Colour Inspiration

Here is some colour inspiration that I brought back from Rome, a fruity combination to get you feeling warm in these miserable winter days.

Candy Chang - Confessions

Candy Chang is someone that I keep coming across and loving her work more and more.  Her lastest work in Las Vegas, "Confessions" is a great demonstration of her public art installations. She has invited the visitors of Las Vegas to come into the studio and write their deepest darkest confessions anonymously, for them then to be displayed for everyone to see. Her work gets people to contribute to public areas in a personal way, but viable for everyone to take part in. 

Two more sleeps....

Re-living the 1940's!

The Blitz Party, a 1940's themed night in Shoreditch. The moment you arrive the experience begins, the soft music in the background, the bare brick walls and the open space ready to be filled with dancers. I had the most amazing night with my friends, swing dancing to the live bands. Every detail of the venue is carefully following the theme and so are all of the guests, being engulfed in a 1940's atmosphere really makes you feel like you have gone back in time. If you love fancy dress, a alternative night or wish you were alive in the 1940's then make you way to The Blitz Party.

Tim Walker : Storyteller

Well I went to this exhibition weeks ago, as I was so eager to see it as soon as it opened! However life has got in the way of me posting about it, the exhibition is still on and if I get the chance I will be going to see it again at Somerset House. 

I have always been a fan of Tim Walkers work and this exhibition guides you through it nicely, from the giant props, variety of photographs and the quotes on the walls. It was great to see the giant skeleton form one of the photo shoots inspired by Tim Burton's work and other props that were familiar form photo shoots. What is interesting with Tim Walkers work is that he really creates the dreamlike world of his photograph using real life props, rather than digitally edited in. His work will always evoke a feeling in me that makes me imagine clearly the world he is trying to project.

 

 

Body Sculpture

“Art has to change things, and if it was immediately acceptable it would not be doing the job. The press are the most cynical and re-enforce an outdated attitude that is not actually the way people think. People enjoy challenges, find visual art exciting and do not think all artists are trying to pull a fast one.”

—	Antony Gormley

Antony Gormleys' human forms are always interesting, the fabrication, the positioning of the body and the placement. Below are a few examples that I find really interesting. I am always intrigued by the human form and ways to represent it, so Anthony Gormley is a great point of art reference and inspiration.

His sculptures are usually textured and made of metal, which is a harsh material to represent the body, however the fabrication makes you feel something towards the bodies that are presented in front of you.

He always places the sculptures in different places, from the beach to in between floors.

This sculpture is placed in Canterbury Cathedral, suspended above the tomb of Thomas Becket and made from the antique iron nails taken form the Cathedral roof repairs.

Event Horizon, multiple sculptures around New York placed on the skyline. The sculptures almost present the idea of suicidal people however the point was that people would stop and look st the environment and skyline around them. 

Blind Light, an exhibition at The Hayward Gallery, where a box was filled with dense vapour making it hard for visitors to see their way through the box and from the outside you can see the silhouettes of the visitors.

Design

'The creative designer interprets the design brief not as a specification for a solution, but as a kind of partial map of unknown territory and the designer sets off to explore, to discover something new, rather than to return with yet another example of the already familiar.'

Cross, N (2006) Designerly Ways of Knowing, Springer-Verlanng, London.