This is the work I produced whilst doing the Art & Design Foundation Diploma at Walsall College. We produced work to exhibit at the Custard Factory, Winter 2009. The Black Canvas with the white body print is mine, the work next to it was a HND students work (I think).
I called this piece Les Morts Dansant; The Dancing Dead. I took the title from a song by the band Magnum.
These are prints I took of my face to produce silk screen prints.
This is a cast of my face. I made 21 casts for my Final Major Project. Five were for a performance piece, where I recorded the attempt to smash them but the plaster was almost indestructible. I was pleased with what I did capture as the faces collided and spun around one another producing some diverse elements ranging from elegant and subtle or dormant but deathly. The feedback and response was mixed, it made some people uncomfortable or scared.
Here I tried to subtly change them using colour to test symbolism and psychology.
This work is what I have done up to yet at University. This sculpture is based on a feather; a hand held object chosen to transform into a sculpture that can assemble and disassemble.
Materials used were wood for the structure, cocktail sticks, wall plugs and paper.
This was based on the Chapman brothers work; Tragic Anatomies. Representing mutation/evolution, natural and unnatural materials.
