Interesting Videos relating to shift

This shifting, almost instantly freezing lake has an amazing visual effect that I could imagine my space doing if it moved... The second Video I put up purely for its sound qualities....It sounds truly amazing and I think really expresses the my SHIFT space. This is a similar natural phenomena happening ( freezing lake shifting). 

Textures and artists work in Studio

Here are the Textures that we have made in our latest studio, we have to pick a couple and apply them to our google sketchup model...

Textures applied to my model...

Here Is Rosalie Gascoigne's Work within her SHIFT studio. This glass room has a viewing platform at one end, where she can look at the work from different angles to see the shifting light patterns and get an overall sense of the layout of her work.

Here Is Fiona Hall's artwork "Dead in the Water", a part of the soft pillow like structure that is her studio..

Evolution of my artists spaces

Here are some new images of the evolution of my artist spaces. The bottom space relates to the word SHIFT and still keeps much of it's original character. The pieces which are coloured would be made of visually heavier materials such as wood or metal, while the light spaces could be glass or even concrete. 

My top space relates to the word INTRICATE and shows a kind of form that incoporates imagery of roots and birds nests, the structure in nature that very much inspire Fiona Hall. The pieces appear to e separated in this image but will eventually come together. This is so I can work on them easily in sketchup without modifying other pieces in the process, yet being able to modify them if I want to.

STAIRS.... Sketches

Cross section of stairs from lecture...





And more sketches and ideas..













Final Stair experiments










My Stairs for the SHIFT section in sketchup. Potential materials could be concrete or metal for the stairs, while the surrounding space could be made of glass.

The Stairs for my INTRICATE section. The possible materials could be wood or metal.

Materials and Production methods of my artists

Rosalie Gascoigne

Rosalie Gascoigne uses a range of materials which are richly layered and give her works deep historical and cultural significance. She works with Found Objects, including old pieces of wood, signs, feathers, cans and offcuts usually arranged onto pieces of plywood or into other expressive forms. Her materials are a mixture of natural and artificial things, which when cleverly arranged provide beautiful contrasts, and explore the many themes within her work, which include the idea of landscape and place. They are also materials which are loaded with personal and historical value, as each material has been once used for a different purpose, and therefore has it's own story. Gascoigne is selective and critical with the materials she chooses for her final works. As she employs the technique of repetition, it is important that the materials she chooses are suitable for the composition, and through careful arrangement she is able to make even the seemingly simplest of materials express their most interesting qualities. Collection of materials is also an important part of her artmaking process, as it later informs the nature of her works, and allows her to connect with as many parts of the Australian landscape and different experiences as possible. She lives with her compositions and potential materials, and works on possible compositions until she feels they are right. She has a background in 'Ikebana', the art of Japanese Flower arranging, which is considered by many to be an artform in itself. She works in blocks of no longer than 3 hours, arranging, looking at and altering pieces until they come together.

Fiona Hall

 Fiona Hall's choice of materials are very important as they inform the social and political messages that her works are attempting to express. She, like Gascoigne uses a wide range of materials specific to each individual artwork,  emphasising what she wishes to express visually and intellectually. Some of her materials include beads, notes of money, vitrine, tupperware containers, metal cans, rubber, soap and laminex. Materials are assembled to create 'dialouges' within the works. Her production methods are very meticulous, precise and time consuming, as she creates works of intricate and normally miniscule detail. Her artmaking practice and production is also enriched by the research she does and has done, on nature, colonisation and museum practices, all of these strong themes within her work. She has a wide range of artmaking skills, including beading, knitting, carving and painting, each ( like her materials) adopted specifically for the type of work she does.  For example, the work 'Dead in the Water' uses pvc pipe, glass beads, wire and vitrine. The pvc pipe in the work has been meticulously punctured with tiny holes so that it's form has been transformed from something very crude, smooth and typically masculine to something more delicate and lacelike. Connected to the pipes are carefully beaded organic forms which are suspended below the 'waterline' of a glass tank. The beading on these forms is highly labour intensive, Hall's own statement commenting on social interchanges. the intricate beaded bags that are so expensive in the west are more than often being made by people in third world countries. Beads as a material were also once traded by colonising powers in exchange for land or food, another layer of meaning within the work. The careful arrangement of these separate materials and practices creates rich dialouges within the work, and interesting contrasts, making them visually appealing.

Changing spaces.. My old Draft sketchup models

I have decided to change my spaces into something completely different... This is my new lower space for Rosalie Gascoigne. The word is SHIFT . Imagine within these shifting studios there may be shifting 'blocks' to allow the artist to move around the space ... The Upper Space, I have been attempting to work out how to use the sandbox tool to try and create an organic ' sea anenome' style shape

Developing our spaces...

Here is the sketch that I have used as the inspiration for my 3D model. The upper space is inspired by Fiona Hall, and the lower by Rosalie Gascoigne.

Here is the lower 'space' created as a 3D model in google sketchup...

And the beginnings of the upper space.....

Sketches from Moleskine...

Here are the various different sketches for our design 101 class. They show different 'spaces' created above and below ground inspired by, and created for the artists and artworks in the last blog.

ARCH1101-2009

This is my HSC artwork, a group of sculptures created from various plastics that I placed upon a light box, to give them a rather disturbing artificial 'glow', as well as allowing the viewer to be able to see completely through them. They are based on the idea of the deep oceans, a place that is still extensively unchartered and a mystery to the human race. They also respresent both the intrigue and the fear of the unknown to the human race, who are used to dominating the earth and animal kingdom. I created these sculptures by collecting various plastics ( bottles mostly) from both my home recycling and a fantastic place called 'Reverse Garbage' in Marickville (http://www.reversegarbage.org.au/- a warehouse that resells industrial waste to the community for creative and practical purposes.) I then cut the bottles into various designs, melted them in boiling water and bound them together to create the a group of peculiar 'creatures'. Creating these sculptures was very 'developmental'. no sculpture was planned, but more so, came together by combining the various materials until each was visually interesting and complete.The photo doesn't do justice to the work... It is best seen in person.

'Hemesferic' - Santiago Calatrava

I find this building so beautiful as it is so suggestive of many forms, making it really interesting for people to interpret and explore in their own right. On first sight this building reminded me of two things. The first was an oyster with a pearl emerging from the depths of the ocean, and the second was a giant eye ( the image that inspired the architect himself) The inner ball is used as an IMAX theatre and planetarium..... and the building even has an 'eyelid' made of steel and glass, and operated by hydraulic lifts. In Calatrava's creative process he spends a lot of time drawing and sketching images of birds in flight, bulls, faces and other forms from nature. Many of his works are made from concrete, a material whose flexibility and fluidity is essential for the forms he creates.

I took this photo last year when I was staying in the city of Granada in Spain. It was taken during 'Semana Santa', the Spanish easter break in which every day of the week, statues retelling the story of Jesus' death and resurrection are paraded in the streets. There is an amazing atmosphere in the streets. Everywhere you go you can hear the strange almost off tune songs of brass bands or the beating of drums, and the air is thick with the smell of incense and baked potatoes, which are sold on the footpaths. I find this photo really eerie and beautiful, as the processions are themselves. I think this photo really emits the sense of ritual and tradition in semana santa, as well as showing it's energy. I love the way the darkness has cut off and framed the almost artificial white figure. It's almost as if the photo was taken peeping out of a window. I also love the rushing heads of the crowd, that kind of portray the procession as some kind of secret guild or cult ritual.

Fiona Hall

Dead in the Water, 1999

pvc pipe, glass beads, wire, vitrine

106.5 x 128 x 128cm

vitrine dimensions

Lure, oppose, intricate

Rosalie Gascoigne

Ledger, 1992

sawn/split soft drink crates on plywood

80.7 x 43cm

Glimpse, shift, evocative

Tracey Moffat

Heart Attack, 1970, 1994

Series of 9 images

off set print

80 x 60cm

Edition of 50

Narrative, stir, suggestive