My Final Year – Degree Practice Digital Sketchbook

Link to Congruous Exhibition on the Artstation Website: https://theartstation.uk/exhibition/congruous/

Link to Congruous film on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp-6kOtYvcU

‘Transcend the Cube’ from 4m30s to 6m10s.

Link to Artstation Instagram to view posts on the page: https://instagram.com/the_artstation?utm_medium=copy_link

Images used for the Crit:

I hadn’t though of working directly on the wall before like this I’ve written on walls before but this is a new thing so i might do that more.

I do prefer the white wall, magnolia isn’t great to photograph.

The group thought that the ‘Transcend the Cube’ title is good.

Webpage: professional, gallery, white background of the website. Video made you feel like you could interact with the works.

Film: flow between works worked well. Connections were formed between the work. Congruity. Made you feel like you were together/ in the same house or contained in a gallery, areas of one structure.

Claire: Clever construct of bringing the work together and contextual and appropriate. Suspense and anxiety latent feeling of things going to happen. Eerie. Spent the night in a haunted house. Mystery came out of it.

Susan: Setting within the art station website is elegant and works well. Moving image and still images highlights the different modes of communication to document and relay work to an audience through an online platform and shows how some work lends itself to be documented better through still vs moving image. It reads as a house full of artists using one space.

My work: a beautiful bright explosion of work. Colours and shadowing. Looks like a Phoenix rising from the ashes. Like the person viewing it was in the space, watched it so many times it is like you know where you’re going. It pulls you up the stairs. Organic and movement and movement pulling you along up the stairs. Is it fire or water what is it? Good use of colour, automatic an impulsive feels different going up or down. Spacing and use of the white background. Jim Kay. Angle you look at it you make new connections and continuous links as the work moves across space and still lines up. Living with the mural. Permanent ephemerality. amazing energy, coming out of landscape – rivers sea, mountain forest moving together. Playful the joy of paint and mark making. Making the confined space seem ‘other’. Cy Twombly four seasons. Purposefulness, not precious so it invited you to revel in the joy of the instantaneous ness mistake, error and drips. Courage and confidence in the scale and space. Based on chance and intuition. The words just came out. Expression through mark making and language. Makes you look more at it. William kentridge. Poetry and mark making.

After the Congruous exhibition, my tutor Jane asked me to submit images to enter into the Freelands Foundation Painting prize 2021. I submitted this image of my work Transcend the Cube (2021). I think next time I would try to document the work better by using a photographers light, this would allow for the light to be spread more evenly throughout the space.

Image of Transcend the Cube (2021) submitted to the Freelands Painting Prize 2021.

02/05/2021 – I was nominated and then eventually shortlisted for the prize. Although i did not win, I am incredibly proud of having been asked to submit and to have been shortlisted. I never though my work could be recognised like this and it has spurred me on to submit to more open calls in the present and the future.

Colours blending and dripping into each other

Handrail disrupts the imagery

Landscape format

Painting directly onto a wall

Urgency to it

360 on the stairs

Abstracted imagery different perspectives

Marks and colours fluid bird wings movement

Focus in on specific details

Thickness and texture of paint and wall

William Blake poems and drawings

Pointillism

fauvism German group end of 19 century

wall as background use of white space

Film going up the stairs

Goodbye magnolia

Naturally flows with the staircase and space

Final images of the Congruous exhibition flyer/poster/instagram post and logo I finalised today. Now including the Artstation logo!

Images of the Finalised designs for Congruous Exhibition flyers.

I will also be making taster posters for individuals to share on instagram of their own work. This means they are made with the same font and layout – for continuity.

Currently I am working on my staircase/hallway work for the upcoming exhibition which I will be discussing in my next post.

I spent the last week focusing on making a logo and poster for the upcoming exhibition.

Image of painting in staircase area

I worked on a few examples of logos and posters for the exhibition. The first one was received well, but after speaking to family members and having feedback from my peers, they felt the wording was too broken and didn’t have a flow to it. Also after a couple of days I didn’t really like it!

Image of first logo idea

I also worked on a poster to go alongside it which I wasn’t so keen on and felt it seemed to simple and not professional enough. I was told that the handwritten element of it was received well, so I considered this as I worked on the new one.

Image of first poster idea

Below was the idea for the new logo, which took the hand-drawn element and the simple word in a single row idea too. This was received well and we decided to go with it. I was quite happy with it and developed posters and instagram posts to go with it.

Image of final logo

I worked it into the final poster idea. I decided to use our last names, which felt like a nod to the fact the female artists throughout history were often referred to by both their names and male artists were and still are more commonly known by their last names.  I felt it was more professional and worked into the poster better. I also used our instagram handles as it will be a virtual exhibition and we will be showing our work on the platform too.

Image of final poster

I also worked into a square design for an instagram post.

Image of final Instagram poster

I decided to work with a colour scheme that was professional, subdued and also reflected to University’s logo. I decided to highlight the ‘us’ at the end of the Congruous title as I felt it was in keeping with the meaning of congruous – ‘in harmony’ which is how I felt working together with my peers while at home. The title congruous came from a word I learnt while working with Matt for the dissertation module. The word was ‘incongruous’, which was a difficult word to find a sure meaning for, especially in the context of art. Kieran suggested the word congruous as a version of it which played well on our themes as they are often in harmony.