DIY Presents... Saturday 26th September 2009- A reflection.

Featuring; Lisa Gorton
Jade Blood
Jonathan...

An afternoon of experimentation, playing, process, responding, mixing and on the spot thinking.

Materials: Electrical tape, elements of sound, found objects, walls of Space 109, typewriter, biro, graph paper, old film tape, tin containers, tulip lights, fairy lights, plastic piping, wires, laptop, speakers, glass jars, rugs, banner, bodies, Happycat, ginger-bread men and green tea [with a hint of jasmine].

Outcomes: Installation, new sound/music, collages, working process on view, new drawings/sculptures, a new path for constructing - re constructing - deconstructing line, material and form.

I enjoyed the spontaneity of it all. The not really knowing before hand, not prepared, only small formal experiments in my own studio before hand. Responding to the interior of Space 109 but also to other bodies and works. The placement of my materials was not only dependant on the architecture of the space but on the position of other bodies and their placement of materials. Their work dictating mine and vice versa.

Space-Materials-Bodies-Placement.

New Work Drawing/ Collage

Drawing/sculpture/Installation as research

The works above are a selection of images from my final degree show. The works explore notions of space, perception, representation, re-representation, drawing, sculpture and installation. I plan to use this work whilst it is currently still installed as a starting point to generate new works. I intend to go in every day for the next week and draw from the exhibition, using various materials. This then keeps this idea of drawing and sculpture on the same level; construction, deconstruction, reconstruction.

A way to generate...

Draw from new work
Draw from installation
Begin [again]
To transform what is already there.
Paper
Drawing tools
And start again...

Degree Show Finale

The week of viewing has finished and I just wanted to write some thoughts about it.

Why 4o'clock closing, we could have had one late night until 8/9 o'clock and had free York St John wine! Yeay!!

Only a week?

When I first put my exhibition up it felt like it was uncomfortably sat at the edge of a sofa...

But after going in everyday and seeing it, getting used to it and seeing it in a different way each day, documenting it and writing some notes it now feels it's sat back comfortably. So comfortable it doesn't want to move...

Even though I feel it sits comfortably were it is I also feel that there is so much more that can be done with it. If I had a bigger space, smaller space, a different space what could it look like? I know a different space wouldn't hold this exhibition in the same way that Studio one has but a new space would have new characteristics that I could play with and manipulate.
Whilst viewing my exhibition thoughts of floor came into my head. Ripping up floor boards, half tearing them, bending them, use them as a sculptural material. That's if they were wooden floor boards. Looking at my exhibition I also feel that I could have done so much more with the fine black elastic that I used. But too much would have turned it into silly maze. Maybe...
And for now those hooks. The hooks in the ceiling. How I love those hooks.

What lies within the blue space?