Andy Goldsworthy

Drawn Stone By Andy Goldsworthy.


Some of the work created from Andy Goldsworthy

Andy Goldsworthy is an environmental sculptor in which his use of the natural surroundings create an art form. He explores and experiments with various natural materiel such as leaves, grasses, stones, wood, sand, clay, ice, and snow. The seasons and weather determine the materials and the subject matter of his projects. With no preconceived ideas about what he will create, Goldsworthy relies on what nature will give him. Goldsworthy "feels" the energy from nature and transcends that energy into an art form. His transient sculptures contradict the permanence of art in its historical pretense.

Andy Goldsworthy was born in 1956 in Chesire. He studied at Bradford Art College and Preston Polytechnic. Thereafter, he toured the world and experimented with the world's alternating climate and different geographical materials available. In 1986, he moved to Dumfriesshire, Scotland where he maintains his residency.
Goldsworthy's artwork reinforces the relationship of human existence within nature. His work shows that we as humans have some ability of controlling nature, but eventually, in the end, nature controls us.

Goldsworthy produced a commissioned work for the entry courtyard of San Francisco's De Young Museum called "Drawn Stone", which echoes San Francisco's frequent earthquakes and their effects. His installation included a giant crack in the pavement that broke off into smaller cracks, and broken limestone, which could be used for benches. The smaller cracks were made with a hammer adding unpredictability to the work as he created it.

This work that is made by Andy is truly remarkable it shows the nature and what humans can do to make a tree or rock look a bit more interesting. The favourite piece for me was Drawn Stone it represented an earthquake and it

was really well done, it showcased how powerful an earthquake really is, it can go through rocks, buildings and can destroy whole cities and this sculpture is a great representation of the frequent earthquakes that have shook

San Francisco.

Mothers Art

Founded in 1983, Mothers Art is a unique design and construction facility servicing the diverse requirements of zoos, tourism attractions, public art and the architectural industry. Acknowledged widely as industry leaders, Mothers Art unites a team of experienced designers, trade specialists, artists and artisans in a design studio/workshop space of 2500m2.

The artists and designers have a wealth of experience in generating ideas for exciting, achievable solutions, with a thorough understanding of materials, technical processes and solutions beyond the expertise of most design practices. This synergy of experience, skill and imagination enables Mothers Art to plan, design, project manage, fabricate and install the work, in a collaborative and streamlined process from conception through to completion.

Commitment to excellence has earned Mothers Art a worldwide reputation for innovation, combining an artistic sensibility with precise design execution. Mothers Art has realised highly successful projects in many significant tourism and museum attractions.

At Mothers Art Productions they are committed to continually improving our sustainable design and production practices. They actively seek to specify eco-friendly materials and processes and encourage all staff to strive for sustainable solutions. Design by Mothers Art provides innovative concepts and winning strategies for clients who require lateral solutions and a competitive edge delivered on time and maximising hard won budgets.

Alot of the work that Mothers Art gets in travels over all areas of design, Graphics, industrial etc.In 4 weeks time mother is moving to South Melbourne which is a bigger factory which is better for them so they can have more jobs on the go at the same time. The factory is set up into seperate areas there is a traditional area and a modern more contemporary area which makes it easier to work and things wont get lost.

At the moment they are working on an educational tralier which will be used to take around to schools, it was built from the ground up it includes a LCD T.V and solar powering it will have graphic panels to make it more appealing, at the moment it's just painted, it's not quite finished yet. When it is completed it will be like a mini museum, the project cost around $100.000 to build.

Overall Mothers Art was an interesting place to go to it wasnt like a design studio where you just design all day, It was a place where someone can do everything, it was a place where it was more hands on work which is much more fun thats what i think anyway.

Mcclelland Gallery Wild Man Sculpture

Wild man 2005, polyester resin, silicon, horse hair, polyester monofilamant. Purchased by the Elisabeth Murdoch sculpture foundation 2008.

Ron Mueck was born in Australia in 1958 but know lives in the United Kingdom. Ron Muecks hyper-real sculptures of humans both clothed and unclothed, replicate in micro detail every aspect of the body-pores, veins, hairs, blemishes, wrinkles-with a variety that decieves the eye and challenges our perceptions of reality. To achieve this Mueck also plays with scale his sculptures despite their apparent truthfulness to life are never life size rather their gigantic or miniture dimensions serve to emphasize the discontinuties between portrayal and reality and to develop

an ambigous relationship between expectation, visual perception and cognitive knowledge.

When walking into the gallery you could tell the curator spent alot of time organising the exhibition it was very well layed out. The way it heas been curated is through time every space was a different era.Ther was alot of art pieces in the gallery, on the wall and floor which made it appealing and interesting, it made the exhibition exciting to walk around and look at every piece.

The wild man was set at the back of the exhibition as if it was hidden, once you walked around the corner there was this enormous sculpture and that was the "wild man", it was unbeliable how big this sculpture really was, it looked so real, it was so detailed every piece of hair, wrinkle and spot it was so life - like. Out in the garden at the Mccleland gallery it was so beautiful all the sculptures were spread apart and it was set around a lake which made it nice just to stroll around the lake and look at all the sculptures that are on display

i really enjoyed it there and would like to go again. I have driven past the park so many times and have always wanted to go in but never had the chance know i will go there more often i enjoyed it.

The Dwelling

International artists explore the ghostly inhabitations of the ‘home’ in a new group show at ACCA, presented as part of the Melbourne International Arts Festival.Curated by ACCA’s Artistic Director Juliana Engberg and organised by Hannah Mathews,The Dwelling brings together a series of spooky works from leading contemporary artists, each exploring the surreal, the haunted and the very strange.Artists included are Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Chantal Akerman, Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, David Haines & Joyce Hinterding, Michaela Melián, Callum Morton, David Noonan & Simon Tevaks, Sofia Hultén and Calum Stirling.

A brief history of ACCA: The ACCA is free, it only shows contempory art, every exhibition is only up for 2 months, ACCA dosnt exhibit paintings and sculptures, but does exhibit singers, dancers and even had an avery of live finches, always contemporary.

The Dwelling was an exhibition of 12 artists. The piece that stood out the most for me was the, The great Artesian Basin, 2003. It was created by 2 Australian artists, David Haines and Joyce Hinterding. The house seems to be posessed/haunted it has water gushing out of it, it is like an image you would see on a movie for example Jumanji. The house looks dead, It is like an image from the acopolyspe, there is no life, people have been washed away.

It was a weird exhibition it wasnt what i was expecting it was dark and spooky something that dosnt excite me very much but once the speaker explained the pieces to us it started to get a bit mose interesting.

Robbie Rowlands The Offering

Robbie Rowlands is the sculpture artist who discovered and transformed this old church in Dandenong into a exhibition before it gets dimolished. The church was an active building up into January this year and is 105 years old.

The main concept of Robbies work is cutting through layers and exposing layers. When Robbie first went to look at the church to see the canvas that he was going to work on, there was no floors, the first thing he thought is were he was going to put his work beacause his work is normally on the floor.

The cross that was cut out from the cupboards was transformed into a curved over cross as if it was dead, that is what i got from that scupture. Cutting the cross out from the cupboard was a big deal for Robbie, thought of his mum straight away, what would she think? Robbies family has a strong Christian background.

Apart from the church getting demolished Robbie has put alot of time making his sculptures and showing it to the public. It is really well done what he has accomplished even though many think its not art, including me, when i first walked in the church i thought what is this a building with no floor and bits cut out from the wall THIS ISNT ART, but then Robbie spoke to us and talked about his feelings towards the work and what his reasoning was behind it and then i thought IT IS ART, all art dosnt have to be painting or a outdoor sculpture and can be contemporary and out there just like Robbies work.

It was an interesting exhibition and different i have never experienced any work like this before and it was good to see and appreciate different types of artwork that can be produced.

History of Graphic Design final video review

This video is about how design has been changed and altered over the past 15,000 years and how it relates to what we are designing now.

This video showed different designs starting from: 15,000 B.C, cave drawings at Lascaux, 31,000 B.C, Sumerian pictographs, 1300 B.C, Egyptian Hieroglyphics, 500 A.D, Illuminated manuscripts, the book of kells, 1400 A.D, Illuminated manuscripts, the book of hours, the limbourg brothers, 1470 A.D, Movable type, Nicolas Jensen, 1529 A.D, Movable type, Geofory Tory, 1700 A.D, Movable type Giambasta Bodoni, 1800 A.D, Movable type, Vincent Figgins, and 1900 A.D Art Nouveau.

It was very interesting to see how the times have changed and that this is the orignal design method that was used all those years ago. I enjoyed the video it was a real eye opener to see were the background of design has come from.

Typolution video review

Animated film typographical Environmental minimalist flavor, punctuated by the song "Nostrand" group Ratatat directed by Olivier Beaudoin.

This animated video is great it shows the factor of polution and what effects it has on our lives and it is all done with the use of characters it is very well done. The music also works very well with this animation with light and shade used without to give more empahis on certain parts of the animation.

At the end of the animation one of the flowers is dying, its petals are falling off the petals are made up of question marks and that is the last image that is shown in the animation which is very powerful and asks us the question why is this happening?

My response to this video is that it is a great animation, and this is what is happening to our plant, we have to be more concious of what we use and be more environmentally friendly or our planet will die, just like the flower at the end. The way this message was made was smart because the generation that it is aimed for is gen x and that will draw in their attention.

Kareem Rizk

Kareem graduated from Monash Uni in 2004, he studied Graphic Design. Karrem went out into the work force and got a job at the Herald Sun in 2006/2007. He worked at the Herald Sun for 8 - 9 months but wasnt happy with his job. He naturally progressed from Graphic Design into Fine Art.

2006 Kareem shifted into Fine Art, he liked the collage concept of Fine Art, he would scratch out faces and type to stay away from copyright infringement. The images that Kareem sources are from old publications he never uses any images from publications that are printed after 1980.

Kareem still works like a Graphic Designer he structures his work on a grid, and rather from working from the background to the foreground , Kareem gets an image and works the composition around that image. When Kareem sources images he sets them up in a different setting than they originally were so it dosnt infringe any copyright.

Kareem dosnt use newspaper clippings because they black and white and they dont last as long as magazine clippings. The size of Kareems works range from 10 X 10 inchs to 30 X 30 inchs.

Inflences
Some of Kareems influences include Richard Hamilton, Charles Wilkin, Mario Wagner, Edvadio Recife all these collage artists have helped Kareem in his works. Edvadio was the guy that influenced Kareem to pursue collage.

Kareem was very interesting he explained to us that it is important to follow your dream and love what you do because that will get you out in the industry. Kareem followed his passion and know collage is his full time job.