Artist statement BRANDED

BRANDED



My piece is based around an article I read on a woman's husband who was mistreated in hospital after suffering severe brain damage following a fatal accident. In his critical condition he was taken full advantage of and  left in horrible conditions such as soiled bedding, unwashed , unfed. Several times his wife had visited he was alone facing the wall.
The piece got me thinking on how a person with brain damage can be mistreated in hospital as they sometimes cannot communicate with the hospital staff.  This man was a prisoner in his own body and his health and well being deteriorated in this hospital which ironically was a rehabilitation unit to help him get better. Furthermore It led me to the aspect of mental health and how they are a vulnerable target for staff to abuse their position.
My painting depicts a man who is branded as mentally ill I used a bold red colour to establish the fact of a stamp as 'branding' as I feel they can be labelled as this and put into this category. It shows his hand reaching out for help but at the same time is giving away his dignity and pride to the receiving hand. He is giving himself over for hep but handing over himself and pride also.  His hand is covering his mouth showing that he is unable to speak his mind.  He has no say on what is going on. The rehabilitation unit in the background is a dark and dull place , I used water colour  splattered in black to represent this gloom. It that does not always a gaurentee help and sometimes you can enter this place and be worse than before.

THE SCIENTIFIC ARTIST

GAIL WIGHT
This was one of the artists from our presentations
I found her very interesting as she was like a scientific artist.
She dealt with subjects like chemistry and biology.
One of her works which interested me the most was solar burn
There was a experiment carried out in 1948 where P.N Witt gave substances to spiders.  These substances included Bezedrine , caffeine, chloral hydrate, lsd, marijuana ,mescaline.

she made drawings of the spiders webs after being administrated with these drugs.
It was interested to see how each drug had a different effect on the spiders.

the lsd apears tobe the one with the most detail .  below.



the marijuana web was scattered an allover the place. likewise with the caffiene none below.

ARTIST MINDMAPS & OTHER PEOPLES PRESENTATIONS

For our assignment we were given an artist and asked to research them without any internet at allll.
This was so hard to do  because the first thing you wanna do is google them! I took out three books in the library on my artist who was.. Gerhard Richter
I didnt know anything about  him only that he was this really rich artist who sold a painting for 25 million or something crazy like that .
So after reading about him I came up with a lot of information.
A lot of his work is abstract which kinda disappointed me as i don't really like that kinda art.
What did interest me about him however was his interest in photography and the photograph.
He loved to use a photograph for his subject rather than a real life subject this was strange because most artists are the oppoisite.
He did a seris of water colours which were again  abstract they were also untitled so it was hard to identify with them.
One of his works i really liked was this....

I loved the effect of the paint and how it just looks like its supposed to be there?
Looks so effortless yet effective.
I tried this out myself for my mindmap I got some old photos and splashed paint on them i found watercolour to work best for this and i think that is what he also used.



OTHER PEOPLES PRESENTATIONS

I really enjoyed watching other peoples presentations it was very intresting to see others take on it.
Some artists stuck in my in my mind rather than others .
One that i liked was Luccii Reii I think thats what her name was,She was a cermaic artist and i liked her work as i like pottery and vases and stuff like that.

Another artist that stuck in my mind was an artist who carried out an experiment on spiders with lsd and found that there webs were not made correctly after this and they died I am definately going to look into these artists and make a blog post on there work :)

MINDMAP

I put a lot more effort in to my mindmap this year
i took on bord everything john had said in class about the size the colour etc.
I Enjoyed doing this and didnt see it so much as a task like last year .





I put myself in the middle and had four parts to the mindmap.
the first part was a picture of a baby holding a paintbrush this represents me and my love for art at a young age this bit looks a bit bare though so i am going to add maybe a baby picture in there also.

the next 'milestone' to my mindmap is when i left school i didnt know what i wanted to do so i went and did things in college like tourism and social studies.
I left shortly after a month into tourism as i realized  this is not what i want to do i want to do art,
because i was working full time i didnt have the chance to do a portfolio course so i decid3ed i would put togethr one myself,
after many sleepless nights i managed to do one and get into college which is the big YAYYY and smiley face.
the next part was about failing college last year and how i didnt put in enough effort i drew  a sad person for this because i was ofcourse very sad at this point but i decidecd to go ahead and give it another shot.

the last bit is about my future my short term goal is to pass this module and next module and my long term goals is to get my degree .




 I added some pennys receipts to my mindmap because thats where i work and i used to always get in trouble for doodling on them at the till when i should be working :/

THINGS I WOULD DO DIFFERENTLY:

More pictures
more detail
attention to detail

first day in learning to learn

i just made this blog and couldnt remember my password so had to copy and paste this of the other blog goddddd


i had my first class of learning to learn on monday.
Its sad being back in first year again not knowing anyone and all my friends are gone on to second year :(.
i guess you have to learn the hard way and im determined this time to try my best and pass this module !

today in class we did mindmaps and everyone had to get up and speak infront of the class everyones was reallly good. I took some notes on what i should include in mine I think colour is a big thing as peoples that included more colour grabbed my attention more.
I also enjoyed listening to peoples stories why they were here and what they wanted to achieve.
I can see alot were i went wrong last year especially on my mindmap so i am looking forward to doing a new one this week.
I have to present it on monday i am not looking forward to that though !!!...