27.2.10

VANESSA BILLY - Limoncello Gallery

EXHIBITION VISITED






‘Glass Ceiling Once’ 2010, Cement, Vaseline.
Really not my thing, but the rest of it was good.


‘Hard To Swallow’ 2010, Glass, Cement



‘Hands Bar’ 2010, 40 sec Loop Approx.

This video peice really made me think. The idea that i was only being given the chance to see the girls arms swinging on what seemed to be a playground handle bars or even the parrallel bars in gymnastics. The sense of her falling off was really strong, it made me feel nervous and slightly uncomfortable but at the same time i was really impressed with the skill of the action. The peice at the top, entitled 'hard to swallow' was slightly too obvious for me. The fragile nature of the glass with the bold, durable concrete seemed like to easy to choose. Although the idea that concrete is a porous material is ironic.


Limoncello Gallery

26.2.10

RICHARD WOODS - Arcade Gallery, London



Richard Woods





Playful use of preconceived ideas of materials

MAN RAY - The gift




Surrealist sculpture

Sketchbook scan

JIM LAMBIE

GEMMA HOLT - Limoncello Gallery


‘GH (Bic) Pen’, 2007, SLA Resin, Ink Refills Rapid manufactured, re-appropriated Bic pens.

Playful use of everyday objects

MATTHEW SMITH - Limoncello Gallery


‘Personal Mud’, 2009, Mug Trees, Rope, Chrome Door Stop

MATTHEW HARRISON - Limoncello Gallery



‘Hummer’ , 2008, 4 x American Ash Wagon Wheels, Steel Hub Adapters, Stainless Steel Fixings, Inlaid Veneer Text

Unsuitability of materials

18.2.10

Microwave oven glass plate



Domesticity of an object. connotational object. Object which has emotional/experience significance

Robert Gober | Cat Litter (1989)


Cat Litter

1989. Plaster, ink, and latex paint, 17 x 8 x 5" (43.2 x 20.3 x 12.7 cm). Acquisition from the Werner Dannheisser Testamentary Trust. © 2010 Robert Gober

Among other artists who emerged in the 1980s, Gober explores sexual and cultural identity. "Most of my sculptures," he has said, "have been memories remade, recombined, and filtered through my current experiences." As well as evoking difficult childhood memories, Gober's slightly distorted objects—at once familiar and strange—seem to reflect unease with the domestic rituals and lingering puritanical attitudes of the suburban middle class. His surreal wax body parts, so extremely detailed that they include actual human body hair, prompt contradictory feelings of terror and fascination. This combination of sensations is a response to the paradoxical phenomenon that Sigmund Freud called "the uncanny": Through a small change, something ordinary reveals a hidden strangeness, bringing out long-forgotten fears.


"have been memories remade, recombined, and filtered through my current experiences." As well as evoking difficult childhood memories,

8.2.10

Art Bin: 6 | feb | 2010

EXHIBITION VISITED

Art Bin 2010: large scale installation in The South London Gallery



Sketchbook scan : 8 | feb | 2010



This scan denotes thoughts/ideas in response to the January shows and how i will develop these ideas into physical objects

3.2.10

Lunch boxes : Link



http://www.lunchboxesetc.co.uk/shopdisplayproducts.asp?search=yes&bc=no