#1 was made by EmmaJ, Janina, Saruhan, Saoirse, Nicola, Jelena, Claire,
Tanya, EmmaS, Annelies, Heather & Janet
#2 was made by Sam, Kerry, Soo Hyun, Daniel, Mica, George, Shigeyuki,
Ashley, Marco, Tristram and Tina
Big thanks to Pete & to Steve.
Made during WSD study week.
Once an hour I stopped and filmed whatever was in front of me
and read a verse from ‘God’s Away On Business’ (Blood Money, 2002) by Tom Waits
Being Watched/QuickTime/20MB/1:57 min
A short film made using clips from the ‘videos being watched now’ section of YouTube
The music is ‘God’s Away On Business’.
A week’s experiment with splashes.
I wanted to do a controlled experiment with various items being dropped from 30 inches.
However when seeing the pieces upside down, I prefer them, and found them to have an almost jellyfish like quality
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Made from materials found in a derelict, burnt out barn.
(Click on the poster image for a larger view)
I was interested in the art methods adopted by the artist Jackson Pollock
who incorporated chance and performance into his work. I wanted to create
a piece of art which incorporated this method of working.
To establish how I would do this, I choose 3 categories which consisted
of Medium, Object and Colour with a maximum of 8 choices in each category:
For example, paint brush size no. 4, circle, purple.
I used www.random.org to decide which number sequence I would have to use
and produced a table with the results, from which I would work and produce
my final piece.
Boundaries/QuickTime Movie/2010/14.6MB/42 secs
A short sequence taken from a full film walking through a 3D environment
exploring the boundaries between reality and fantasy.
Regime/QuickTime Movie/2010/103MB/2:30 mins
As an artist my interests are photography and moving image. In my studio practice, I have used still photography in Flash and I Movie to create stop-motion film. My research has been about the social and cultural effects of beauty and the industry that surrounds this. In my research, I have identified cultural changes to the ideal of beauty and in the formation of the beauty culture in western society, and the effects this is having on gender identity. Identifying the factors that have influenced this, I think that the media, film and cosmetic beauty counters have had a huge effect on the public’s perception of beauty. In my work I have recorded the processes that women go through in order to achieve this image of beauty, from scrubbing to plucking and the time that is consumed in these regimes. I have used a dressing table as a main stage to illustrate the performance of social and cultural politics surrounding the beauty industry.
Re-think, Re-live, Re-use/QuickTime Movie/2010/56.3MB/1:25 mins
A short campaign advertisement designed to make people think before they throw out waste.
The film encourages people to reuse and think about the impact they are having on their environment.
Fragmented Lives /QuickTime Movie/2010/7.5MB/1:17 min
FragmentedLives #2/QuickTime Movie/2010/8.6MB/1:02 min
War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
Thomas Mann
Documentation of an installation.
