Kate wiles: Kate wiles is an artist and tutor at Nottingham College and has spoken to us about curatorship. Wiles studied art for a foundation degree after A levels, Graduated with a BA from Tree university in the late 90's and spent a year at the Royal academy being tutored and mentored by Tracy emmen. Wiles has worked with many artists such as Marc quit on 'Blood head' and Gilbert and George on 'The dirty words pictured',and has had a role with curating for these exhibitions. Using this experience Wiles was able to buy a building and turn it into a gallery space to exhibit her course mates work once she moved back to Nottingham, and is still in touch with artists such as 'Matt Jordan' to this day. During this time Wiles put on many shows and exhibitions such as 'Little wolf parade' which was an evening of performance art, and when wiles graduated in 2001 she was able to use all of her experience with curating to work for 'Castle fine Art...
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FMP: Project proposal We are now moving onto the final major project of the year which will last 16 weeks, and we will exhibit the final piece at the end of year show. While thinking about this project my initial thoughts are that I want this project to be photography based. I have worked with different photography processes in the past and I found the to be versatile and interesting and I enjoyed doing them, in particular Cyanotypes, and I hope to experiment with a multitude of photography processes and expand my skill set. I want to work with different materials such as fabrics like calico as opposed to only paper as I believe that this will allow me more freedom in how I install and present the final outcome, for instance, creating a stretched canvas to display a cyanotype or screen print. When thinking about the initial themes I want my FMP to be personal and represent the healing journey that I have had to go on in terms of my physical health, the recovery an...
Project evaluation: The castle project is our second project of the year, we are working with Nottingham castle to put on an exhibition using VR headsets and we needed to create a piece in response to either a work in the castle or an aspect of the castle itself. I really enjoyed working with the castle last year so I went into it with a positive expectation, and I believe that the use of virtual reality is new and interesting and it will add a fresh, innovative aspect to the exhibition. To start off this project I chose to respond to a painting called 'Still life with frog and goldfinch' by Matthias Withoos, and as a starting point in my response I went out and foraged natural materials such as stickers and leaves. I wanted to lean into the still life aspect of the painting as I was greatly drawn to and inspired by the depiction and various plants within the painting. I thought that this would be a good place to start as it's a very clear and direct link to the painting. ...
Ceramic transfer prints: When finally using my ceramic prints I began by trying to put apply them onto a dry ceramic surface with no glaze on and quickly found out that they would not stick and kept falling off. I was very confused as I thought that the transfers were supposed to go underneath a glaze and I was worried that this would delay my project even further. However, after some trial and error I found that the prints would stick to a glazed surface and when I asked the technician about this he confirmed that the type of prints that I had ordered worked best when applied to a glossy surface. When looking at the outcome of these prints I can say that I am very pleased with them, the details and lines have turned out really nicely and the image is clear and neat.
Frogs and photoshop: I decided to use waterslide ceramic transfer prints to create neat detailed images of frogs on my ceramic pieces and to do this I needed to send images off to a company for them to be made. to create the images of the frogs I traced the outline of a selection of frogs from a book and then drew the details free hand using the original images from the book as a reference. I then transferred the image onto white paper and drew over it in a black sharpie so that the image had clear, bold lines. I used photoshop to remove the background so that only the black lines were visible and copy and pasted multiple images onto an A4 sheet in various sizes. I chose to use images of the frogs because it's a direct link to the original artwork. I like the images of the frogs, they are neat and clean and the black lines are clear and I think that it's good that I have a variety of different images and sizes as there will be something different to look at on the ceramic pi...