Showing posts with label pattern. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pattern. Show all posts
Friday, 15 March 2024
iminabook!
I’m in a book! Pattern and Chaos in Art, Science and Everyday Life (Book) Critical Intersections and Creative Practice. By Sarah Horton and Victoria Mitchell some work I made whilst in resident at Nanotech DTC in Cambridge. Working on some 3D structures using a present – PLA that gradually blends from one colour to another – the first one looks totally alien. Saw Little Shop of Horrors at the Wolsey in Ipswich – intriguing musical that kept me interested throughout all the show tunes in that it seems to comment on capitalism/slavery. Onto screens – Land of bad –the caring might of America demonstrated through drones and expensive technology! Code 8 part 11 – superhuman powers, robots, authoritarian state – what could go wrong. The Gentleman – wonderful, glorious nonsense. Just at the beginning of Masters of the Air – truly shocking visceral, footage that depicts the utter madness of flying in a metal box into a war zone.
Labels:
3D,
3D printing,
film recommendations,
New Wolsey Theater,
patterandchaos,
pattern,
research,
work
Wednesday, 21 December 2022
lightbringingmeaning
A morning with the pattern and chaos research group at NUA in a workshop with Melanie King exploring the photographic possibilities of phytograms. Some interesting possibilities. Onto screens - Watching RRR is a totally mind-blowing experience – you will see spectacles you have never seen before and couldn’t even begin to imagine, glorious madness. Season 2 of The White Lotus got darker and darker as the episodes progressed, twisted humour. Season 2 of The Capture will awaken the conspiracy theory in you, so layered. Roar is an insightful series of vignettes, rich in metaphor but not so far away from a truth. Triangle of Sadness was genius in its observation of people you like to keep at arm’s length, 3 chapters of madness!
Monday, 7 November 2022
latestbookandsmorefilms
The latest book, pattern magic, is going to be in a show in the Upright Gallery in Edinburgh. It was developed from imagery and ideas I encountered whilst working within a scientific context, as an artist in residence at Nano Doctoral center in Cambridge. The shapes were derived through the study of Penrose tessellation whilst exploring crystallography. I Laser cut the shapes of the spaces and used them as a masking device to create the spray-painted pages. The structure enables multiple juxtapositions, creating a playful experience as the pages are turned. Onto screens - Ruben Östlund’s Force Majeure – a truly disturbing experience with a truly vibrant soundtrack. After this and The Square I can’t wait to watch Triangle of Sadness. After finishing The Patient – a truly frightening set up with a truly bizarre script. Steve Carell is wondrously disturbing, and I was lost at the nihilism of the outcome. And then there was The System – good man, prison drama, corruption etc, On The Line – a radio show call in – with a twist or two maybe!
Monday, 29 August 2022
patternuniquepattern
Went to see the show at artstation, some interesting work and William Cobbing’s performance was very sweet, especially when working with the small children. A week of working on a new body of work – reflecting and building on earlier crystallography pieces the prints were generated using lazer cut paper and card. They started out as angular tessellations but were then manipulated to create a softer feel with curved edges. Although part of a series each piece is unique. The next stage will be to introduce some structure through folding, although some work as prints in themselves. I have a flag in the show at east coast pavilion at Lowestoft. Onto screens – want to feel like you have been blasted watch Nope, what did I just watch? - truly extraordinary. Top Gun Maverick does what it says on the tin if it had a tin.
Labels:
art,
colour,
design,
editioning,
film recommendations,
paper,
papercuts,
pattern,
pattern generation,
prints,
tessellation
Thursday, 1 April 2021
busybusybusy
Wood-Sun-Stone - Friends of Roger Ackling, a Group exhibition and presentation of the book ROGER ACKLING - OÙ POINT L'INVISIBLE by Lydie Rekow-Fon. I had a couple of pieces in this – I can remember a conversation with Roger about locating where the work was and maybe the smoke was the work, rather than the glorious wooden pieces. This has stayed with me and informs my own practice every time I think I’m making work. The studio is full of large scale folded structures waiting for a day of sun and no wind to be able to make some videos of the articulated pieces. Meanwhile another strand of work is looking at reflections - the work is both there and not there! Looking forward to being part of RESPOND - what will I receive? – how will I respond? @essencepress #BABEartistsbooksRESPOND. Just came across me sounding vaguely coherent and supportive of the use of architects in the architectural process - https://www.ribasuffolk.com/why-to-employ-an-architect check out those sideburns. Onto screens - Mollys Game – there is an interesting film in there but a little disjointed, Babylon Berlin – looks great but I think we know where this ends up. Lockdown – some great performances but…. Mitchelle and Webb, Back – not quite Peep Show!
Tuesday, 21 August 2018
privilegedfolding
The
folding and printing continues...with a view to thinking about editioning.
A
day out in Newmarket to take part in garden
of curious A'MUSE'ment - a project set up by http://www.unbosi.org/ - it was a kind of immersive interactive
theatre piece - if you have young children I recommend getting to see one of
their events - while there I dropped into The
National Heritage Centre for Horseracing and Sporting Art.
https://www.palacehousenewmarket.co.uk/
which was really intriguing - alongside
the really interesting objects connected to the sport of racing they have real
horses which you can stroke, which was cool. The art collection does document
the wealthy, privileged and questionable activity of the horse racing
fraternity through the ages. Meanwhile a link to the Pattern and Chaos research
page at Norwich University of the Arts https://www.nuapatternandchaos.com/ - recently uploaded my answers to a set of
questions -
Les
describes his practice and research as‘…searching for opportunities to be
in a place of not knowing’ Les sees Pattern and Chaos as‘…finding the
overwhelmingly extraordinary in the seemingly ordinary’ Les ‘s next big idea is‘…combining
the experience of working in the crystallography department in the Department
of Materials Science & Metallurgy, Cambridge with what was learnt
in synthetic anatomy at Kings, London to create public artwork
for a housing estate in Chelmsford with Essex CC and inspire a series
of handheld bookworks – it’s all about folding’ There is a symposium
coming up and the line-up looks interesting and worth checking out.
so
now to some films - do not watch the self indulgent possibly dubious (choose
your ism) Lost in London - Woody Harrelson
- the technical issue of one take is not interesting enough and apart from a 7
minute segment where Woody riffs with Owen Wilson which is funny it is bad. Meanwhile Orange is the New Black is
just too oppressive, maybe it always was. I quite enjoyed The Giver - although a lot of the ideas are retreads from previous
sci-fi tropes and actual films but it does look good.
Labels:
film recommendations,
fold,
folding,
gallery recommendation,
museums,
pattern
Monday, 9 April 2018
astitchintime
a busy week of planning and some making day as part of
making day at OCA - stitching line pattern and chaos - the front and of course
the back (as ever) some films - a rethinking the hardboiled detective with Proud Mary - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6421110/?ref_=nv_sr_1
and then there is the truly extraordinary you were never really here - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5742374/ it is a must see. Meanwhile looking forward to
Glasgow International - the planning is well underway http://glasgowinternational.org/
Saturday, 17 March 2018
theshadowandthevoid
the shadow and the void - continuing the work on the pieces for Goldlay in Chelmsford. The shadows and their relationship to the objects are really dynamic and have emerged even better than I had hoped.
Labels:
Goldlay Gardens,
Goldlay Square,
making,
pattern,
penrose tessellation,
sculpture,
steel,
tessellation
Friday, 18 August 2017
thefirstmechanicalcut
After much learning with illustrator the lazer cutting tests for the Goldlay Square commission look
good - really pleased with how the references have become heightened - the images of books opening and cell structures
'pop' out of the design. Also when you have a physical thing rather than the
digital you really get a sense of the scale. Other physical aspects of its materiality
become obvious such as how the design creates excellent
shadows.
Labels:
book,
cell,
Goldlay Gardens,
Goldlay Square,
pattern,
penrose tessellation,
research,
tessellation
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