Scheme of work and assesment rubric for sculpture

https://www.dropbox.com/home/Scheme%20of%20work#:::83394360

Discovering, creating, tinkering

        BRI COLAGE

Brief
Bricolage – Inventing small-scale prototypes
Using two and three-dimensional drawings as a working process for conceiving of and making sculpture using bricolage as a way of working.

Ideas:

 

found manikin 1950's

I was going to use an object I had found many years ago and always wanted to manipulate and change it from its original use. Unfortunately, the ready-made manikin was too large and Maria suggested I make a prototype of it in paper or wire. I also brought in some work I had done in 1988 and put them up on the wall, which started to guide my work unconsciously at first but then the movement in the prints and the binding action of the paper, straws, cotton and wire started to take shape and the original work was my inspiration.

At the same time I researched anatomy and physiology and grappled with the idea of internal movement, the hidden, expressed in the use of red and blue (red for blood vessels and blue representing veins)

 The original image is full of emotions, hidden meanings, and opposites like fragility / strength, dominance / subservience, movement /stillness, solid / transparent.

Discovering

In the skip outside of ceramics was an old printer, I took the printer cable and discovered an array of multi-coloured wires, I was very excited by this discovery and went to our local recycling centre that evening. I found a huge variety of cables from domestic appliances, computers etc… went home and stripped each wire to reveal the colour, texture, size, shape; it was like the feeling you get at Christmas when you unwrap a present and discover the contents – sometimes it was disappointing but sometimes it was euphoric!

 Experimenting & Process
The experimentation and process go hand in hand, the use of materials and choices are intuitive.  

Finished

 Research

My research for artists who's working method is Bricolage has taken me down lots of different avenues:

Dustin Yellin
Background

Yellin’s artworks are based on an accumulative process of painting and collaging on multiple layers of glass, creating three-dimensional forms. Yellin began this accumulative process on layers of resin and has transitioned to laminated glass in his more recent works. He uses found objects, images from a wide range of printed material and photorealistic painting to create fantastic scenes and images. Yellin's exploration of how we move within a mental environment of shifting depths is reminiscent of Deleuze’s A Thousand Plateaus and Robert Rauschenberg's combines. His paintings and collages use a method of representing three-dimensional forms that is similar to both lenticular images and rapid prototyping. The technique approximates a static volumetric display and is autostereoscopic. His artworks appear three dimensional without the use of special glasses or viewing equipment. Yellin is currently researching and developing methods of three-dimensional photography and expanding the breadth of his collages and paintings.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dustin_Yellin

  Why have I chosen this artist?

 An obvious connection would be the human form displaying the body from the inside out, with an added twist of containing, preserving the image in glass. He creates the illusion of 3D when in fact they are 2D. They show a high level of technical competency and a creative mind, pushing conventional boundaries and methods.  

Infact, I found most of the artists working with found objects through the mediums of fine art, music, video, to be very exciting and interesting, playfull, experiemental, creative and inspiring.

 Bricolage Artists

 Virginia Fitzgerald

Egg shell dress

Mandarin dress

Robert Rauschenberg, American Artist

Mr. Rauschenberg’s work gave new meaning to sculpture. “Monogram” was a stuffed goat girdled by a tire atop a painted panel. No American artist, Jasper Johns once said, invented more than

Mr. Rauschenberg. “Beauty is now underfoot wherever we take the trouble to look.”

The process — an improvisatory, counterintuitive way of doing things — was always what mattered most to him. “Screwing things up is a virtue,” he said when he was 74. “Being correct is never the point.

 This attitude also inclined him, as the painter Jack Tworkov once said, “to see beyond what others have decided should be the limits of art.”

Kazuhiko "Palla" Kawahara 

Japanese architect and photographer Kazuhiko Kawahara digitally manipulates images of buildings and the urban built environment. His compositions have a kaleidoscope quality that re-imagines forms and sight lines. These photographs often turn the everyday into something exceptional

 Examples of music and video Bricolage:

Afrika Bambaataa Music – DJ’s and sampling old records - the most important and creative DJ and sampler was Afrika Bambaataa. His anthem "Planet Rock" is based on Kraftwerk's "Trans-Europe Express." The song "Planet Rock" has gone on to be a hugely sampled track.

Amon Tobin - One contemporary musician who works with both sound collage and hip-hop style sampling is Amon Tobin. His first record, which was actually titled Bricolage, blended bossa nova, jazz, drum n bass and electronic styles for what became a completely new hybrid, electronic sound.

Negativland - Another important collective who test the boundaries of sampling, sound collage, visual appropriation and copy right law is Negativland

Clemens Kogler – film maker and  Chris Clark musician produced  - "Herr Barr" by musician Clark demonstrates bricolage across media. All of the images are collage treatments built from cut-outs of photographs of human body parts (the filmmaker, Clemens Kogler, scanned the body parts, then reassembled them). Clark's music blends elements from drum and bass, techno, ambient and hip-hop.

Found image unknown artist

Sculpture

               BRI  COLAGE

Check out my new bricolage music videos

I have been doing some research on Bricolage and found a variety of art forms using Bricolage as a   way of working. I have some music & video examples by Clark - Herr Barr from "Body Riddle" Album and Negativeland ( an important collective who test the boundaries of sampling, sound collage, visual appropriation and copy right law).

Bricolage in music often takes the form of sound collage, as well as sampling. The video for "Herr Barr" demonstrates bricolage across media. All of the images are collage treatments built from cut-outs of photographs of human body parts (the filmmaker, Clemens Kogler, scanned the body parts, then reassembled them). Clark's music blends elements from drum and bass, techno, ambient and hip-hop.

http://www.metapedia.com/wiki/index.php?title=Bricolage (accessed 27/11/11)

Art Teachers of Ireland

http://www.artteachers.ie/

Mild, General Learning disabilities

Guideline for Teachers of Students with mild General Learning Diasbilities

Excellent document for studnets with mild learning differences in Art, Craft and Design

http://www.ncca.ie/uploadedfiles/PP_Art.pdf

Textile slide show of students work

https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/VCI9o3XplD_aKWwywgiO8A?feat=directlink

Scheme of work Textiles

Draft scheme of work Textiles

https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=15FGsh6mQpt2Avmm5EdhZnxsLSskB1_4jO9ES3v-QWrg

Textiles

Exploring my ideas

I wanted to find new ways of documenting and cataloguing my garden, originally when I conceived the idea I was going to document each plant I found in four different ways-

·         Photograph

·         Drawn Illustration of the plant in situ

·         Dry and press the plant using a flower press or a homemade press for larger plants

·         Write about the plant using reference books (the plants chemical compounds, uses in herbalism and modern medicine, other uses the plant has e.g. nettles used in the first world war by the German’s to make uniforms)

And produce a book of the work; this is a very conventional way of documenting flora and fauna and I wanted to move away from convention and create a design that incorporated shape, line, and form.

In addition, this level of documentation is time consuming and requires a level of dedication (possibly one for retirement or the summer holidays only!).  

 I did think of using this idea but focussing on one or two plants to create a map but with other ideas flooding in about the fauna as well as the flora moved me on to looking at ways of simplifying my illustrations and including more, not less flora and fauna.

 I collated images of:

Animal footprints

Silhouettes of butterflies, moths, lizard, flowers

Map of Derainey

Illustrations of honey suckle, iris’s, nettles, bind weed etc.. I had done over the last couple of years as well as photographs I have of the moths that have been documented in Derainey by an Irish moth specialist.

 Creating the canvas map:

I started to create a map using the animal footprints on one side and a map of Derainey on the other

I stiffened the canvas with fabric stiffener, cut out stencils of animal tracks, and used black acrylic paint to create the image. This was not working well but because I had stiffened the fabric, it made it almost impossible to embroider or sew on beads etc..  I also felt it was a little contrived and not as spontaneous and as I wanted. Even though I had spent time on construction of the map, images to go on the map the design was lacking in line, form, and shape.

Embroidery Running stitch on canvas map

Stenciled animal foot prints on canvas map

Creating the design on silk

To create more line and shape I constructed a grid using the map folds idea, I produced a grid containing 16 oblong boxes with space between the boxes representing picture frames.

I drew the images on to paper and then transferred the images by placing the silk over the drawing and tracing through the material.

To express the delicate and fragile nature of the flora and fauna I used silk. The properties of silk: natural product, delicate, strong but can be easily ripped or torn, soft to the touch, and woven to make a very fine material, it can be folded and placed in your pocket.

Colour

I decided to use only one colour, black on the batik with a hint of red and green by using fabric paints. I was inspired by other black and white batiks I saw on the internet.

Creating

Step by step guide to producing a Batik design of Flora and Fauna on silk

1.  Draw the design on Paper

 

2. Transferring the design on to silk.make a wooden frame to attach the material to.

 

3.  Using wax resist to create a design on silk by following the drawn lines or filling in the back ground

 

4. Using Batik tools and paint brushes, different Batik tools create different effects on the silk depnding on how large the hole is that lets the wax run. Paint brushes can be used in different ways depending on the size and shape. I used very small paint brushes to give detail to the work.

5. Dyeing the silk - I followed the instructions on the dye packet and left the silk in the buket for 30 minutes to make sure I had a strong black colour.

 

6. Ironing the silk to remove the wax - it took lots of news print paper to remove all the wax from the silk.

7.  Finished Batik

 On Reflection

I should have spent more time on my design, I found it very easy to go off on a tangent and look at human geography, maps of the world, ancient maps, typography of 1910 – 1920, think about photograph albums, portraiture, map folds, map typography….. the list goes on, instead on focussing on my design. Although I do feel, I have a number of scheme ideas from this one project especially around fabric printing and mapping. 

Textile Project research

Textiles project

Ideas based on previous work

 I have always been interested in cataloguing, recording, and collating the flora and fauna of my land in East Clare. I am lucky enough to have four acres of land in a secluded part of East Clare close to the Galway border. The four acres contains a mix of indigenous trees, wild flowers , and native wildlife. Over the last twenty years I have documented, drawn and collected different plants and animals that I have found on my land, I also have a fine collection of birds nest!

View from my house overlooking bog land at the bottom of my land

Brief

Using textiles as a medium create an artwork based on the flora and fauna of Derainey.

My Ideas

1.       Create a map of Derainey using silkscreen printing and possible over lays using acetate

2.       Use symbols or silhouettes to show various flora and fauna of Derainey, printed using stencils on to fabric

3.       Use canvas and print on both sides of material to create a map, folded as a traditional map

4.       Depict the images of flora and fauna as if they are in an old photographic album

5.       Produce a batik based on images created for mapping

 Title

Mapping my Garden

Research for textile project

Maps:

Ordinance survey map of East Clare, Walking maps of East Clare, Lettering styles of old maps, Old maps, Map Legends, signs and symbols, Map folds

Walking map of East Clare

Map folds

Map folds

Map symbols / legend

Photograph albums:

 Old photograph albums

Lettering used on old photographic albums

 Animal & bird footprints:

Fox, Badger, Rat, Fallow deer, Cat, Dog, Heron, Crow

 Moth & butterfly silhouettes:

Materials:

Canvas, hessian, coloured canvas

Stencils

Black acrylic paint

Embroidery thread

Watercolour pencils

Fabric pens

Silk

Batik tools

Dylon dies

Paintbrushes

Needle

Sponge

Silk screen frame

 Images from other textile artists