Andrew Brookes:Photographer

After listening to Andrew Brookes talk, I felt a need to start taking photographs. His work was a type I haven't seen before. Photography from a different angle for sure. As a past student trying to get his name put out in the art world it is also an inspiration to hear his experiences. He talks enthusiastically about his new studio in Manchester and places he visited outside the EU. His photographs speak for themself, so have a look fo yourself. Next time you are taking a photo think about what you are trying to capture and all the possible ways of doing so from height to focus. 

Website: http://www.andrewbrooksphotography.com/view-main-gallery.php?id=31

Sunderland Art Prize Exhibition

Recently visiting Newcastle, I went to the Sunderland Art Prize Exhibition where my close friend Kimberley Emeny was doing a performance as well as showing a recorded video on a television of a performance she did whilst at Ashburn House. Knowing Kim over a year now I have learnt a lot, she is an inspiration to me.

The work she does I cannot explain or understand but it leaves me wanting more. She is on degree level at Sunderland University and is a performance artist. Performing live is an art I have not tried out myself, although who is to say what is and what isn't a live performance? I am inpsired by her work because it makes me look at my art work differently. I try recording a number of drawings by video or photographing samples to build up small videos as if they are telling a story; story telling an example of live perfroming. So try it out for yourself, think about outside the box as an artist, after all looking at sewing machines day after day can become tiredsome.

You can look at Kimberelys' other work online here:  

http://www.kimberleyemeny.com/index.html

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Interactive Street Art or Interactive Art Installation?

http://www.gaellevilledary.net/#!tapis-rouge

This installation shows a huge strip of grass that runs through the whole village. I love the photos on the website of children playing on the grass, people sitting on the grass, rather than the floor. the piece of art became something for people to interact with, to enjoy. It became a part of the environment, something to be enjoyed, rather than something to be looked at. If this had been done in a gallery would people have walked on it?

It got me thinking about the differences / similarities between street art and installation art, especially when the purpose of the piece is to facilitate interaction. The difference kind of disappears, the two different groups become the same thing. 

Maybe this is high-class street art?

Swoon: Street Artist

I saw this youtube video at Hotspur House today about a New York street artist called Swoon. The video follows her, the way that she works, what she does, why she does it. It's very honest and down-to-earth. 

I find it inspiring that she is so honest. She is unafraid of what she wants to do. She keeps saying, 'I sensed...' about what she does, that she follows her gut instinct, even if at first she has no idea why she is doing something. She follows her instincts, her heart, her passion. She doesn't bail out on herself. She sticks to her guns. And she reminds me of what a woman's passion can be. Sabrina Ward Harrison, another New Yorker, is another great example of a woman living her life as she feels she should live it.

The Art In Mapping

Dennis Wood

Wind chimes

In pursuit of a poetics of cartography, Denis Wood has created an atlas unlike any other. Surveying Boylan Heights, his small neighborhood in North Carolina, he subverts the traditional notions of mapmaking to discover new ways of seeing this place, the people who live there, and the nature of “place” itself. Together, these maps tell a story rich with poetic resonance. Individually, each creates an attentiveness to place, attuning the eye to the invisible and overlooked in order to reveal its significance. As he looks for ways to map what has never been mapped or what may not even be mappable.

Halloween Pumpkins

Mail delivery route

underground mapping

 

 

 

Critical Cartography

Lee Jang Sub

"Cities are living organisms. And their veins — the interconnected streets and walkways and alleys — are what keep the city’s vitality in flux. Each city has a different “circulatory system,” a different flow of its livelihood, a unique pattern that holds its cultural DNA."

I think this work is amazing, how an urban environment can be interpreted in such an organic way.

Jeremy Wood

Jeremy Wood is the author of this campus map of the University of Warwick.

 Commissioned by Mead Gallery, Wood walked around for 17 days and traced 238 miles of pedestrian paths to draw a map of 1:1 scale on foot.  The project, titled Traverse Me, was accomplished through carrying a personal GPS device which logged the route information.  He then took the outline of pedestrian movement and layered it on top of area images to create artwork for the university’s gallery.  These aerial images provide a sketch-like visualization of the surrounding environment.

Route taken mowing the lawn, thoughout the season.