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Putting it all Together
Projection * I experimented with rear projection and back projection at home using the same distances as my degree show space. Neither was successful: the image from the rear of viewers at that distance was too big for the wall […]
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Last days…
I’ve been preparing my space. It has its wall and projector box – hurray! for UCS technicians and all their support. The box looks rather tall, and although the projection area looks as I imagined, the rest of the space […]
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Practicalities and More Thinking.
Practicalities It’s all getting very real! I’ve had my technician session to specify my build for the degree show – with its new wall and a plinth to hide the projection kit, borrowed the projector, media player and long extension […]
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Degree Show Thinking: Experiments, Bergen, and a Dilemma.
I’ve already considered and rejected projecting a kind of floating show of my animations onto smoke. It would be too difficult to create enough of a dense body of smoke for long enough to show a projected image, and doing […]
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Information Gathering: Exhibitions…
In the past few weeks I’ve tried to confront my anxiety about how to display my work by seeing a lot of exhibitions. These ones were particularly useful. Annabel Dover: The Psychopathology of Everyday Life Waterfront Galley, Ipswich. Annabel is […]
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Reviewing the Situation
It’s been an interesting few weeks. Postgraduate RCA sculpture students visited to tell us about their practice, and then give tutorials. My tutorial with Luana Duvoisin Zanchi was really rewarding: the stop motion clip seemed to interest her, and reminded […]
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Whoop Whoop!
Well, my project this week was to use photos of the prints I made and blogged about for my last post to make an animation of the original image. I scanned them into my computer, and then set about creating […]
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A New Piece
After tucking up my roll of pastel picture, I’ve decided it is time to tackle a new image from the cine films. One has a brilliant blue singe mark across it, and some interesting life going on ambiguously across it. […]
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Going large…
The big soft pastel image has been an interesting adventure. – I’ve experimented with stump blenders, in an effort to reduce an accumulation of finger grease that might have reduced the image’s surface bite, and prevented me adding more layers […]
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First Thursday November 2015 – considering display…
I made it to London’s East End determined to see as many new (to me, that is) contemporary galleries as possible, and to consider how/why they had displayed the works shown. Here are my highlights – * LONDON NEWCASTLE PROJECT […]
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Large or Small?
During my group crit. my tutor David Baldry made one comment, that my work would really only achieve the effect I’m chasing if I get the display right, which I have to agree with. It is almost distressing to find […]
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Making and reflecting
Well, I had a go at a bigger watercolour on stretched tracing paper. It is not easy to build up dark areas of pigment, possibly because the bigger paper holds so much water. I decide to let the paper dry […]