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Sculptor Rachel Whiteread was the first female to win the Turner Prize in 1993 for best young British artist. She also has the unique accolade of winning, in the same year, the K Foundation Art Award for worst British artist. Whiteread’s signature work involves large-scale casts of the interior space of objects, both everyday objects […]
Project 1 – Moulding from a surface The moulding relief paste was far and away my favourite medium for this exercise. The paste combines well with textiles, takes crisp imprints, remains maleable and can be coloured, stitched and worked into. It is also accepts embedded objects well. The variety of pastes available (pearl, matte, gloss […]
For this sample I selected a range of wool and other fibres to create a felted piece. Some of the fibres were chosen as being specifically feltable (wool) and others not (synthetic). The purpose being to see how the different fibres affected the outcome of the piece. I anticipated that there would be additional texturing […]
After the abject failure of the homemade ‘plaster of Paris’ I purchased the real thing. I experimented with a number of spaces, choosing everyday vessels for casting from and marking or embedding them with other found objects. Bakery tray and pasta with Brusho After arranging dry pasta pieces in a bakery tray I sprinkled the […]
For this exercise I selected a range of multi-coloured hand-dyed pieces of wool roving, fleece wool and yarn. All were chosen for their propensity to felt (ie, short to medium staple wools of various qualities). I used two different strategies to contain the wool. The first was to stuff an old mesh onion bag, the […]
While I was waiting for a delivery of plaster of Paris, I researched homemade alternatives. A number of sources recommended a simple mixture of flour and water for a similar result. I mixed up a paste, adding some Brusho for colour. To create interesting shape and texture I poured the paste into an ice cube […]
Metal parts and jewellery are frequently cast using ‘green sand’. Following some research I found various sources that suggested this could be achieved with kinetic sand. Kinetic sand is regular fine sand blended with a synthetic product, polydimethylsiloxane. This makes it behave like wet sand that can be moulded and shaped more readily than regular […]
Relief paste was also something I experimented with in Assignment Two where I used it with a stamp and bubble wrap to create very successful impressions. I mixed relief paste with Brusho for colour, keeping the colours marbleised by not over-blending. I spread the paste thickly over a heavily textured glass vase. The remaining paste […]
I had enjoyed using moulding paste in Assignment Two and I thought it would be interesting to work with to created moulded surfaces. I tried 3 samples: On synthetic fabric, with lace and using a stamp onto bondaweb. The paste was coloured with Brusho. None of the samples was particularly interesting. The paste wasn’t firm […]
After the PVA and fabric sample I had some colour PVA left over. It seemed a shame to waste it so I used some of the scraps of hand-dyed yarn from the weavette pieces and pushed them into the beaker until the yarn was covered. I allowed the piece to dry completely in the beaker […]
