Jessie Lumb

After doing some research into Lumb's work where she filled in cracks with plasticine, I discovered other works which highlight the ephemeral and imperfect aspects of everyday life.


We wait for a gem in an endless sea of blah, 2014

Hand coloured stones on the steps of the Adelaide Convention Amphitheatre steps.
 



Blue Sky Something, for tarpspace





Food Colouring in waterfall - 36,000 rainbows

All info and images from http://plasticineandthumbtacks.wordpress.com/



3D PRINTING PEN

http://lixpen.com/


Can connect it to a laptop and you can then make 3D doodles!!! Most amazing invention ever. I want one.

Maud Vantours

Based in Paris Vantours uses layers of paper to create 3D designs for sets, fashion shows and editorials.

I always find paper art really appealing as it is such an everyday medium yet it can be really versatile and even strong. Mixing both geometric and floral shapes also adds interest to what is both 2D and 3D.

El Anatsui

El Anatsui

"Throughout a distinguished forty-year career as both sculptor and teacher – as Professor of Sculpture and Departmental Head at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka – El Anatsui has addressed a vast range of social, political and historical concerns, and embraced an equally diverse range of media and processes. Making use of tools as diverse as chainsaws, welding torches and power tools as well as developing a range of processes such as the intricate and meditative 'sewing' process of his later work, he has shaped found materials that range from cassava graters, railway sleepers, driftwood, iron nails and obituary printing plates, aluminium bottle-tops, etc. to create a wide variety of novel sculptural forms. El Anatsui's iconic “bottle-top installations” have provoked a frenzy of international attention between 2002 and the present, with institutions queuing to acquire these mesmerising works. Created from many thousands of aluminium bottle-tops wired together with copper, these magnificent wall sculptures continue to excite and amaze audiences wherever they are exhibited. His sculptures have been collected by major international museums, including the British Museum, London, the Centre Pompidou, Paris, the de Young Museum, San Francisco, the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, the museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, and many other prestigious institutions besides.

In an interview with October Gallery, EL Anatsui noted, “The amazing thing about working with these metallic ‘fabrics’ is that the poverty of the materials used in no way precludes the telling of rich and wonderful stories." (from http://www.octobergallery.co.uk/artists/anatsui/ )

I am interested in this artist as in year twelve I created a mixed media installation using similar materials which evoked messages of poverty and third world countries in attempting to recreate or show an aspect of my South African history. 

I've always been interested in textiles and the intricacy of the handmade, so I find that this artist's work very appealing.

During year twelve, and even in the years since then I have always been drawn to the concept of making the everyday, and the ignored into something distinguished or beautiful. Taking what has been discarded and turning it into something beautiful is something which I feel my work aesthetic will often come back to. 

Tendrils and jelly

This artists work doesn't really relate to my work in this class, but in visiting aquariums I always find myself losing many hours in-front of the jellyfish. Their delicacy and strangeness is unparalleled by any other creature, and I think Alexander Semanov's photographs capture this exactly.
 











From https://www.flickr.com/photos/a_semenov/sets/72157610938575131/with/7552523880/

Assessment #3 - Artist #5

I've included Sébastien Preschoux as he is another artists who uses coloured thread in his works, but also because of how he uses sections of an environmental landscape that is in no ways geometric and creates seemingly natural and intricate spaces.

What I mean by 'seemingly natural' is that it is as though he has used thread to construct what the eye can not always see. As though he has copied spider webs and used colour and thicker string to make the patterns more obvious. Or has revealed how light is fractured and how it bounces off objects.

 

The artists says that "Nowadays, the new generation disposes of images as a industrial rapidity and they are not asking themselves about where these things are coming from. Is it handmade or is it an electronic work? When they are faced with creating handmade work, they realize the labor and time it takes. The result is way more important than a printed work that is, easily reproduced. In my opinion, art makes sense if it is the result of the human hand."



I really agree with his concept of the human hand having so much influence. Seeing something which would have taken hours, days or even years to complete by hand gives you a greater appreciation for it and also adds a deeper level of beauty.




 
 From http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2010/10/thread-installations-by-sebastien-preschoux/

Faig Ahmed

http://www.faigahmed.com/news/news-4/

Born in Baku, Faig Ahmed graduated in 2004 specialising in sculpture from the Azerbaijan State Academy of Fine Art.

He works in installation and sculpture with his works revolving around the traditional techniques and methods of creating Azerbaijan hand-woven rugs. He then adds contemporary facets - such as pattern, colour or hybradizing the concept of a carpet in itself.

Carpet Equalizer

Conversation

Instability

Expansion

Double Stretching

I think the combination of traditional methods and contemporary values has allowed Ahmed to create really beautiful works. Additionally the fact that he makes them by hand is an amazing concept as it would be a very laborious task. I have always been drawn to the pattern and intricacy of rugs, shawls and carpets and find this to be a really modernised and fresh take on these everyday objects.