Shaun Project Crit: Staurt Teers, Sophie Gibbons/ Lucy Archer and Giulia Suma.
I was unable to attend the Shaun Project Crit this morning as I had a doctors appointment so I was only able to take photographs in the afternoon. This meant that I missed the conversation and the overall ideas of each piece of work and the context behind them but I still managed to take some photographs of how they were curated within the space.
Stuart had positioned his white overhaul / body-suit covered in found leaves on the floor so it can be walked around and seen from various different viewpoints. I do know that this was the main part of a performance piece that Stuart has been working on within the studios in relation to a piece of video installation. Unfortunately at the time I visited the Shaun Project Space I wasn't able to see this physical piece of artwork in the video/performance context it was created for so I just had to imagine generally how it would have been used.
Although using the subject matter of nature and the landscape in the medium of leaves, and by securing them to a wearable object it connects nature to a kinetic movement that is natural to us. Stuart's choice to bring a performance and video context to his studio practice alongside his usual way of working with natural landscapes (painting) shows an physically experimental direction I think.
Another Large piece that was included within this weeks Crit was a large Painted and hand-drawn Pen piece created by Sophie and Lucy. As this is a collaborative piece it clearly expresses two different styles of working but at the same time each style compliments the other in the way that the subject matter (wolves) connects. Sophie's attention to detail and use of pattern is a clear creative focus alongside the subject of animals and by dividing the wolf's head into multiple areas of patterned light and dark sections it brings a sense of dimensional depth to the drawing. This approach and drawing method on a 2D surface (Paper) is something I like to look at visually, having an interest in drawing myself. In contrast to this Lucy's style of working is directed towards using various tones of paint to build up the visual representation of the wolves' fur. By blending and using different shades of colour its clear Lucy has wanted to bring a slight sense of realism to her mythical drawings which I think has worked. I know Lucy likes to use her hands to apply the paint to the paper but I'm not sure if his method was used when creating this piece of collaborative work.
When I look at the composition of Lucy's wolves and the way the surround the moon and sun which is central to the both, I seem to think of the idea of Ying and Yang.
As I don't know the idea behind Giulia's work I had to try and look at the pieces and determine my own general idea of what I thought they were about and look at them in a drawing context.
When looking these three drawings I felt they expressed the idea and style of Fantasy illustration and when looking at the right image connected it to the idea of dreaming or day dreaming. This is all I could determine from the images alone without any background information of connected information (context).