2006
Mixed Media
Status: Available artwork
Study Work Nov 2006 from Site Specific Works (no longer exists). More images
available here.
Materials: Stretched White Canvases
"..is this about painting or sculpture? Or is it both? Or does it slip betwen the two, and if it does what is this space? The moment one places a stretched primed canvas into the viewer's space it brings the history of painting. However by placing it on the floor does it become an object because one can walk around it?.." Peter Adsett (tutor)
"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".
