VSW32 Fine Art Project Development VSW33 Fine Art Project Advanced A VSW34 Fine Art Project Advanced B The final three units of the BA in Fine Art unrolled as a single large project. We were required to develop our ideas into a coherent body of work and to present this in the context of an exhibition proposal. Click here to see the completed project. I was ready to finish my final project. I had made a start but I hadn't found a direction, so during the summer break I jettisoned most of my tutor’s advice and spent time just sitting on the rocks at my local beach. I pondered how the only certainty is that nothing is certain. The colours of the crumbly rocks were fascinatingly Australian, and the cracks in them were mysterious. The constant erosion and deposition of the sandstone and its susceptibility to cracking spoke strongly to me of uncertainty and impermanence. ... So first I experimented with various ways of representing the colours and textures of the rocks ... … I found that placing mirrors in cracks allowed me to keep my options open about what the cracks displayed ... … Theinterplay of natural rock, the artwork and reflections in the mirror became increasingly intriguing (click on the arrows to advance the slides) ... ... I wanted more crack shapes; I developed these through (1) photographing, (2) sketching, (3) painting on paper, (4) colouring sand painting on mirrors and then (5) photographing these along with other mirrors. ... Throughout the process I tried to keep in play:
... I still needed to connect works into a coherent exhibition that would give viewers a developing experience as they strolled though it. I wanted to show that we can never be quite sure of what we are seeing, so the first two rooms display actual works on mirrors, where viewers can see different reflections as they move past them. The third room contains digital photographs of the mirrors with different reflections in the cracks, some simple and some more complex..
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