The concept for my degree show work, and therefore my art practice is still evolving. However, I feel it is now arriving close to the point where I’m happy with the evolution of my ideas and what the final outcome will be. Looking back at the artists I’ve explored and taken inspiration from, I can clearly see how my art practice has moved forward from the initial idea I had back in October last year.
Together with Turrell and Kapoor, other artists that have had a considerable influence on the way I use space and mediums within my art practice include a diverse of art styles and mediums used.
The installation work of Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson has encouraged me to be more adventurous to the approach I am taking in my current practice, especially seeing how he uses space and light. His installations are varied in approach and mediums used, but also very thought provoking.
The artists mentioned here are merely the tip of the iceberg as far as the inspirational and contextual artists I have research.
My experimentation of colour within the clear resin droplets rather than my original idea of the ‘droplets’ just placed on an image came about after discovering American abstraction artist Bruce Riley who works in psychedelic colours with paint and clear casting resin. He works in layers of resin and able to create actual depth, his paintings display physical space by shadows of the paint on one layer being created on the layer(s) beneath.
Similar the Riley, Chai Soong Ng works with acrylic on layers of clear epoxy resin producing 3 dimensional paintings. This build up of layers creates a volume to his paintings and space they occupy.
American Artist Tara Donovan primarily uses everyday objects to create her installations. Although the materials I use aren’t in the realms of the everyday, the elements that interest me with Donovan and her work are the general scale of her installations and, like me, she is process driven with regards to making art.
