Sylvia Plath

Photography responses to order and structure- alongside covid-19 breakdowns

Practical responses to my thoughts/ research

This piece was created using the rota sheet from my work, from various week. In an aim to show tight rigid structure and how it can feel intense and suffocating but also create a pattern like order which if used effectively can also feel very comforting.

Structure of the workplace

The structure of transport

My burning question for the next couple of days is-“To what extent do we order our lives around external structure and how does it affect us?” For this I plan to zoom into a few different aspects of life. But first I am planning on looking at transport.

Responding visually to my visual research- inspired by the silhouette of my photographs

Using paint and masking tape I attempted to us the silhouette of the buildings in my photography to inform a de Stijl type piece I was creating. I am fairly happy with the outcome. However I do wish the masking tape was more effective . But I do plan to scan this in and edit it on photoshop when I get chance in the future.

Italian futurism and sol le witt

Self isolation Day 1

Feeling quite inspired today. I have written up a few things and began to respond practically to my photography of structures inspired by a “de Stijl” book I recently borrowed from the library.

DISPOSABLE LTD- pop up exhibition at The Manchester Art Gallery

On Saturday 7th March, our class, a small collective of college students, put on a pop up exhibition at The Manchester Art Gallery called “disposable Ltd”. This was an event that lasted for two hours and exhibited all of our individual works from the self directed project we had just completed.

This project was a long time in the pipe line. From months of planning which began with initially contacting the gallery and proposing the idea of a pop up exhibition- to then having numerous meetings about promotion, specific details of time, date etc, and making sure we could problem solve around the many limits exhibiting at the gallery had. It was undoubtedly difficult to organise and execute but was extremely rewarding when we looked around the room and saw the amazing turn out it had.

I have definitely learnt a lot from the whole process and at times felt like it was never going to actually happen. But it all came together in the end.

Here are a series of pictures documenting the process from beginning to middle to end.

UNIT 12- MAG brief

This unit, engaging with the audience-coincided with the Manchester Art gallery Brief which was asking how art and culture shaped the city, and who’s art and culture shaped the city.

Before starting this brief, in the summer I had stumbled upon the bauhaus. I think through a mixture of randomly selected videos on youtube and hearing some people I was around discussing it. I began looking into an researching more, watching multiple documentaries, then going onto borrowing some books rom my college library. I ended up centring my research around artist who were apart of or incorporate bauhaus esque qualities within their work. From here, I started experimenting with different styles of flat, sort of printed work. Learning how to operate photoshop on a basic level and overlay images on the printer in different colours. I began to create a series of images. Most of which originating from collage and developing on, through the use of colour, overlay and inversion to become striking images, and posters.