Anna Ray Professional Proposal seminar

First workshop 17th June 2020

In preparation for the workshop with Anna Ray we were asked to be prepared to do some work. I developed some initial sketchbook ideas (see 1 and 2 below)1 into a series of drawings. These were two dimensional images that I took into a corner and then a cube.

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insert pictures from the smaller sketchbooks here

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Second workshop 24th June 2020

We reviewed the work as set out below as a group and discussed problems and issues one might encounter.

Making the scaled paper sculpture from prints some photographic prints that I had unearthed during my studio rearrange. I applied my system the back of the pieces and cut them out. I decided to stop cutting at a certain point that felt right as the piece had a good weight to it with some left uncut. I then also used some black spray paint and the cut out acted as a stencil.

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This made two pieces that I could place in the scaled gallery and lit them. I moving the sculptures around and also turning them around to show different material properties of the surfaces.

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Progression since the second session with Anna Ray 24th June 2020

I went back into the studio and made some more pieces. During a tutorial with Michael Wright, it was suggested that I use my prints to make sculptures. So I this second time I took a photographic print from a collagraph print I had made. See the images below for the original prints and collagraph plate.

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I cut it up the inkjet print outs, folded into a shape and sprayed the back with a colour I had decided upon because it is a colour Phyllida Barlow had used on the works she made for the show at the Royal Academy, Cul-de-sac. The red tape I used to make the plate originally also is referenced in this paint choice. I had really been attracted to this colour as it reminded me of many markings I see on the pavements and road on my walks. This gives it a reference to my rituals and my everyday environment. As I use colour very scarcely presently I feel drawn to using some colour and this red neon felt right.

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I have imagined these pieces as fabricated in possibly aluminium, spray painted with the neon red side and possibly etched or laser etched on the printed/unprinted side. My next step is to make some maquettes in plaster and see how the materials stand up in heavier materials as I have not made floor pieces only wall and leaning pieces.