Using my summer project as a platform, I have begun final
year with excitement and a conceptually driven project, my ideas stem from a
personal experience last year, where I spent the year living with cockroaches
and the anxiety that was provoked in house-mates and me within our home. I am
researching and developing ideas surrounding concepts of space and place and
revealing and concealing.
I have started by sampling
from my own photographs of the Victoria Baths, Manchester. I chose this environment,
as it is run down and historic. I am also planning to visit the Stockport Air
Raid shelters. Specifically my
photographs are of the old living quarters above the baths, that were now
almost beyond repair. Focusing on texture and colour the peeling wallpaper,
cracked windows and bricks were ideal to photograph. I have begun to create smaller samples
focused on a limited colour pallet; I sampled around 25 of these boards. After
evaluating them as a whole they were of a small scale, the shapes within the samples
were inspired by the photographs I took, the scale needed to enlarge so they
would begin to represent and mirror the space of my original photos. The
materials I initially will collect need to have a domestic feel from, flooring
to roofing; they also need to be raw, rustic, recyclable and cheap. Many artists from painters installation
artists and multimedia artists past and present, like Robert Rauschenberg and
Gregor Schneider, inspire me, although very different they provoke emotion through
installation experience and this is something I would like to achieve.
Gregor Schneider’s work: Death House, He created a house in which all the windows door and exits were locked, visitors to the installation felt trapped and contained, the house holds history like the Victoria Baths.
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