Floor plan

'Palette and Pallet'

The floor plan for 3 pallets and a plinth 

Experimenting with order

Experimenting with the order

Cut my selection of pallets down to 3. It may go back up to 4

Buildings with a splash of colour

Barn Pieces by Maya Hayuk

I found this image online at pinterest.com

This is one of my photographs. This building is located in a very run down area of Bradford.

These two photos are proof that a bit of colour can brighten any scene.

The Importance of Colour

'Colour is an important part of our everyday lives. We judge how healthy we, our crops and our food are, with the help of colour. Our choice of decoration, furnishing and clothing is strongly influenced by colour. Colour is involved in almost every aspect of our lives.'

www.azom.com/news.aspx?newsID=860

David Novitz

'It is a matter of opening ourselves to new ideas.'

Being open minded is quite important for anyone viewing contemporary art. If art is labelled as controversial, this could be because the audience has not opened themseleves to the work

The art world is constantly changing and sometimes it takes the viewer longer to adapt to the changes.

I believe that sometimes questioning art and doubting an artist's work is what keeps the art world fresh and exciting.

Carl Andre - The Saatchi Collection

Art of Our Time

The Saatchi Collection 1

By Peter Schjeldahl (1984)

Carl Andre

Furrow (1981)

Red Cedar

 Beautiful wooden piece from Andre. While the wood looks relatively new and clean, there are still some beautiful natural marks on the surface.

Louise Bourgeois' fine words

'Colour is stronger than language. It's a subliminal communication.'

Louis Bourgeois

If you are passionate enough about colour, then sometimes, words are not necessary.

Doris Salcedo - Artist

There were an impressive 1600 chairs used in this piece of work by Doris Salcedo.

She is one of my 10 artists/articles in my visual bibliography.

Like myself, Salcedo uses wooden found objects because it is a material that really shows off wear and tear. The scuffs, scratches and weather damage cannot be hidden very easily on wood.

History is very important and excites a lot of people. An unknown history could be even more exciting; it lets people's imaginations work. A found object should show history; an unknown history that most probably will never be fully discovered.

I find my wooden pallets all over, usually abandoned at the side of a road or leaning against a building. There is no telling where this object has been or where it will end up after its gallery experience.

Visual Bibliography

Finishing off my visual bibliography to go alongside my work. I have chosen ten articles/quotes/images that have influenced and helped me to progress with my work.

1. Disputes about art (Article)
2. Barnett Newman (Blog)
3. Colour after Klein (Book)
4. The colour wheel (Image)
5. Doris Salcedo (Image/Artist)
6. Marcel Duchamp (Image/Artist)
7. Jessica Stockholder (Image/Artist)
8. What is art? Leo Tolstoy (Book)
9. What's so funny? (Article)
10. The Better Late Than Never Anne Truitt Review (Article)

Pallets - Multi coloured

Multi coloured pallets

Come as a pair

Picked the colours out a hat

I think that these colours may be too plastic looking or too in the viewers face. Or maybe the others aren't in the viewers face enough 

Pallet - Blue & Orange

Blue & Orange

I quite like this one for its simplicity. The planks of woods are all quite evenly spaced making it easy on the eye.

Pallets everywhere

Since I started using paletts in my work, I seem to be seeing them everywhere. Maybe, I'm not the only one that can see the objects fine qualities.

Degree Show Opening Times

1^st June – Private view
2^nd & 3^rd Open
Closed Monday 4^th & Tuesday 5^th (Bank holiday)
6^th to 8^th Open
Weekend – Closed
11^th to 15^th Open

Our show address is:
Greestone Building,
Lindum Road,
Lincoln,
Lincolnshire,
LN2 1PF

Degree show poster

The official poster for the upcoming third year degree show

Pallets - Green & Red

Green & Red

Richard Mutt - Justify my work

'Mr Mutt's fountain is not immoral, that is absurd, no more than a bathtub is immoral. It is a fixture that you see everyday in plumbers shop windowss. Whether Mr Mutt with his own hands made the fountain has no importance. He chose it. He took an ordinary article of life, placed it so that its useful significance disappeared under the new title and point of view - created a new thought for that object.'

'The Richard Mutt Cast', The Blind Man, New York no.2, May 1917


The last sentence of this statement is exactly what I have done with my pallets. The pallet's useful significance has disappeared and under the work title 'Palette and Pallet', there is now a new thought for the object.

Elective - The deer

The Deer

David Hockney - The Art of Seeing

Last night BBC1 aired 'David Hockney, The Art of Seeing.' This was an interview with Hockney, held by Andrew Marr. The programme discussed the artist's newest exhibition; 'A Bigger Picture.'

Hockney is one of the first big artists to use an Apple iPad to create art. This exhibiton is based on the seasons. His bright computerised works fill the large room. They are bright and make a bold statement. One can't help but be caught up in the colour.

Hockney speaks about nature and the seasons with such passion. One line I felt I must quote was this; "Look harder, it's all still there..It's very very beautiful."

Pallet - Purple & Yellow

Purple & Yellow

Pallet - Blue & Orange

Blue & Orange

Water wash

Disputes About Art. David Novitz

'Art has a history and a theory becuase of the role it plays in human lives.'


Disputes About Art. David Novitz

Elective - Dog print

Elective - Squirrel

Squirrel track printed on a found stick and attached to the animals natural habitat.

Elective - Animal shoes

http://blog.makezine.com/2012/04/04/shoes-that-leave-animal-tracks/
Found online; shoes that leave animal tracks. Very impressive creation from Canadian artist Maskull Lasserre.

Wooden pallets

Like in the mini show, I am going to use found objects and in particular; wooden pallets. This is going to be quite a task because pallets aren't found just anywhere and are extremely heavy. I am going to have to be looking in the right place, with equipment to help me carry it.

I will make sure I am only taking pallets that have either been abandoned or if there is someone to ask then I will of course ask permission.

Final homophone

My final piece is going to be a homophone. With my love for found objects and colour, I couldn't pick two more perfect words than: palette and pallet.

Homophone photographs

More photographs of homophones

2 photographs of homophones

Photographs of homophones. Interesting to see how quickly people can guess the word

Elective - Local animals

I want to look at the animals that are in my region. Everyone knows what the animal looks like, but are they aware of their print.

I am going to pick three animals: deer, dogs and squirrels and then use found objects to display their foot prints. Found objects are now a big part of my studio work, so I think it is important to use them in my elective too.

Collection of homophones

Few examples of homophones:

Boy   Buoy

Brake   Break

Brews   Bruise

Czech  Check   Cheque

Carat   Caret   Carrot   Karat

Cent   Scent  Sent

Flour   Flower

Greece   Grease

I want to play with these words and create work using a bit of light humour

Homophone

Homophone
Oxford Definition

noun

·                     each of two or more words having the same pronunciation but different meanings, origins, or spelling (e.g. new and knew).

·                      each of a set of symbols denoting the same sound or group of sounds.

Grammar - Two (or more) words which sound the same but which are written differently. For example: meet/meat/mete right/write/rite

Pink crates

Crates. Painted and left



Postcard auction ending in 2 days

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Raffle tickets - degree show

We will be selling raffle tickets to anyone interested over Easter. It is a £1 for a strip and there are some brilliant prizes. Please purchase a strip to help us to raise money for the degree show. Thank you :)

The Pink Box

Delicate. Left for months. Not moved, not noticed.

Look at the shape. Look at the texture. Notice

Look at the shape. Look at the texture. No one looks. I first noticed this piece because of it's awkward balance and damaged structure.

Elective - Ray Mears

"Life has little to offer that is more challenging than finding the trail of a wild animal and following it to the animal itself."

Ray Mears

The animal footprint is a massive part of their identity, it seperates that particular animal from the others. I am interested in the foot print because of their interesting shapes, individuality and their attachment to that particular animal.

Family Portrait

Family Portrait

Animals & Art. Can you identify the animals?

Documenting the unobvious

I make the unobvious, obvious. I find objects that others see daily but don’t notice and paint them a bright, noticeable colour. The object isn’t moved, it is left in its natural habitat. This is in the hope that others will start to take notice of the unobvious. I use bright pink paint as it is stereotypically seen as a pretty colour and being an uncommon colour in the street, it makes the object visible.

Graffiti Art - Adam Neate

Graffiti Art - Nicholas Ganz

ADAM NEATE -  'Adam Neate lives and works in the heart of London’s East End. His project, Left and Found, involved hanging more than 2,00 canvases and cardboard paintings on existing nails. He then left them for passers-by to take away with them. In his gallery project, What’s the Magic Word?’, he exhibited 200 canvases and stickers. The exhibition was free and people could help themselves to the pictures. This is his interpretation of being a ‘free artist’. In more recent projects he has collected pieces of wood and cardboard from the streets. He photographs the object he leaves, then exhibits them on his website.'

None permanent work that is only kept alive through the use of documentation and photographs. I’m using photographs to document part of my work.

Graffiti Art - MAC

Graffiti Art
Street Art from 5 Continents
Nicholas Ganz
Thames & Hudson (2004)

MAC - 'You do it because you want to do it, sometimes taking a lot of risks. It's not about making money and there aren't any rules. It's true freedom of expressions.' (pg73)

Mac paints many objects. I am particularly interested in his work on 'unnoticed' objects: shop signs, bins, a street post etc.

Found objects or graffiti?

While some may argue that when I paint found objects that it is a form of graffiti, I disagree. The objects I use don’t belong to anyone and aren’t technically being damaged. I am simply trying to get the viewer to notice these objects and try to understand that there is beauty, whether obvious or unobvious, in everything we see.

Graffiti Art - Nicholas Ganz

Graffiti Art
Street Art from 5 Continents
Nicholas Ganz
Thames & Hudson (2004)

'The emergence of the internet has also played an interesting role in the evolution of graffiti.' (pg10)

The internet has helped to glamorize the action and work produced through graffiti and turn some pieces into art.

An ongoing piece

This is an ongoing piece of work. It is a collection of pieces of paper that I used as palettes to mix on. They have been pined to a mini notice board and will hopefully continue to grow.