Over Protecting Children... Just Let Them Learn.

This TED video is great. These things are brilliant for learning. It not only allows children to experience things that could be dangerous, but it also allows them to trust their parents, and to respect them. And it's so much fun!

By sheltering children, and not allowing them to experience situations, they cannot learn how to deal with them.

Gever Tulley
http://www.tinkeringschool.com/

Bringing Books and Paper to Life

Here are some animations that bring books to life...

Film for NZ Book Council

Produced by Colenso BBDO

Animated by Andersen M Studio

Su Blackwell is an amazing artist. She has been involved with companies using her art within their advertising. This video is the advert for Beringer wine.

Louis Reith

Forest, 2011

from Book Pages Series, 2009-2011

from Book Pages Series, 2009-2011

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The Valleys, 2010

These are collages created by artist and graphic designer Louis Reith. I am most interested in the simplicity of these pieces.

"...Reith seeks tranquility in his drawings, collages and sculptures. By typographic forms on old book pages and the use of maps, Reith creates a world of mountain landscapes and abstract works."

http://www.iriscornelis.com/pages/en/artists/louis-reith/biography.php

UWE Degree Show - Art Design Media

Yes, it has been 3 years, and now I will be a part of the UWE Degree Show. This exhibition comprises of all the graduating years of the art and design courses at UWE. Including the amazing Drawing and Applied Arts 3rd year students.

Private view:

Friday 10th June 18:00 - 21:00
Open view :

Saturday 11th June: 10:00 -18:00

Sunday 12th June: 10:00 -16:00

Monday 13th - Thursday 16th June: 10:00-20:00

Bower Ashton Campus

Kennel Lodge Road

off Clanage Road
Bower Ashton
Bristol
BS3 2JT


For more information click here.

"A grownup is a child with layers on”

I have used my manipulated book pages to create layered work, in a similar way to the pieces I produced for my assessment in January (See related post here). Just like that work, these layered pieces are talking about children looking out through a cross over of the childhood and adult worlds.


The book pages used are from many old children's books, including classics such as A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh collections and Kenneth Grahamme's The Wind in the Willows.


The pages have been treated with different mediums such as varnish, shoe polish, gesso, watercolour, and marbling inks.

UPFEST - A Walk Up North Street

It is the weekend of the UPFEST here in Bristol, just up the road from me. It is a festival of urban paint. These are some works that stood out for me, all for their own reasons.


I personally am not as interested in more common graffiti. But when these artists can really show their skill, they create some amzing works. The last 3 images are particularly great. The use of the flourescent colours with the police in the last piece is really clever, and definitely catches your eye.

Standing Alone

 

Enhancing the idea of fragility in my work, the pages and cutouts are going to be free standing. The pages will be strengthened by a thin frame of balsa wood, which I bought from a model shop in Bristol.

The cutouts from the book pages should be small enough not to need the balsa wood. Many of the cutouts are of children, and allowing these the freedom to stand alone is quite scary. Parents become extremely worried about what could happen to their children if they allow them more freedom. For adults, it is working out how much freedom a child should have, while at the same time shielding them from things too "grown up" for them, allowing them to keep their childhood innocence for a bit longer.