East London

Recently, I went to London for a couple of days, on the second day I spent all day in East London, mainly shoreditch, as I wanted to explore the area and hunt for the street art that is often associated with the area. I was not disappointed, there was street art on almost every wall, some just quick tags or statements, but others were large pieces that had been carefully considered and must have taken hours, if not days. I also loved brick lane which again was lined with street art and a hoard of vintage shops, some of which felt as if you were back in the 60s. I also found a brilliant gallery that was underneath the lomography shop in spitalfields. It was only a small room but on display was a few of Rob Lowe's pieces who is a fantastic illustrator, and I was glad to see some of his work in person. I also spotted the beach ball installation by Morag Myerscough which was a pleasant surprise as I am a big fan of hers but I never knew whereabouts the installation was so I hadn't specifically gone looking for it.

These are just a few of the photographs I took on a disposable camera because I like the grainy quality that adds warmth and more atmosphere to the photographs. 

The Exhibition

So last thursday was the day of the art and design exhibition at college, which in a sense marked the end of the two years that I had spent there. It was good to see the whole of our exhibition, and see how everyone's work was so different and how much we had achieved in just two years. Our individual sections were focused on showcasing our best work that we had done in the two years. One of my focuses was my final major project as this is one of the best pieces I have done throughout the two years and I added the alcohol bottles, cigarette packets and prescription tablet boxes to link with my final major project work which may have helped the pieces because more understandable along with the writing was on part of the exhibition panel. I wanted to add the writing to bring an element of my chair that was exhibited in the other space into this area so that my work was linked between both places.

This is my installation piece that was situated in a different exhibition, where we all exhibited one piece, with five pieces using the blackened space, so were allocated a time of being displayed for 20 minutes each. My chair was suspended with fishing wire going to the ceiling so that this position could be held. It was important that it was displayed by only being on one leg to be able to question the fact of whether it is really a chair and so it didn't look like how you would normally see a chair. I liked that people were looking closely at what was written and trying to read parts of it because I wanted people to be involved with the piece.

What Is...?

Recently, I have been questioning everything, so I decided to do a series of paintings based on this. I have been questioning what is real and what is not, and is anything really what we think it is. I think these three pieces are just the start of my exploration into this and shall definitely develop this further. I painted onto pieces of cardboard that just happened to be what various records came packaged in from what I ordered from the internet, but that is irrelevant. Or is it? Maybe it isn't because the cardboard packaged records, so even though the actual artwork has little connection to music the material that I painted onto is somewhat linked to music, so therefore the pieces are indirectly linked to music. So, basically these pieces represent mostly what I think about, music and art, and these two things somehow nearly always link together if I have anything to do with it. I was also listening to Telegram's soundcloud repeatedly the whole time that I was painting therefore untentionally linking this piece to music even more. (Telegram are a great band, by the way, and I definitely recommend checking them out https://soundcloud.com/teletelegramgram).

Charlie Boyer and The Voyeurs

I created this a few days ago based on a handdrawn design that I did. I wanted it to look quite psychedelic even though this doesn't really reflect the sound of the band, but does reflect the sound of some of the music they are influenced by.