Patrick Jean- pixels

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First year work

I was sorting out my portfolio from first year and thought I would photograph some of my favorite pieces of work i particular enjoyed working on.

This piece here of the door is the last project I did in uni. I had just picked to specialize in sculpture at this point and our project was about nature and what it meant to you. We were told to make a sculpture piece which would be placed in a wooded area called stewart's island. We were also told to look into bio-diversity and come up with a piece relating to this if we could. When beginning this project I decided to experiment with video and jotted down my thoughts and feelings when surrounded by nature. I began to notice I didn't particularly like being alone in this area and felt it was like entering a different world. With thorough development this is what my end piece was. I managed to get a very bland boring looking door, I then had two peepholes put into the door to look as though they were eyes. When looking through the peep holes you didn't see what you expected, your view was distorted and unclear.

For the body project My final piece were masks moulded from my face. I used plaster to cast the mould then using liquid latex on top. Each mask is different, the first mask has several layers of fake tan applyed on top of the latex mask, the second is painted with silver paint, The 3rd is a mixture of different coloured wax burned on top and the last one was how the latex mask looked like without the plaster cast. With this project I had been looking at the facial expressions we make when waking up and how these can be changed into something quite scary and creepy looking. Stelarc's robots were what influenced me with this work.

Here are some drawings I did in drawing weeks, some incomplete :(

For the place project I ended up producing a man made necklace out of newspaper and wire. This is something which I feel had great potential and I wish I could of expanded and developed this piece.

Here I have put together some of the sheets i did for the chair project. I didn't have an end piece for this project just lots of research and development. We were basically given a chair to reconstruct and then put back together then throughout this we got given a space in the uni where we had to come up with ideas.

Clint Enns

winnipeg stories: sacrificial memories from clint enns on Vimeo.

I loved this experimental film done by clint enns. He gathered discarded film footage to put this piece together. The music and the whole film generally makes my mind wonder and i love the way the films motion is so slow and soft. It's kind of like your trying to remember what a place looks like but it crumbles away before you can get the whole picture in your head. Would love to do a similar experimentation in the future.

Art Installation, Portobello Beach, Musselburgh

Whilst out for a jog yesterday I came accross an art installation at the end of portobello beach. I loved this so much, the fact the slot machines were still working inviting the public to interact. I went back down to get my own photographs when the sun was setting in the hope to catch the shadows of each slot machine in the sand and to capture the brightly coloured lights from each machine.

In the garden

There isn't really any purpose for this I just had a wee play with my camera in the garden and pretty much took some pictures of the things that caught my attention.

Claire Morgan, Motion Sculptures

After viewing the degree show there was a sculpture students work which stood out for me, her piece was of knitted wombs hanging from the ceiling but looked as though they were in motion. I wish I got a picture of this artwork but I vaguely remember it being about family genes.

Anyway after seeing this artists work below by Claire Morgan I realised where this sculpture student must have got her inspiration from. These sculpture pieces are amazing, at first glance the objects look as though they are in motion especially the strawberry blanket which has been carefully set up to look as though the strawberry's are almost falling to the ground gracefully. The artist uses mainly natural materials to make her work, things like strawberry's, fruit and flowers attached to nylon thread. It is understandable how this artist achieved a first class degree whilst studying at university.

Here are some of the images I took at the Gray's Degree show. I absolutely loved the ball of mice, the artist has chose a not so nice theme of dead rodents but has captured their form beautifully. After speaking to the artist briefly she explained how her idea came about by her pet cat bringing home dead mice.

The subway train caught my eye by the interesting viewpoint, some of the other paintings were painted as if looking threw a fish eye lens and this is like a mirrors reflection. Finally the last three paintings..ones which made you feel strange when viewing. I don't know why but i felt as though I was going to fall over, maybe because of the overlapping and distorted parts of the painting, im not really sure. The paintings were done well but I was definitely squinting and confused with what was going on, but I guess that's the whole point.

Excellent degree show and the fourth year painters and sculptors were definitely my favourites, wish i got some more pictures taken!

ECA Degree show

This picture is difficult to see but basically it was lots of peeled bark on board with varnish and paint applied ontop.

Throughout June I visited ECA (Edinburgh College of Art), Duncan of Jordanstone, and Gray's school of art's degree shows. Unfortunately i missed glasgow's degree show and i'm pretty gutted about that as i heard it was really good.

It was great seeing the talent from each art school and it just gets me excited for fourth year although i don't want it to come too soon! ECA and Gray's shows were both amazing, the type of work that really made you go wow. Dundee's was good although it didn't have that wow factor edinburgh and aberdeen's shows did.

Here are some of the pictures I took on my phone of my favourite pieces from ECA's degree show...

Johan Grimonprez Exhibition

I went to see Johan Grimonprez's exhibiton at the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh at the beginning of the month. This artist is known for his films and his most well known pieces are 'Double Take' and 'Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y' a film collage about airoplane hijackings which include cartoons and propaganda films. I quite liked his piece 'Double Take', which is a sequel to his film 'Looking for alfred'. At first i was a little confused as to what was going on when i first viewed 'Double Take' as the film kept jumping from documentary footage to film. I soon clocked on that the film was about and by Alfred Hitchcock with TV stories and reports from the cold war. I feel asthough the only reason i enjoyed this piece was because i am a fan of Alfred Hitchcock and found his doppleganger quite amusing.

The exhibition on a whole was interesting and although his videos lasted up to 90 minutes, you found yourself not being able to leave your seat. For me i would probably rate it 3/5..

Right so far i've finished 1st year at grays...passed the year so pretty chuffed i've gotten into sculpture! Summer's started and already i'm bored.....pretty glad ive been given a summer project to do as i wouldn't know what to do with myself :(
Anyways the brief we were given is pretty vague... just telling me what sorts of galleries i should attend ,newspapers i should read and radio channels i should listen to and so on. So far i've signed up to some mailing lists at some of my favourite galleries in Edinburgh (my home town) :) as im goin to be staying here till september time.
Exhibitions i will definately be at are
the city and stars exhibition at the Stills gallery
Johan Grimonprez exhibiton at the fruitmarket gallery
Both the all sided games and the Torsten Lauschmann exhibition at the collective gallery
There's so many i want to see but these are a must at the moment and i'll be sure to blog on what i think of them..

:)

Stolen Horse from sam spreckley on Vimeo.

An animation by Spreckley... completely different and didnt even seem as though it was by the same guy. All the same its a nice song and it makes me happy...hope you like :)

Sam Spreckley

Thought study (remix) from sam spreckley on Vimeo.

Was at the Aberdeen Gallery last week and came accross a really interesting video by a guy called Sam Spreckley. Actually love his videos after watching a few on vimeo. The start of the video kinda reminds me of the ring where youd watch that creepy video and get a phonecall afterwards telling you you'd die 7 days later. I love the editing and how eery the video is.... I was pretty speechless after seeing it for the first time but I feel so inspired to actually do some work... He's definately become a favourite of mine.

The Start

First post.. cant believe it's taken me a year to finally get this started... It's guna be good so keep on reading...it'l be fun you'l love it.