept/ theme.. so was encompasing science, maths etc within what people have faith in.  This second semester I am refining that quite a bit to more religious/spiritual references.

EXHIBITION : FATIH IN..

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Brian Randolf: Uncharted Waters

Artist:  Brian Randolf from New York Adorned.

Uncharted Waters Exhibition, 2008.

Pen on life sized photographs – series by selected New York tattoo artists.

My last two blog posts are both personal to me, relating to faith.  This tattoo artists is one of my favourites in the world, he creates beautiful geometric works that are very unique.  Tattooing for me personally is a way to etch into the body, lifes turns, significant events, decisions, beliefs, personal asthetic and faith.  Tattooing traditionally was a right of passage and is still used in that manner for many today.  Although its become more common and popular there is a deep history and meaning to this art form.

Niki White : Portraits

Niki White

Portraits of my daughter Anataia age 3, 2008.

Colour Photograph, 16 x 20, Private Collection.

Taken with a Canon 40D & Bowen Lighting

This is a series of photographs I took of Anataia last year.  The studio setup just fitted in our lounge and we had a fun time playing round together.  I’ve included this in my exhibition because Anataia gives me faith in life and love.  Children change your world in such a profound way with their pure nature, raw true emotion.  Blessed.

Damian Hirst : For the Love of God, 2007

Damian Hirst, For the Love of God, 2007

Life sized, diamond encrusted skull.  Cast from an 18th-century skull.

For the Love of God – For the Love of God is a platinum cast of a human skull encrusted with 8,601 flawless diamonds.  Weighing 1,106.18 carats.   Set on the forehead is a large, pear-shaped light fancy pink diamond, called the Skull Star Diamond, reportedly worth $4.2 million alone.  The teeth are from the original skull.  Hirst financed the project himself and estimates it cost between 10 and 15 million. It is priced at $99 million, making it the priciest contemporary artwork ever made.

This well known work by Hirst is stunningly extravagant and beautiful.  There are quite a lot of examples of bejeweled skulls in archaeology, for example Mexican skulls encrusted in turquoise.  Here Hirst creates one of extreme decadence .  This is a beautiful commentry on death (hirsts signature theme), beauty, materialism, value and ritual.  It also has an element of humour as the title of the work was inspired by Hirst’s mother who asked her son, ‘For the love of God, what are you going to do next?’

Hirst said of his work,  ‘Death is such a heavy subject, it would be good to make something that laughed in the face of it’. However with the ongoing controversy over blood diamonds from Africa, Hirst has felt the weight of creating something people may have actually died because of.  ‘Thats when you stop laughing,’ Hirst has said.. ‘I felt like Oppenheimer or something. What have I done?’

Akiane: Beginning

Akaine

Beginning

Acrylic on canvas, Age 13 (2008) 48 x 60 inch.

This girl has been selling paintings since she was 6 years old.  She is an incredibly talented artist, writing poetry and painting works inspired by her faith.  She references nature, children, life, faith and spirituality.

Mike Lewis: Christ Eyes

Mike Lewis

Christ Eyes, 41 x 51 cm Giclee Print, Private Collections.

I chose this piece because its stunningly beautiful.  When I did some more research about the artist I found out he is a deeply religious young American that primarily paints Jesus.  I’m not religious personally, definately more on the metaphysical side of things.  But I’m really interested in religious art (if you can’t already tell). This guy has a really interesting style, using his hands alot, brushes, throws paint while in a focused meditative like state and what results are these large bold works.  He has been doing painting projects in the community, on the streets and subways of New York and in the mountains of Idaho.

Edward Munch. Madonna, 1895.

Edward Munch (1863 – 1944)

Madonna, 1895.

Oil on canvas 91 x 70.5 cm.  National Gallery, Oslo

Munch’s first Madonna art work was a black and white lithograph in 1895.  During the next seven years, Munch hand-coloured several impressions, as seen above.

I love Mother Mary, Madonna art works, the symbology of the sacred heart, light, faith, calm and strength they portray.  I also like the contrast of Mary images that are innocent and ‘holy’ compared to the more kali like darker images that some artists focus on.