Emma, Lady Hamilton

It's been a while since I uploaded any of my photography work, don't know why, guess I just forgot about it. Well I have remembered it now. This is another of my recreations of a portrait of Emma, Lady Hamilton, painted by George Romney. I didn't know much about Lady Hamilton when I decided to do the recreation but I have just discovered she was the mistress of Horatio Nelson, who knew, right. Clearly not me. Granted they are not that accurate but I got carried away with how beautiful Georgina looked I just started doing my own thing instead.

Miscellaneous

I love that word, I think it is just so cool. Any who, here is a little collection of indiviual drawings I grouped together.

Ace Attorney

 

I happen to be a fan of Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney and as tribute I thought I would do a little picture of the gang together.

Comics

No matter what I am doing in my practice I eventually get bored and go back to drawing. I have always wanted to have a go at drawing manga, but I have never quite gotten around to it until now. After doing alot of copying and watching Mark Crilley's youtube channel to hone in my skills I felt confident enough to have a go at drawing some comics from scratch. These comics are a documentary of all the funny stuff my sister has done in real life.

Gravity- Vlatka Horvat

As part of the Gravity Lecture series guest are required to bring an object of significance with them and honestly I was more interested in Horvats object that I was her art work. Her object was a wooden picture frame that had seen better days. She described it as mainly a hole, a negative space that contains, encompassess things. After all it is the frame that frames the real thing that you are meant to be looking at. It is a supporter. An empty frame becomes the site for projection and imagination. When a frame is broken, its bondaries are broken and the thing that it contains threates to leak out.

A room can be a frame, a space of possiblity. Horvat interfears with the aspects of a room, what could and should be done in it. That aside I accutally dont like her work, even though I wrote three pages on her, mostly it was description. Its not that I dont like installation work, I do, and I understood what she was trying to acomplish, I just dont like what she creates. The onlt work I did like was Beside Itself, which was made up od long carboard strips that spiralled out from the center of the room becoming more square in its shape as it reach the edges of the walls. Because it was so close to the walls it meant there was only enough space for people to walk single file around it. Some people said it felt like the piece was pushing them against the wall and it felt quite confronting.

 

Beside Itself

Transmission- Chris Kraus

Kraus is an LA based writer and has wrote a number of artist reviews and books on artists. Recently she has written a novel and thats what she talked about. For the lecture she read one chapter from the new novel, which took her 5 years to write. For me personally I was more interested in her as a writer and how she came up with ideas for her book and character profiles and such, which wasn't the point of the lecture. I did find the lecture quite boring because I was being read to, I think I might have enjoyed it more if I had the book in my hands and was reading it to myself.

Gravity- Malcom Le Grice

Very interesting man, likes to talk alot, I have the feeling he could have gone on all night about his work and it was really nice to see that he enjoyed talking about his work. According to Le Grice he is very anti-narative against cinematic viewing of video art. When he makes a film he never starts with a theory, always the materiality of the object. He became interested in the faults of cinema and its imperfections of home videos. His most famous work is the Berlin Horse, which is is a combination of nedative and colour slides with sound track on a double projection. the sound track is quite unusual but after a while can become quite annooying as it is played on a loop. Loops being what Le Grice was experimenting with at the time. Because Le Grice doesn't use narative in his videos some of them come across quite weird and bizar, he does this because he believes his interpretations shouldn't guide our interpretations. I enjoyed most of it, although towards the end it was going on for a bit too long.

Transmission- Patrisha (Trish) Lyons

Lyons topics of the talk were optical illusions and figure ground and technology. the first half of the talk she spent talking about Penrose Stairs and showed us clips from animals in nature hat camoflaged themselves. There was one clip of an ocutipus that was really good, you can probably find it on youtube. She also showed us this one clip by Alvin Lucier, called I Am Sitting In A Room (1969). It is 45 minutes long and in the video the american composer, who has a strutter records his voice in a room. He then plays the recording in the same room and records the recording. He does this a number of times until you just get sound which is the resonence of the room. Which I think is pretty cool. The second half she spent talking about how all humans are machines, just made from flesh and blood instead. she also talked about the film Blade Runner with Harrison Ford, and how inorder to figure out whether someone is a cyborg he asked them about their relationship to animals. Not sure how this was all meant to relate to agency, but oh well.

Transmission Lecture Series- Lucy Reynolds

Another one of our lecture series is Transmission which this years is about Agency (Labour, Work, Action). Last tuesday we were given a lecture by Lucy Reynolds. Reynolds is interested in the digital community, the materiality of film and the disscourse that surrounds it. According to Reynolds she is a Jack-of-all trades, working across different mediums. She also has a very strong feminist agenda.

At the Camden Arts Centre she held an exbihition inwhich she asked a number of artists to make films no more than 30mins long which could be looped. For her it created an interesting sense of authorship and collaboration. Her film work explores the political and gender conflict in landscape and culture.

Gravity Lecture Series- Luke Fowler

As part of the Creative Art Practice course I am on at Sheffield Hallam University we have a Gravity lecture series, in which practicing artists talk about their work in relation to the theme of the lecture series, which this year is atmosphere. Last thursdays lecture was by video artist Luke Fowler a nominee for the 2012 Turner Prize.

Fowler’s work combines archival and new footage in such a way that they convey something of the personal and political dynamics of a range of countercultural figures and movements. In the lecture he spoke about the importance of sound in film and how imagery and sound work together.