OUIL603 - Statement of Intent

OUIL603 - Summative Evaluation

My main goals thorough out this year were to continue my work with print with the aim to develop my skill as well as push this further into different contexts. I feel I have experimented with my print work on a massive scale this year. I worked on many brief's with the aim to develop my skills in specific ways. I took what were just Lino cuts and developed imagery printing onto textiles and transferring Lino cut shapes into laser cut on a bigger scale than I've made anything else before.

Another of my objectives was to gain experience working with new medias. I was specific about animation and jumped on the lifting tower brief to collaborate with animators. Although I don't yet know how to animate, I do have an understanding of what needs to be done in preparation. Hopefully I will take this knowledge on to learn more after uni.

I planned to work on local briefs to strengthen my network, here in leeds. Most briefs I worked on over this module were for or with local, bands, companies and collaborating artist. My biggest local client was Lumen, I hope to  keep in contact with them in the future.

Whilst I feel I've achieved a lot in terms of my physical work and my outcomes I've let my self down again on organisation and the academic side of the module. I could have put more time into development and research over the whole module, instead I jumped to a lot of conclusions, making work I'm really happy with, I just think it could have been so much more i'd been organized on my blog and in my sketchbooks.

Overall im really happy with the work that I've produced through out the course, I now feel confidant as a practitioner and ready to continue working freelance upon my leave. My work has a consistency that I've built up over the last three years to be something I'd like to think I can tackle any brief with.

OUIL603 - Project Report

OUIL603 - FMP

The finished sample monkeys were Velcroed to the wall in the studio and photographed ready to be sent as part of a proposal. I'm really happy with the design of finish of the monkeys and think they are a clear and exciting example of what the exhibition could be if it became more than a proposal.

I sent these images along with a letter explaining my proposal, ideas and research that the Museum and Left Bank could get involved with. 

OUIL603 - FMP

For my proposal I have decided to produce a sample of what the finished mural would look like should the exhibition be endorsed by the museum and west bank, perhaps with funding. I vectored my characters once more and and took my two different monkey designs to the laser cutter. 

The cutter produces a very clean cut with the use of 6mm mdf sheets. The shapes came out clean and crisp. These were then sanded and undercoated with a spray primer. I've also experimented with how I plan to hang the work - I discovered industrial strength velcro that (tested in my bedroom) will hold a monkey with ease. This is how I will hang and arrange the work. 

I thought at first to paint the monkeys in very bright colours and I did like the green, however this didn't really match with what I'd planned digitally and I felt the black and white was a good reference to Victorian times when the zoo actually existed.

OUIL603 - FMP

Collaging and drawing digitally further I composed this proposal for the main mural at the heart of the exhibition. This includes a bear that I know would have been about, due to the existence of the bear pit. the turret pictured right is reference to this.

Having developed the imagery a lot further I now feel more confident in my plans for a proposal. I plan to contact both leeds city museum and West Bank leeds for their exhibition space. West bank is an ideal location and I hope that they'd be interested in my project considering that their building is in the area where the zoo once existed according to google earth.

The work im proposing is a collaborative project between me and the museum. My laser cut mural and exhibition of prints will be displayed alongside written and factual information curated by the museum, with the aim to educate the current inhabitants of hyde park.

OUIL603 - FMP

Moving on from monkeys I developed the young Siberian tiger using collaged shapes and markings. I painstakingly drew the head in Photoshop. Drawing this more complicated variant I thought that the exhibition could be a large mural display as well as an exhibition of screen prints.