Uni Yeahs......and Nos!

Hi.I want to give everyone a background on my journey through university by posting images of works from 1st year until graduation. 2006 is where it all starts and 2010 is where it all began again albeit in a different way, but a taster is some of the Yeahs and Nos of 2006.

 

The bucket and plastic cup works were part of theme I had going which was to talk about volume and in particular the volume of my body. Needless to say these and other works relating to that theme were not to well received by the faculty or myself. The above work started me on a new path of found banal objects that could be used to talk about something quite different but in many forms the same. Space. This work is fashioned from several hundred cotton buds in a triangular form creating joined pentagonal shapes. I must say here that the humble cotton bud saved me and my time at Uni! Phew!!! Art became, not just pleasurable but really, really interesting.

The square form lent itself well to the cotton bud and I was able to manipulate the form which was not possible with the surprisingly strong triangular shape.

The above image is from my first group show held at the University of Canterbury in 2006 and the work contains some 2400 cotton buds!
This is all i wish to share of my first year of Uni Yeahs....and Nos.
hope you enjoy

2007 to come.......