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Here are some images of the progress:
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Here you can see more of an idea of what it was I wanted. One interesting comment I had from one of my lecturer’s, was that it reminded them of the works of Sarah Lucas. Particularly her ‘Cigarette’ works, whereby […]
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I researched into the history of ‘Swan Vesta’, and found that the origins of the company produced the first striking matches in Britain. I realised that the two traditional colours of ‘Swan Vesta’ where originally red and yellow…….. This was […]
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The company lettering I also wanted to use within the work (top, left). I sketched onto foam board and cut out. This I painted the same colour red as the background. The main reason for the use of foam board […]
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Robot Project. Even though a lot of my work is in paint and photograph, I have always enjoyed making sculptures, and so wanted to incorporate this into my studio practise. I had this image in my head of a life-size […]
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I also felt strongly that it would be really effective to have the robots eyes replaced with a small television screen. This screen would help me to show advertising on a more visual level. I started playing around with different […]
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The head you see at the bottom of the series of sketches (above), would be the original design for the helmet (head) of the robot. As you can see, I have based the structure of it around the television screen. […]
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So I designed a basic structure for the body of the robot. Once I had this blue print, I could then think about how the outer shell would fit around the inner skeletal structure. Here is the original design, which […]
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The Birth of Consumer-Bot Using my initial design of the inner structure of the robot, I was able to sketch a wooden structure based on the measurements of me, for a scale I could work with. Once I had these […]
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The next step of the process was to start fixing cardboard to the wooden frame. All the cardboard packaging I used, I got from the student shop. I wanted this sculpture to be made entirely from recycled materials, so it […]
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One of the problems that I had with the structure was that the masking tape would not hold everything together. This was only temporary, as I had previously thought that if I used paper maché this would help to strengthen […]
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Here are some more images of the Robot in progress: