Body explorations

Previously, i had been working with the idea of mutations and the drive to be the best through evolution. Now my concepts have developed and i am now more interested in looking at the present obsessions with the body and creating your perfect ideal.These drawings and painting are my first explorations of the nude body and with mixing literature with my artwork.

As i was struggling a little to develop my idea, i decided to try doing a quick painting of a larger women in a different setting to that we usually see them in and being idolised. I haven't finished painting in the figure and im not sure i will, it has not given me the desired effect i was aiming for.

Almost complete!

This is the the almost complete look of mine and Jakes exhibition space. At the end of Friday we had all the work up on the walls but unfortunatley we have not yet got the floor installation finished s we ran out of floor paint and cannot finish the floor till Tuesday 26th (hopefully). Once that has dried we will go on in on an extra day and complete setting up the floor installation. We decided with Anna that painting the plynths the same colour as the floor instead of white would give the installation an interesting effect of it coming out of the floor as you can just see start to happen from this photo. if it still looks good when we finish painting the floor and plynths, then we shall carry through with this idea.

Installation

Friday we did the finishing touches too the walls and then we began installing our work. Me and Jake all ready had a good idea of how we wanted our work too look and be installed and when we ran it past Anna and Charles, we was given the go ahead except that the shelf and the placement of my crate should be considered more carefully and perhaps we should consider having them all in the centre of our space as a floor installation with Jake's books and box n plynths. This was so that we could have the full use of the space being used and it may give it a better viewing quality too the works and bind our collaborative projects together more in a sort of narrativ/display. These are the photos takenfrom the day and the installation of the work.

Letters for private View

Tuesday Afternoon spent in the canteen at college preparing the envelopes and letters for the invites to go in to be sent out to our mailing lists this week. Me. Janice, Toni and Sam folded the letters and enveloped them.