I have now been shown my degree show space and told that I can paint directly onto the wall, so I have looked at a few artists who use large areas of the wall for ideas.
Beat Zoderer
I have been using string in my work and would like to incorparate it into my final piece, yet I am not sure how I am going to hold the string in place. Looking at Zoderer’s work has sparked a few ideas and I love the colours and fluidity, as well as the work slightly hanging off the wall.
Carlos Cruz Diez
‘Chromosaturation’ by Carlos Cruz Diez.
Diez’s chromatic spaces are produced to alter the perception of its viewers, by changing the colour of their clothing and the objects that come into contact with the area. When your eyes adjust to these colours in one room, you walk into another and are thrown by more colours and have to adapt again and again. The artist has played with colour using architecture and light. The colours are unnatural and it’s like being in a ‘dreamscape’. I am not planning anything to this scale but I will be using bright colours that will hopefully shock visitors.
Walead Beshty
Walead Beshty covered a wall at The Barbican by pinning a collection of 1200 cyanotype prints like wallpaper, full of random items displayed on different paper. This piece took a year and unfortunately I do not have that amount of time to do anything like this, but I like the idea of silhouettes of objects. So far my two mediums of choice have been spray paint and photography and right now I feel more drawn to paint; I have been thinking about creating a much bigger version of my canvases in my degree space – using vibrant colours like Diez and using objects to create imprints, like Beshty’s cyanotypes.
