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So university finished about 2 months ago. What have I been up to? I packed my things and moved to London. Since then I have finally had a little free time to read, visit exhibitions, art events and open studio […]
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So it began; de-installation of the graduate exhibition. Photographs of the artwork I created for the degree show can be found on my website here: www.sikanderpervez.co.uk/#/gallery-2013/4577347019 We had a successful degree show opening night and week. Many artists from the […]
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We collected suggestions for the name of the degree show 2013 from the class and voted for the most successful. I thought that a word would not encapsulate all the different artworks as everyone works in different ways and for […]
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More images from the degree show preparation week. The attached photographs represent the decision making process I went through for the configuration of the Castor wheels. I have titled the degree show work is titled Gallery. This will make more […]
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I have become increasingly interested in the temporary nature of spaces, in particular the gallery space. Therefore, I have been experimenting with objects commonly found in the gallery space. I already work with objects that have connotations of function when […]
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More experiments with Castor wheels and string, this time utilising an object that is commonly found in a gallery space; a plinth.
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The attached images represent the experiments I worked on in the period between [OCCUPIED] & the degree show. These experiments started off as a question, what would happen if I combined the string with Castor wheels? What came of this […]
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Degree show work. So the strip of wood or groove in the concrete floor were never going to work because they would be visible, which in turn would detract from the illusion I was trying to achieve. Therefore, I tried […]
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For the degree show, I want to have at least one ‘resolved’ work which encompasses the current interests and developments of my practice. Looking back through the documentation photographs of my artwork, I came to realise a lot about the […]
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NOW, 2013. I often use materials that have inherent historical significance, both in the art world and everyday life. However, for this artwork I found a large number of ‘NOW’ sale label rolls in a scrap store. These rolls had […]
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Bohemian, 2013. I was approached by a fellow artist to exhibit an artwork for the exhibition he curated at the Bethesda Chapel in Stoke-on-Trent. His idea was for me to exhibit an existing sculpture I had made due to the […]
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Graduate exhibition set up week. In the past week I secured the temporary walls to the existing, permanent walls and the concrete floor so they are not a hazard to the public. I applied a half a big roll of […]