Research

Unit x

Research

Within this project, I have widened my research resources to look closer to what I am as an individual artist. I am an artist, which uses many experiments to create pieces. I have undertaken research and identified artists, who work within the same manner as me, such as Robert Morris. My research entailed looking for everyday materials and look to see how other artists use space and sculptures to finalise their own artwork.

Evidence from research proves much more, however the research is only used to create an influence to my project, as I do not want to imitate other artists.  This is because I like to use my own innovative to create ideas for my project. During the research, I investigated towards how to manipulate materials and look for inspiration. Some of the research I identified relates to the materials I used.

Materials is the key concept towards my research, because I always use the everyday material and manipulate the materials in many challenging ways. Throughout the research for this project, I discovered that my practice is all about construction and deconstruction of the transformation of everyday materials. My aim for this project is to create a sculpture, which captures the statement of transformation. The topic of transformation research, took detail of my surrounding areas because everyday life influences my practice.

When I was researching about different contexts towards my work, I discovered that most of the contexts comes from what influences me, which elaborates meaning towards my work. Investigating about my surroundings in this project, allowed me to find some interesting facts about the Manchester School of Art. I took influence from the building to choose the colour grey for my sculpture, because I wanted to give back to the art school. With my deconstruction piece, I found that the reason why the school of arts chose concrete as the raw concept for the building is to create the sense of a factory. The concrete is treated with different surface finishes. Taking more consideration about how the building is set and why the concrete is so raw. I found evidence that rough is used in the back stairwells giving a sense of rawness and factory aesthetic.

This evidence gives my work a concept of why I have chosen to keep my sculpture to a simplistic look with the grey matching the concreate. Researching and developing my practice has given me focus towards my practice.

When I was doing the exhibition for the textiles in process I had a understand how to use scale and space with my work. I researched many different artists, which use space to influence their work, however using and developing my work in a space seemed more complicated than what I thought. I had to research and get an understanding of how I wanted my art piece to look in the space. When I first pitched for the space, I had some hard decisions to make because I was not allowed to pin into the concrete. I had to do some research into how I could still create my piece without upsetting the surroundings.  I took more detail in to shapes and spaces in which I could create my own standing sculpture. I researched and found that some artists were using many geometric shapes, though I wanted my piece to stay minimalistic. I chose to keep a simple shape because of the process I was using with the unthreaded ribbon. With my chosen space, I was happy with the outcome of my piece for the textiles in process exhibition, as the colours I had chosen stood out and creates the statement. With doing the research of the building, it helped me as an artist to understand how to relate back to my work.