Forgotten // Solution 1

This is the first half of my A2 Art coursework project. After selecting the theme 'Lost and Found', I focused in on the forgotten/lost aspect. The brief I then developed was to create a piece of work that generated an atmosphere. 

After heavy research and analysis into Jane and Louise Wilson's work (photographed below in the RA Summer Exhibition) I chose to develop a piece that had an overwhelmingly eerie atmosphere.

The piece I created in reflection of Jane and Louise and my starting brief, was a series of layered pieces, featuring photoshopped overlaid images, cardboard expressive marks and cutouts on acetate. The pieces are framed with a rustic 'unfinished' wooden frame; the includes rusty nails, hooks and chains - the idea being to add to this abandoned and forgotten quality of the work. Presentation of the work will feature eerie noise, captured when I visited and photographed my local under passage /subway at night. 

In the project I also presented an essay titled 'Provoking Emotion, Artwork that Envelops the Audience'.

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Forgotten // Solution 2

This is the second solution to my A2 art coursework. Click HERE for full summary, from solution 1. 

The second solution again aimed to achieve an eerie atmosphere, this time through the idea of 'Shadows' - when you walking alone, maybe through a wood, and it feels like someone is following you, that your not alone, yet you cannot see anyone. Artist inspiration from Gormley's figured, one located in my local city.

Achieved by using thick tracing paper with pen drawings of 'eerie' old looking trees, layered up with cutout sections and figured 'hiding'. Figures were later cut, generated on the 2D Design programme from photographs I had taken, onto a grey 'clear' acrylic plastic and wrapped with silver wire. This combination created interesting shadows.  

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Riot

 

For this project I researched into layered scenery and puppetry, eventually developing the idea of creating a layered piece to represent the St Scholastica Day riot - something local to me.

 

For this project I used the 2D design programme and laser cutter to create the layers, which I put together with foam strips, allowing shadows to form from the red backlit frame. 

 



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