The final third year post.

The term is over and now my work has been taken out of my space and put in to storage. It's strange to see my work off of the walls but it is also a good feeling to know that I got through it all and I can now enjoy some free time while I wait for my results. I managed to get a decent photo of my final set up with out my support work on display and I also remembered to take a photo of my burnt print. This semester has been an enjoyable one and now I really look forward to entering fourth year.

Photo Taken next to my work.

One that's not so serious 

My work space without my work in it anymore.

I have applied for a studio over the summer so hopefully I will be able to keep posting up my progress on new works. I already have an idea for a massive painting that I want to do over the summer and I have already got a board prepared for it. I will also continue to create mixed media pieces through out the Summer too and I have other plans for when fourth year begins, I don't want to give too much away. I will have a lot on my plate this summer, finding a new job, moving away from home for the first time, writing my dissertation and working in my summer studio space. I have been packing my room away and it's amazing to see just how much rubbish that I have held on to over the years. I came across a lot of old pieces of work that I done when I was younger and I can see how I got to where I am now. It's nice to see the progress of work developing organically. 

Box sculpture is finally done.

The three textured pieces have been hung now.

Supporting work for the assessment

My partner kindly made me this great print holder too.

Its good to see my slide box sculpture finally being displayed properly

I thought I'd finish this post by sharing my personal statement that I wrote for this semesters body of work.

Yasmin Davidson

3^rd year Fine Art

Personal statement

Our perspective changes as we grow into adults, as children we look at everything through innocent eyes.

I remember I was always attracted to areas of danger; I enjoyed playing in decaying buildings, abandoned houses and factories. Me and my friends despite the risk would treat these buildings as playgrounds. We would make little boxes with objects in them and hide them for others to find or draw on the walls leaving trails and invented stories. I recall even the most mundane of objects having the potential to transform itself into something new something exciting. Here we could create our own worlds, ones that no one else could ever see or understand. To me this was a kind of freedom.

The attraction of these decaying environments and the thrill of possibly getting caught, still drives me to visit these places today discovering them anew. For me they hold a certain and unique kind of beauty.

In my work I hope to amplify these childhood memories through expressive, naïve and innocent gestures.

The physical materials I use to convey these places and emotions are often sourced directly from the spaces themselves and In doing so I want the viewer to feel the same excitement and urgency that I experienced in these places myself as a child.

Quick update.

Just a few more quick prints...

Setting up.

Third year is nearly over, there are only three weeks left until assessment and I'm now beginning to feel the pressure to finish things. I will be busy touching up pieces of work and hanging them. I have also started a few more pieces, I have been told by my tutor that I have too many things and that I have to choose what to show and what not too, some of the things that I first made at the start of this semester were test pieces so they can sit at the side and be shown as back up works and works of experimentation. 

I finally got round to making a small shelf for my book.

Another new piece of work. It's made from a scrap piece of metal, wood, putty and paper. I'm not too sure about this on at the moment, it doesn't look finished and I'm not that I even like it, I'll leave it aside and come back to it. 

I got round to making the screw covers for my wall hanging, I made them out of  plasticine. 

I made two new pieces of work using cushion foam, paper, felt and Lino. I'm really happy with how they have  turned out too.

 

I have also built a plinth this week in the workshop for my burnt boxes sculpture. I am planing to have dirt on top of the plinth so that the boxed look more like they have been found. I was also contemplating on planting grass seeds and leaving fag butts and glass etc on it too. I'm still not happy with it just now, I'm not sure how to have the boxes positioned but I think I will feel better about it once the dirt has been added.

Here are another set of new things that I have created this week, they still aren't finished yet.

small update.

Circles have finally been hung on the wall...

The wall hanging is complete. I still need to decorate the screws but I will take a picture of that in the next post.

Hands print is also done and mounted. 

I also made two new little drawing...

Another third year update.

I have been going back and finishing work that I have left. I got round to doing some more slides and now have only two more to print on so I'll have the slide box finally done by next week...

The circles are finally finished and will be hung on Monday.

I got my sculptural piece finished too.

Made a box frame for the house print

I have started making this wall hanging in the studio by knitting bits of paper together. It's been great but I am glad it's nearly finished! It's been a lot of fun painting my own child drawings and it's turned out well. There are three or four pictures in there that my sister's drew when they were around four or five. It's really massive too, I haven't got round to measuring it bet but I have a picture of it next to the slide box. I have also added some text as well by writing with my left hand. The text is quite dark compared to the colourful pictures and I talk about hiding and playing in abandoned buildings with my friend. I have decided to hang it with pegs too so it's like it's on a washing line and I will make plasticine covers for over the screws that are holding the rope together. 

I have came up with another piece of work for this last semester. I enjoyed knitting the paper so much that it gave me an idea for a massive silk screen print. I want to make a massive A0  print of my Auntie when she was younger, it's from an old photograph. Once I have the print I'm going to leave it in water and age it, then I will rip it and knit it back together. Here is the image...

This will be my final large piece for third year and I can't wait to start it. After this is done ill set up my space and work on smaller works.