Final Concept Pages

Portfolio Pages Drafts

Continuous Line

Continuous Line drawing by Will Scobie

Collage

I decided to have a go at doing a collage myself in the style of Charlie Engman, using odd body parts and limbs

I really liked the simplicity of just using two different images. I tried layering them up with more cuttings however i preferred the starkness of just taking an abstract part of the body and adding an odd limb. It is amazing how this simple process can distort the body so much.

Charlie Engman

Charlie Engman's work explores and distorts the human form.

His collage work uses limbs to create unrecognizable versions of a human form, conjoining different body parts.

His models bend and contort together in his photographs, making it difficult to see when one person ends and another begins. He never leaves their faces visible either making it seem even more like there is just one form rather than two as each body becomes indistinguishable.

I love his drawing, the quality of line and detail suggested is beautiful. It is similar to Jenny Saville's work in that it shows the body in motion, creating joined forms. His work also shows the interaction between people and their body language, and how bodies interact with each other in different positions and situations.

Concept Boards Drafts

Double Exposure

From Photo Trouvee

A multi exposure is when two or more individual exposures are made to create a single photograph. The photos are similar to Jenny Savilles drawings, showing the movement of the subject and/or photographer, creating the appearance of more than one subject, and a joined and distorted form.

Freddie Robins

"My studio practice questions conformity and notions of normality, and intersects the categorisation of art and craft. I use knitting to explore pertinent contemporary issues of the domestic, gender and the human condition. I find knitting to be a powerful medium for self-expression and communication because of the cultural preconceptions surrounding it. My work subverts these preconceptions and disrupts the notion of the medium being passive and benign. My ideas are expressed through an exploration of the human form and have resulted in pieces such as "Odd Gloves" and "Odd Sweaters". These series question physical normality incorporating both humour and fear"

William Hundley : Things I do In My Garage

I like the way William Hundley connects different objects to create one piece. I think the way we see conjoined and even non conjoined twins like this, although they are two separate people we see them as one. Their relationship is so unique, to outsiders it can be a strange and alien thing.

Jenny Saville

These drawings by Jenny Saville show the subject in different positions, so you can see their movements. Their limbs look like they have been removed and repositioned until the figure distorts and it is difficult to see a complete human form, instead it appears there are many people in the picture.

Conjoined

What are conjoined twins?

Conjoined twins are generally classified three ways:

• 73 per cent are connected at mid torso (at the chest wall or upper abdomen)
• 23 per cent at lower torso (sharing hips, legs or genitalia)
• 4 per cent at upper torso (connected at the head)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/

Main Entry:	connect
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	combine, link
Synonyms:	affix, ally, associate, attach, bridge, cohere, come aboard,conjoin, consociate, correlate, couple, equate, fasten,get into, hitch on, hook on, hook up, interface, join, join up with, marry,meld with, network with, plug into, relate, slapon, span, tack on, tag, tag on, tie in, tie in with,unite, wed, yoke
Antonyms:	disconnect

6 Degrees of Seperation

Six degrees of separation (also referred to as the "Human Web") refers to the idea that everyone is on average approximately six steps away from any other person on Earth

Lucy Orta

Lucy Orta's Refuge Wear collection deals with the issues of a modern society, and aims to provide modern usable solutions as well as attempting to involve people in their urban environments.


"By involving individuals in difficulty, whether isolated or as part of a group, and encouraging them to participate in collective actions consisting notably of producing Refuge Wear or Survival Kits, the artist clearly raises the question of the citizen, underlining his role as a part of the whole"


I like that she creates pieces which involve people, and draw them together to participate in society.

Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion

It may have taken two attempts, but I did eventually get to have a proper look around the exhibition.

"Challenging established Western notions of beauty and, using clothes as an autonomous form of expression, they turned fashion into art"


Featuring work by Issey Miyake, Rei Kawakubo and Yohji Yamamoto, the exhibition explored the innovative uses of material and construction techniques.

Miyake's A Piece of Cloth concept was one which I found really exciting. He used a single length of fabric which emphasized the relationship between cloth and the human body. He also developed fabric weaving at the point of manufacture, doing away with traditional seams.

I also found his newest project, 132 5, particularly inspiring. Flat folded fabric turns into intricate clothing when placed on the body. This method created beautiful geometric shapes and origami like folds.

Sketch I drew at the exhibition


I also found Rei Kawakubo's work incredibly inspiring. Her work challenges perceptions of women and mens dress. She also experiments with oversized, enveloping garments as well as distorting the body form, as seen in her Body Meets Dress, Dress Meets Body Collection.


Loose forms and volume are often experimented with and I think the silhouettes created by subtraction cutting are very similar. I think what inspired me the most about this exhibition was the designers approach to creating new construction methods and using fabrics in an unexpected way.


www.barican.org.uk

Julian Roberts Subtraction Cutting

Julian Roberts is the inventor of subtraction cutting, and he describes it much better than me

"Subtraction Cutting is an approach to garment designing that allows for trial and error, chance discovery, multiple flipside viewpoints, and the ability to cut fast & loose without too many overbearing reference to numbers, or rigid mathematical rules"

His diagrams are clearer as well

"In going slightly awry, they (students) can create garments that have never before been cut, so they unexpectedly find themselves thrust onto the cutting edge of new innovation."

I think that is what excites me the most about subtraction cutting, every time you can create something different. Because of the experimental nature of subtraction cutting it was a more free and creative process than normal pattern cutting, designing the garment as you went along.


http://www.julianand.com/school/THEBANANAMILKSHAKE.htm

Subtraction

Subtraction cutting is a more experimental method and relies less on mathematics than conventional pattern cutting. 

My notes from the lecture.

Photographs from the lecture.


I really enjoyed learning about subtraction cutting. At first I was a bit dubious, as pattern cutting can be complicated and very technical, however the fact that we managed to make a half size dress in a day is proof that actually it is an easy process. The results were also amazing everyone ended up with a different outcome, and it was an exciting way of creating interesting draping and volume. I would definitely consider experimenting with subtraction again.

The end result!

Evan Festenfeld

Communication

"During this project you will explore the idea of language and communication. Interaction through touch, sound, movement and dialogue, should be explored, and inform research path"


When considering communication the word connection seems to be a common thread through my thoughts. Whilst technological advances have meant we can connect to more people than ever, whenever we like, we seem to be losing contact with each other in reality. My research will explore the different connections people make with one another, and how to make more people connect.

Process Art

Term applied to art in which the process of its making is not hidden but remains a prominent aspect of the completed work so that a part or even the whole of its subject is the making of the work.


www.tate.org.uk