Reflection Week - 22.10.23
Task 1-create ‘a mind map’
Task 2-Likes and Dislikes
MA fine art Chelsea college of fine art. She is socially engaged artist living and working in East Sussex. She makes ceramic sculptures and wall-based works that explore community and architecture and places of gathering. Motifs and fragments of modernist climbing frames and community centre murals appear throughout the work. Sculptural assemblages from interconnecting groups of objects, exploring co-operation and playfulness. The work evolved through ongoing research of materials. Found local clay, granite, quartz and iron stone where added to the glazes and clay bodies.
Disliked -cylinder not unique/ different / pastel colours/ so what feelings.
“This installation is inspired by 16th Century Hellmouth fireplaces which featured figurative ceramic sculptures in the form of little devils and other grotesques. They represent a fascination with the afterlife seen within many cultures. In dream terminology little devils also symbolise a person’s fears, regrets, worries or challenges. These stone ware figures are set against the back drop of a blue and white tile mural. Amidst a mental health crisis Jasmine is asking us to identify what our own demons may be and address how we can move beyond them.
DISLIKE-appears unfinished and badly displayed/unglazed bits/doesn’t resonate bearing in mind the objective of the installation.
‘Ponte was my favourite sculpture made 40 years ago…devasted to hear it had toppled off its shelf one day’
DISLIKE-An installation that has broken /not quite sure how to respond/should I understand the meaning and feeling behind the satements/isn’t that what happens to installations / environmental damage to make way for the new
Melia Shaw uses whale bone China. She collects bones heats and grinds them and then adds it to the clay.
LIKE-liked the organic feel, the beach background , reusing organic material to create froms in the shape of a whales inner ear. Intrigued with the idea of adding to the clay body and resulting outcomes.
‘1970 Ford Zodiac car covered in mosaic tiles and ceramic plates.It is inspired by Stoke-on-Trent’s rich and radical night life particularly Shelley’s night club. The bone china dinner plates and ecstasy pot lids were produced by the Duchess if China in 1888 Ltd. The car interior continues the nostalgic trip with videos from people that remember the time. ‘
LIKE-contrasting material/traditional tableware displayed as playful and iconic to the era/Fun.
‘A series of video, sculpture, and performance, exploring a playful ambiguous interaction between people immersed in moulds of formless clay.’
LIKE-elusive and incidental humour to the work/ slap stick humour / uncomfortable sounds/ body and language /entropy/lowly earthy clay/brough down by gravity and end up in the mud.