Our groups name....

Any ideas to what you want our group to be called???

Flower/ Pattern Based Theme?

It seems like we are going into a pattern/flower based theme??

I came across this and thought it was quiet cool =D

Reach for Light: a Skateboard Flower Sculpture

  

Reach for Light is a Skateboard Flower Sculpture made by Ted Hunter form Roarockit Skateboard Co. The flower petal designs are actually printed using photo’s of real tulip petals. It was shown on 2005 at the Wood Turning Center in Philadelphia.

The flower

William Morris

These ideas are great! To link back to flowers, I'm almost obsessed with flowers and nature, some artists you may be interested to look at are Georgia o keefe, william morris, cy twombly, Bougeois...

I was thinking of going on a trip to Hauser and Wirth gallery to see a collaboration of Louise Bourgeois and Tracey emin. Their work is quite simmilar, you can tell Emin is inspired by Bourgeois and it would be interesting to see a collaboration and its outcome.

Guess which is which, one is Emin one is Bourgeois :)

Louise Bourgeois 'The Fabric Works' is also a great book, I find bourgeois' use of fabric and drawing very interesting and her use of the flower form. I think theres a book on her flower drawings at the whitechappel gallery, i'll try to find out.

Louise Bourgeois

I like the form of the flower because it symbolises so much, love, loss, life... and each flower has its own connotations and a story attatched.

Simple yet Detailed

Thinking more about flowers/plants.
I think this print by Isabella Hessel called White Baroque Flower is really interesting.
It is simple because of it's monochrome nature but it is still quite detailed. I don't know how everyone else feels about print making/graphic work but I think just this piece is simple yet elegant and although it is 2D I think it can inform us quite a lot about the delicate and complicated nature of a flower yet we can still make it look simple.

Cast vs Imprint?

I really like the 'cast' ideas.
This is my favourite from Whiteread's work above, where the cast of a bookshelf is made.
I think a cast of something natural like a flower could work really well since with limited time we should stick to simple and small scale.
I think this artwork of a flower imprint is quite simple yet effective, it reminds me of shells on the beach you find in stone.
Maybe some 'pressing' into clay/plaster with natural plants?

Just some ideas...

I took a few random pictures and wanted to show the negative side to it, since am doing sculpture and installation it reminded me of the opposites of a cast? And I like the negatives more than the original picture.

NEGATIVES:                                   ORIGINAL:

 

 

 

So I was thinking maybe make casts? By dipping the original into plaster so everything is covered and crack small parts to show a bit of the inside piece? 

I like Rachel Whiteread's work: Embankment.

http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/unileverseries/interactives/index2.html

We do however have to keep in mind that we don't have a lot of time to make something as a group, so keeping it simple may be better, so this idea might be time consuming?

Hope to see some of your ideas =]

hello:)