Issey Miyake

A Japanese fashion designer.
I was interested in how he manages to add different 3D dimensions to his designs.

Christopher Boffoli

An artist & photojournalist who has created a range of miniature everyday scenes using tiny models and foodstuff.

Ben Wilson

Ben began painting gum on Barnet High street, and for the past 6 years has used chewing gum as a canvas for his miniature works of art.

I like how his art makes you look at the environment in a different way.

Eva Hesse

"Don't ask what it means, or what it refers to.  Don't ask what the work is, rather see what the work does." Eva Hesse

As my work was developing for the project 'Make a work that moves from one place to another' I started to create a few designs for a piece that could be sculptural based on the photographs I had taken of the Ink.  My initial design was very similar to work by Eva Hesse.  I was interested in how some of her sculptural work has a very fluid feel to it similar to mine.  Her work was a mixture of handcrafted and machine made - geometric shapes and soft curves.

Maurizio Savini

His work is created suing bright pink chewing gum and fiberglass.  His work includes a life size buffalo, a grizzly bear & a suited business man.

Nike Savvas

This installation 'Atomic - full of love, full of wonder' is made from thousands of suspended balls, creating an optical effect and was the artists way of portraying that atoms are the fundamental structural unit of all things.

Helmick & Schechter

I was fascinated by these installations - how they are made up of tiny objects which transform to a bigger picture.

Coventry Cathedral

My first thought for 'Use a Building as a Screen' was to look at Coventry Cathedral.  This is an incredible building, with so much history behind it.  It was designed by Sir Basil Spence and filled with art from leading artists at the time including; Graham Sutherland, John Piper, John Hutton, Sir Jacob Epstein, Elizabeth Frink and Ralph Beyer.

John Piper designed the captivating stain glass baptistry window.

The entrance to the building is through the Screen of Saints and Angels - 70ft x 45ft screen of glass etchings designed by John Hutton.  

Zaha Hadid

Zaha Hadid - an architect who pushes the boundaries between architecture and urban design.  Her work ranges from urban scale through to products, interiors and furniture.

A large use of curved features give her architectural designs a feeling of fluidity and movement.

Tilleke Schwarz

Tilleke Schwarz.

A textile artist who stitches 'maps' of modern day life.  She includes anything that moves or amazes her in a way that represents graffiti. I like how these seem to move across the canvas and each work tells a story.

Wolfgang Tillmans

Wolfgang Tillmans - Photographer and artist.

One of the most influential photographers of the 90's, and the winner of the Turner prize in 2000.
Some of his recent work is very abstract, displaying an array of beautiful colours created from a process in the dark-room using light sensitive paper.  I thought this series of work in particular captured a great sense of movement.

Welcome to BA Art & Design. 3 day Bournville Task

“A small print on a mailbox becomes something really precious when you remove all the noise around it from it’s setting” (Merel Karhof, project two).  Explore familiar or alien surroundings by isolating, documenting and displaying anything you think will create a new awareness of the landscape."

From exploring and photographing Bournville I began to notice all the patterns within the iron work - the gates, the windows, the weathervane, the doors. All of which contribute to the picturesque village, but some how get lost or hidden behind the bigger picture.  

Down Maple road, an old paper lantern stumbled down the street.  I attached some of my ideas to the colours and the floating origin that this lantern represented.

I simplified the patterns found around the iron work in Bournville to make stencils - keeping both the positive and negative designs - linking, extending, overlapping to make interesting and new designs.