Thursday, 21 February 2013
Wednesday, 20 February 2013
Research And images.
Daily Images I Capture From Life!!!
The daily walks of life on my daily travels as a photographer and what catches my eye thes are a few of the things,objects and non-objects of what i have shot as part of my research for my university project. Which is call things,objects and non-objects. These images are shot on a digital camera and shot in the day time the next step in which i would like to take is shotting on blcak and white. I will then transform these images into a piece of based on the fact of the word object or non-object so what i have tried to do and produce is a image of a thing or object and then print that image on to a series of different nature objects of everyday life such as wood,bark,stone,leaves,branches and grass.
These images are just some of the types of things,objects and non-objects that have caught my eye through the lens on a daily basis i love just walking around the streets and capturing all different walks of life in a different form of element.
Printing Photographic Images On Objects...
Printing On Leaves!!!
Printing On Stone!!!
Stone lithography was the first printmaStone lithography was the first printmaking technology that allowed a traditional artist to work using traditional techniques, and to create prints that could rival an original painting in terms of detail, mood and color variations. Stone lithography was popular for about a century during the 1800s, and is still practiced today by artists andlithography studios.
Ever since man first created his earliest works of art thousands of years ago, there have been two parts to the artistic process. The first part happens in the artist's mind, where he or she conceives of the idea that will be portrayed in the work. The second part happens in the artist's hands, as the idea is translated into a specific medium that other people can appreciate. Visual mediums can be quite diverse and include:
- Charcoal on cave walls (one of the earliest mediums)
- Charcoal, crayon, pencil, watercolor or ink on paper
- Oil paint on canvas
- Paint on wet plaster (fresco)
(We've ignored sculpture, music, dance, film, etc. and have focused on visual media that are comparable to the topic of this article.)
When the printing press first appeared on the scene, it opened up a new medium in the form relief prints. The artist could carve an image onto wooden or metal blocks, ink the block and impress it on paper. Relief printing created the first form or reproducible art.
The problem with relief printing is that the artist must carve the image, and the carving action is unnatural to an artist who normally works in a medium like paint and pencil.
Printing On Wood!!!
Ackroyd & Harvey
Biography:
Sculpture, photography, architecture, and biology are some of the disciplines that intersect in Ackroyd & Harvey’s work, revealing an intrinsic bias towards process and event and often reflecting urban political ecologies by highlighting the temporal nature of processes of growth and decay in sites of architectural interest as well as contemporary art galleries and museums worldwide.
They are acclaimed for large-scale architectural interventions and for their work making complex photographs utilizing the pigment chlorophyll; in 2003 they grew the entire vertical interior space of a disused church in South London, the following year contributed to European Space 9th Sculpture Quadrennial in Riga, Latvia and in 2007 realised their largest temporary living public artwork Fly Tower on the exterior of London’s National Theatre; they have received the NESTA Pioneer award, the Wellcome Sci-Art award and the L’Oreal Grand prize for Colour for their photosynthesis based photography and have exhibited this work worldwide including Void Gallery, Derry; SESC Mostra des Artes, Sao Paulo; Bios 4 Andalusian Centre for Contemporary Art, Seville; Big Chill, Herefordshire (UK); Chicago Public Art Program (USA); Agitate SF Camerawork, San Francisco (USA); Traits of Life Exploratorium, San Francisco (USA); Photography and Time V&A Museum, London (UK); Je t’envisage Musee de l’Elysee, Lausanne (Switzerland); Paradise Now Exit Art, New York (USA); Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston (USA); Rice Gallery, Houston (USA).
In 2012 they were awarded the ‘artist-in-residence’ position at University College London’s Environment Institute. This year they have re-created a work for the Points of View exhibition at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, USA and shown their 17min Stranded DVD at the Capital Offense group exhibition, Beacon Arts, Los Angeles.
In 2011 they were awarded the prestigious Mapping the Park commission for London 2012, a series of individual sculptures entitled History Trees at ten of the major entrances into the Olympic Park. Three of the sculptures will be present for the Games with the remaining seven to be installed for the opening of the Queen Elizabeth II public park. During last year they also exhibited in Terre Vulnerabili at Hangar Bicocca in Milan, continued a Slow Art residency at the Eden Project, were commissioned to make a short film for the What of Earth series, and showed a series of their crystal artworks at the Royal Society summer exhibition.
In the summer of 2010 they created a new commission for Trasparenze Art for Renewable Energy, at MACRO Testaccio, Rome and M.A.D.R.E in Naples, Italy.
Since 2003, they have made a series of expeditions to the High Arctic with Cape Farewell, looking at the effects of climate change on the ecosystem and have shown the resulting work Stranded, a 6m long whale skeleton encrusted with crystals at London’s Natural History Museum, the Liverpool Biennial 2007, Fundacion Canal in Madrid and Japan’s Miraikan Museum.
In 2007 they embarked on a long term project growing trees germinated from acorns collected from Joseph Beuys’s seminal artwork 7000 Oaks. Currently they have 250 surviving saplings and the trees have been exhibited at Manchester’s Centre for the Urban Built Environment (CUBE) and in 2009/10 at London’s Royal Academy of Arts Earth: Art of a changing world exhibition.
In 2008 they opened Twist, a landmark artwork twenty metres tall on the approach to the city of Bristol. The slate tower has integrated solar and wind-generating capacity produces sufficient energy to light itself. Ackroyd & Harvey have previously been recipients of two Royal Society of Arts Art For Architecture awards.
Ackroyd & Harvey have given many lectures and presentations, notably at the Nobel Laureate Symposium on Creativity, Leadership and Climate Change at London’s Science Museum; Planet Under Pressure, Excel Centre, London; Art & Alchemy, Trinity College, Cambridge; WWEE Forum, Smiths College, Oxford; Royal Academy of Arts, London; London School of Economics, UK; the Royal Society, London; Royal Institute of British Architects, London; Tate Britain, London; Royal National Theatre, London; Manchester International Festival, UK; Oxford University; Courtauld Institute, London; Harvard University, USA; San Francisco Institute of Arts, USA; Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, (USA).
Inspiration David Nash!!!
Visit David Nash at Kew - A Natural Gallery:
Open until Sunday 14 April 2013
David Nash, one of the UK’s most productive
sculptors, is exhibiting his work at Kew Gardens. The exhibition includes
sculptures, installations, drawings and film in place throughout the Gardens,
glasshouses and exhibition spaces. From April to September 2012, Nash worked
at Kew on a ‘wood quarry’, creating new pieces for the exhibition using trees
from the Gardens that had come to the end of their natural life.These new works are on display in the
Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art, the Wood Quarry as well as a
stunning piece in the Nash Conservatory.
Exhibition supported by Xstrata:
An evolving exhibition:
Come and see David Nash at Kew: A Natural
Gallery, an evolving exhibition from a celebrated British artist.
In a career spanning 40 years, David Nash
has carved sculptures from wood, many of them monumental in scale. After
carving, some pieces are then partially burned to produce a charred surface.
His main tools are a chainsaw and an axe to carve the wood, and then fire to
char it. Through his work, Nash has gained a deep understanding of the
properties of trees.
Nash’s sculpture invites you to reflect on
your relationship with nature in the majestic surroundings of Kew Gardens.
David Nash was born at Esher, Surrey, and
raised with his older brother Chris in Weybridge, Surrey where they both
attended preparatory school. Nash spent all his childhood holidays in
Ffestiniog, Wales.Nash helped clear and replant a nearby forest that his
father owned, and also worked for the Commercial Forestry Group. Nash learned
about wood of many kinds and learned he hated planting trees in rows.
Artistic career:
He attended Brighton College from 1959 to
1963, then Kingston College of Art from 1963 to 1967 and the Chelsea School of
Art as a postgraduate from 1969 to 1970. Nash was elected a member of the Royal
Academy of Arts in 1999. In 2004, he was awarded the Order of the British
Empire. A significant exhibition of his work is displayed in theYorkshire
Sculpture Park for a period in 2010/11. Kew Gardens currently has a working
exhibition, launched in June 2012. David Nash is working on site in a 'wood
quarry', his first for 10 years, to create new works at Kew.
Artistic creations:
David Nash is known for works in wood and
shaping living trees. His large wood sculptures are sometimes carved or
partially burned to produce blackening. His main tools for these sculptures are
a chainsaw and an axe to carve the wood and a blowtorch to char the wood.
Nash also makes land art, of which the best
known is Wooden Boulder, begun in 1978. This work involves the journey of a
large wooden sphere from a Welsh mountainside to the Atlantic Ocean. Wooden
Boulder is a large wooden sphere carved by Nash in the North Wales landscape
and left there to weather. Over the years, the boulder has slipped, rolled
and sometime been pushed through the landscape following the course of streams
and rivers until finally it was last seen in the estuary of the river Dwyryd.
It was thought to have been washed out to sea but, after being missing for over
five years, the boulder reappeared in June 2009[citation needed]. Indications
are that it had been buried in sand in the estuary. The sculptor had no idea of
its location, and enjoys the notion that wood which grew out of the land will
finally return to it.
www.davidnash.co.uk
www.wikipedia.co.uk
www.kewgardens.co.uk/davidnash
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