Painting Course

Painting Course

Painting Course Stages 1,2&3

Friday Crit

On Friday we had a group crit which was very much like at Camberwell we went round everyone's work spaces and showed work which was then discussed by the group, very informal. I unfortunately missed the end of the crit as I had my first Norwegian lesson After lunch. I showed my work which was a lot more design based than any other work. It was suggested that I should go to the cultural museum that I had not been to as some of the objects would link in with my work where I had been looking at etiquette. Richard liked my work and thought that it now needed polishing off and producing a finalised piece as what I had were more test pieces but that the experimenting should continue. I also needed to think about the designs social place and what glazes to use. 

Submarine, Stave Church, Work

4th Week

This week Richard is back and made plans to meet with him during the week, before a crit on Friday for the first year project that i took part in. On Monday there was a series of lectures, called the Poetics of the Second Hand. Caroline Slotte a masters and research student at the academy begun, I had seen her work before when she came over and too part in a lecture series at Camberwell.

 Susan Collis is an artist that has a sculptural background, that plays with the unseen and valuable. She took part Craft council exhibit at the V&A showing embroidered dust sheets and inlayed tables. I enjoyed her work an thought it was interesting how she has developed along the same thoughts and what she makes herself and what she collaborates with other craftsman on.

 Edmund de Waal is a ceramic instillation artist and a writer. His lecture was so complex in content ranging from his new book which looks at a collection of Japanese Netski that has been passed through his family. He is interested in Layering memories within object and using formats used in books and translating them to gallery spaces. He incorporates footnotes into his exhibits so that lead work is there but cannot be fully seem by the viewer.

 David Clark was a noted silversmith until he diversified into using lead and more conceptual pieces and pushing boundaries previously not crossed in the silver world. His knowledge of the material allows him to experiment, he uses brought objects and adapts they shape often incorporating lead. I particularly liked his most recent work where he drops his pieces out of the window, which causes interesting distortions.

Third Week

This week I begun attempting to make some design in clay. I was thinking about handles and how we hold things. I made some small coffee cups that I will hopefully fire next week. We took a bus out of the city to anywhere just to have a look and walked up Floyen. The city is covered in snow it glistens and is beautiful. This weekend we went skiing which was amazing. The train there went though some spectacular scenery alone the edges of lakes boarded by towering mountains. It was a tiring weekend but spectacular, the snow was fresh but the sun was out and every thing seem to be covered in glitter. 

Secound Week

This week I tried my hand at throwing. Richard my tutor has since told me that it takes at least a year of hard work to become any good at throwing, which made me feel better about my sorry excuse of an attempt. It was hard enough just to prepare the clay let alone produce something useable. First I kneaded the clay in the bulls head fashion then centred it on the wheel. Just to centre the clay took some time but once it was centred i was ready to go, only it had taken me all day to get that far and it was home time! I did produce some things that resemble vessels but none good enough to fire or think about using they were all recycled. 

I walked to USF which is the old sardine factory that has now been converted into many studios a cafe and theatre. Its location was beautiful on the waters edge with old relics of the sardine factory. I loved that decay, which reminded me of Venice with the water but an industrial mechanical version.

First throwing Attempts, USF and Frisk