2006
Mixed Media
Status: Available artwork
Study Work Nov 2006 from Site Specific Works (since taken down). More images
can be found on this
page.
Materials: Paper/Brown Bubble Wrap
This work works with the internal architectural structure as well as against it - "The shadows (images can be found on this page) take on the flatness of the floor by creating a hole while the shadow on the wall forces the white part of the wall to come forward while at the same time the shadow is trying to make the wall read horizontal."
"This unit provides an opportunity to explore different ways of working without the traditional constraints of a flat 2D surface and a frame (as in painting and drawing) or reliance on internal structure of armature (as in sculpture). 'Site specific' art involves the site as being the starting point for the making a work of art, rather than an idea/subject matter. This is a reversal of the art making chain:
idea > material > artwork > display site
now becomes:
display site > idea > material > artwork
The meaning of a site specific work is intimately tied to the site that it occupies. If the work was to be removed from its site it would lose its meaning and function. This means that meaning is no longer internalised in a work of art, instead it spills out and occupies the same space as the viewer."
SPACE - The aim of our Term 2 course (as well as a continuation from Term 1's 'relationship between the artist and their materials) was "the investigation of the non-mimetic aspects of the space that the art work and the viewer share. The focus travels from the surface of the art work, into the 'marked' site, and to the viewer".
