Third Year Degree Project by Samuel Hadgraft

I have always admired the way Da Vinci used scientific methods to overcome problems and while doing so created a variety of artworks.
Da Vinci did drawings that represented a function and also represented an idea. I brought forward his ideas into my own work. Though Da Vinci never created his works they only remained as ideas.

Image:
Da Vinci Catapult (1480)

My sculptural work began with me in my younger years where i used to finish my school lunch and used the end products where i used to try and put them together in some fashion to create something.

This interest has grown and i found myself using recycled materials to make something out of nothing. From there i am taking my work to a new level. The work i am currently doing has reverted back to being formless and more about function.

I am using materials and giving them a different role than what they are intended for.

I have used colour circles to represent the movement of the wheels in this image and their placements. Instead of creating something that looks just like it i wanted to make something less representative.

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After adding a few pieces to the work and fixing it to where it should be i have decided to move on to a completely new seperate partner project. The idea of creating individual lots instead of one large contraption seems to be the way forward, this will not only change the angle of my work but will also enable its transfer to be a lot easier.

This is Tinguely’s Homage to New York” The sculpture stood tall with metal rods and other familiar objects used as a base frame. Tinguely made use of the wheels to kinetically correspond to each other, using drive shafts and wire in such a way that they helped to move and make the sculpture fulfill its purpose.

Watching Tinguely’s work in action has given me a few ideas of my own to incorporate into my own work.