[Gallery visit number 10] Mapping Alternative Ulster

Different ways of looking at the land.

John Mckeagney:

Johnny is an Irish artist who lived in Co. Fermanagh. Mckeagney explored his locality in intricate detail, walked everywhere and spoke to everyone. Through hundreds of A3 posters he charted his local town lands, villages, lakes and rivers, but also the birdlife, local traditions, history, songs architecture and anything else that caught his interest along the way.'

Friend Map: John Carson.

I really loved this concept of placing a photograph of your friend and placing it on the location in which they live. Carson got a shop bought map of Belfast and went round to visit all of his friends and he took and printed a photograph of each person placed them in their location and then connected them all together with lines. This was by far my favourite piece at this gallery.

Mapping the Map - Catherine Porter and Keith Lilley.

A Map of Hannahstown - Eamonn Mccrory

Omagh Metro System - Benny Sweeney.

Cat and Mouse - Anne-Marie Dill

The Missing City - Forum for Alternative Belfast.

The Map of Connections 3.1 - Garrett Carr

Isolarion 1 - Seamus Dunbar

I really enjoyed this interaction piece by Dunbar. One day he decided to walk along an old railway track that ran from Enniskillen to Sligo. It had been closed since 1957 and decided to document and sketch his whole journey from Enniskillen to Sligo. 

[Gallery visit 9] Golden Thread Gallery.

Cut and Stuck.

 

Fashion and Textiles work shop

We were told to cut out shapes and rearrange them on the black paper and document them. The contrast of the black and white really make the designs pop.

Mood Boards:

Selecting colours carefully that are seen in the image you have selected. 

Form

 Jewellery workshop.

We were shown the 4 main parts of jewellery and prior to the workshop we were told to bring in material to do with each area of jewellery.

Plainer: using various objects to create a sculpture, this can be different things combined; such as Tapestry backing, mesh sacking or lazer cut material. 

Pierced Plane: a flat piece of paternal with shapes or designs cut out of it; materials such as - ribbon, leaves, wire, paint sample.

Linear: sculpture made with straight lines e.g. Wire sculptures. Materials such as croche hook, string, chopsticks or rubber bands.

Volume: using objects to create a sculpture with volume, e.g wood, felt, tubes or polystyrene.

I began to experiment with recreating a snowflake shape made out of straws. 

Then I decided to use my very own object that i had selected from the beginning of the task and create different shape using the pegs to do so. For decorative effect I painted them with white acrylic and then painted the shape it was in a pattern using black - in order for it to have a strong contrast and stand out.

Experimenting with the object:

We had a workshop with Lauren Scott from Textiles on the 6th of December , we began by having a presentation about her work and she showcased all the amazing opportunities her work has provided her.

I really admire Lauren's work at how rustic and hand made it looks. I love how when you witness the animals for the first time you cant help but feel on edge at their creepy grotesque appearance. But as you look closer at these amazing animals the more you love them due to the intricate patch work.

Lauren then told us to do sample of weaving and patch work relating to our work and these were my final results:

We also had a ceramics workshop and presentation with Lauren's twin sister Julie Scott who's main focus in life is Ceramic's. 

Her ceramic sculptures are stunning and the process interested me so much that i was considering on doing it after Christmas.  

               

Julie then gave us the task of making sample pieces of your object out of clay.

These are the final results.

The process of preparing the Clay:

TOUR OF CERAMICS DEPARTMENT