The river Lune that passes through Lancaster.

               Watching the movement of the river Lune when it passes under a foot bridge.

The patterns on top of the water as it passes under the bridge.



The patterns keep changing. 

 

 

 

Data Jewellery

Came across these cuffs on the Internet. Thought they were interesting enough for the Data brief. How to incorporate Data into an art form or in this case a piece of jewellery

Berlin Metro.

Chicago Metro.

New York City Metro ( embossed)

Milan Metro.

 

London Tube ( embossed)







 

Ursula Hilz

 



Ursula Hilz artist and designer. Born in rural Switzerland.
Works in typography, graphics. Since moving to London 10 years
ago, Ursula's work has focused on location and place.She creates
typographic maps of the worlds best-known cities. 

Map of Paris

Map of Rome.

Central New York.

Greater London.

Close up of Greater London.



I chose this artist because of her work with typography. The brief  
I am doing at the moment is Data and I feel this research fits nicely 
into the brief. I do think her work is stylish and has movement in the images. 






 

The Lowry Gallery, Salford Quays.

Went to see the Lowry collection on the Salford Quays it's the first time I've been to this gallery and was very impressed with the modern setting. A very well laid out gallery, well lit and easy to access.
Great to see LS.Lowry's pictures together. Much to my delight Peter Blake also had an exhibition there too.



The Doctor's waiting
room.



Post Office.

Going to work.

The Level Crossing

Self portrait of LS.Lowry.


Peter Blake.

A Self Portrait of Peter Blake.

Pop Art 1950's

The juke box.

 

 

 

 

 

Pictures at the exhibition.
 

Sorry, some of the images are small or not too sharp... not allowed to take photographs while I was there. So had to rely on the website photographs.
Peter Blake's exhibition is amazing and well worth going to see. I last saw him at Liverpool Tate roughly 6 years ago.This exhibition is to celebrate his 80th birthday year.

Data

This brief is about Data. For the first part of the brief all the students stood in a line line to play Chinese whispers. The first person was given the brief and passed the information to next person and so on. The last person's brief was very different to the first person's brief, like graph paper ! The information passed to me was..... go to the library and choose some books for graphs, words, and numbers. With this information I went to the library to choose books for the next part of the brief.
This is my choice of books: Decision and Discrete Mathematics and Field Hyrogeology. From these two books I created drawings from some of the images inside the books. Also I wanted to mark make using cardboard/wood objects as well as pen/brush.

Drawing from Decision and Discrete Mathematics.
Black oil bar, pen and liquid paper pen. 

Another drawing from Decision and Discrete Mathematics.
Dripped ink with round marks made from cardboard object and filled
with photocopied numbers from the above book and photocopied text
 from my diary.

 

Again another drawing from the mathematics book.
I did use a brush for the white gouache paint. 

These are the objects I used for the mark making of the above
pictures.

This is a personal data drawing. Photocopiered my passport pages
and the diary pages from one of my holidays in India and mark making over them in ink.
Not turned out as I would have liked the V signs look like bird feet and this was not the mark
 I wanted !
 

 

 

These are the objects I used for the above image. 



A black liner pen was used for the mark making in this image.
This drawing is from the book Field Hydrogeology.




The above image is very striking to look at and the
mathematics pictures above are interesting to look
at. I am really enjoying the Data project. Great  
trying the different information data available
and changing it into a piece of art work. 
 

Matisse

Henri Matisse born 1869 in Le Cateau-Cambresis (Nord).
Died. 1954.
Painter and sculptor.



Matisse 1896


 

Matisse draws a head for the decoration of Chapelle
Du Rosaire in Vence in his studio / hotel room in
the Hotel Regina in Nice-Cimirz.      (1950 ) 

Matisse drawing the stations of the cross with
the aid of a bamboo pole in the interior of the
Chapelle Du Rosaire Vence. (1950)

Henri Matisse at work for the Chapelle

                                                                         Du Rosaire Vence.  (1951)

After drawing with my right hand and then drawing with a bamboo stick I realise how difficult

this must have been for Matisse. Yet he drew amazing pictures and images with his very long paint

brush and bamboo stick. As he became infirmed this did not stop him producing  art.  The images

below show Henri Matisse in his studio cutting out the shapes for his pictures shown below.

1952

La Gerbe 1953. 

 

 

 

La Perruche et al Sirene 1952.

The Snail 1953 (Tate Modern)

 

 

 

 

Henri Matisse was a very interesting artist, who started in life as a clerk in a law office.

Because of ill health Matisse started to paint. At 21 years old this was the turning point

of his life. He still worked in the office at the lawyers where he would decorate his books with

flowers and faces. Every morning he would attend a drawing class at the Ecole Quentin

de La Tour which specialised in tapestry and textile design. Lunch time he would spend

his time painting and then return to work. In 1891 Matisse abandoned law. His life as a artist

began. I love Matisse's work the colours, shapes and the fluid lines that he uses. What a loss

to the art world if Henri Matisse decided to pursue his career as a lawyer.

 



Black and White Data Drawings

 

The task was to use only pencil, graphite, charcoal or black oil bar. 

The idea of this task was to use other ways of mark making. Using left,

 hand if right handed or vice ver'sa. Drawing with sticks or other objects to change

the mark we make.    

 

 

 

The drawing rule for this image. Use a H pencil drawing

with left hand (if right handed) a circle with the lines

no more than 3mm apart for 30 minutes.Keep going

even if you feel your hand is going to drop off !!     

 

This drawings rule is taping a piece of charcoal onto a bamboo

stick and tuck up your sleeve. Draw a circle again this time for 20 minutes.

 

                              The above drawings are to represent  200 year old tree rings.

The rule for this drawing, is to draw a maze. Again for 30

minutes ( I took 10 minutes). I used a oil bar for this mark

making.  I like the two tone effect from using the oil bar.   

 

Culture Show

I watched the Culture Show last Wednesday night. A fabulous show, which starred Yayoi Kusama at Tate Modern ( which I will certainly visit in March), Richard Wilson and a very exciting light show by Angus Farquhar. I thought the show highlighted the lecture on Data last Tuesday 4 th December very nicely.




This is a clip of Yayoi Kusama showing some of her work, present and past. Kusama at Tate modern is a beautiful installation using lights, mirrors and water. Well worth viewing this short video.

Slipstream.


Richard Wilson's installation Slipstream is based on and I quote " Sense of velocity and movement of a stunt plane.
This installation is known as" Transpose the thrill of an airshow " and is going to be installed in Heathrow's Terminal 2 in 2014.     

Bexhill Pavilion." Hang on a minute lads, got a great idea."
Richard Wilson's rooftop sculpture based on "The Italian Job" film for the London 2012 Festival.
 

Angus Farquhar's light event at Arthur's Seat in
Edinburgh. 2500 runners and walkers wearing specially designed light suits. Creating a mass of light and colour
on the city's most famous hill.

Mary Bourne

Mary Borne was born in England and moved with her family to Aberdeen 1970 where she was brought up.

1981 - 6   Attended Edinburgh School of Art.

                BA ( Hons) Sculptor/ Visual artiste.
               
                Now based in rural Moray, North East of Scotland.

                Has many commissions in public places home and abroad.

                Won a number of awards and prizes for her work. 

Fossil Record.

Birch Diptych.


These are examples of Mary's work.

  Mary Bourne works principally in natural stone using variety of techniques, caving, sandblasting, heat and polishing.

This is her quote about trees " Trees deflect wind and hold onto the soil; they are an important crop, providing income and employment. But they are also more than this; as you pass through the
landscape they are hooks to hang your thoughts on and silent watchers of your passage."

Regeneration.

Mountain Flower.

Bourne produces a sculpture that you want to pick up and touch the lovely smooth texture they appear to have. They are so rustic, yet very sophisticated pieces of art that would look good in a city or in a rural setting.