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20 Sep

My first mentoring session with Frank Abbott

Last week, I had my first mentoring session with Frank Abbott, an artist who, like myself, plays with technology within his work. Frank and I discussed how I could enhance my paintings, by adding what we referred to as a ‘real’ material, something that could only be fully experienced in the ‘flesh’.  I have decided that I will experiment with materials that change appearance as the viewer moves around them, for example iridescent paints or reflective tape.  We also discussed the possibility of being more loose and disruptive in my paintings. I plan to do this by including more ‘playful’ imagery.

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A month into my residency

13th September 2018

So far I have completed one of the three paintings, I will be making for the IRL exhibition. This first painting, like all my work, was initially made on Adobe illustrator, from which I then transferred onto canvas using acrylic. This work provides us with a tangible window into the surreal digital landscape. Through the use of multiple vibrantly painted surreal flowers, the painting represents copy and paste, as well as repetitive ‘eye candy’ you may find on digital screens. All of the flowers share the same simplified visual DNA, to replicate the quick and passive qualities of digital imagery. After reviewing the finished painting, I now hope to alter it by making it more ‘Real’ and ‘Tangible’, through the addition of materials that would only display their desired effect in the ‘flesh’. I also hope to make more of the digital design language visible through the addition of more imagery.

 

When I haven’t been in Artcore, I have been working on the largest of three paintings, in my studio in Swindon. This work depicts the vastness of the digital world and I am using household gloss to make it. In my next painting I am planning on showing a more playful side to the digital world.

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A month into my residency

12th September 2018
It’s hard to believe almost a month has passed since the beginning of the residency- time does fly by! I began the first week building some objects with wire and paper, and then I decided to concentrate more on the wearable sculptures that I would be making. For the wearable sculptures I wanted to work with modular pieces, so I began doing several small sculptures to then assemble them together and make a larger piece. This process of making the clay shapes, waiting for them to dry and then assembling them togethers has been what’s taken most of the time that has passed so far. I have also done a couple of tests with the 360 camera and then playing the video into the Virtual reality headset to see how it works- it’s actually really cool!   As to when I’m not in Derby, I am also working from Leeds. At home I am working focused on materials other than ceramic as I wanted to mix different materials into the project, and unfortunately trying to make everything out of ceramics would be too heavy/unpractical. So far I have two “characters” and their accessories almost ready and two that are halfway there. The hardest thing so far though, was thinking that I wouldn’t be able to work with other people, as this was an essential part of the project. However, Artcore helped me find a couple of really good volunteers- one of which made me feel more at ease by telling me her
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Meet the artist: Maria Cepeda

31st August 2018

Maria Cepeda is Fine Arts tudent from Leeds Arts University.

She works with sculptures to investigate the existing relationship between self-other-environment.

Work across  different materials, approaching sculpting in a performative and innovative way her research is currently focused on how this relationship is studied by new materialism, stressing the impact of technology on the way we perceive our own material bodies.

She is one of the two artists selected for In Real Life residency, second of 4 artist residencies organized and curated by Artcore between 2018/2019.

We visited her in the artist studio, where we had a conversation about how she looks at her sculptures as both organic and technological elements use to reflect on future condition of human body.

Have a read of what she says!

Maria Cepeda, Wear, Ceramic, 2018

Where are you based? I’m originally from Colombia but I’m based in Leeds How you would like to use this residency to develop your current research and how do you think the time spent at Artcore can benefit your process of doing? My current research deals with the idea of a saturated self that receives so much stimuli and information from its surroundings that it becomes an abstract entity that takes on multiple identities. I’d like to use the In Real Life residency to develop this by relating it directly to the cybernetic world we are all a part of- more specifically linking this idea to video games where players take on a
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Meet the artist: Tom Van der Meulen

30th August 2018

Tom Van der Meulen is a recent Fine Arts graduate from the University of Reading. He creates his own digitally influenced paintings that explore the relationships between painting and the digital world. Van der Meulen’ work can be described as ‘A-temporal’; painting that has entered an unrestricted arena where all forms and periods of art can coexist at once taking influence from a range of sources.

He is one of the two artists selected for In Real Life residency, second of 4 artist residencies organized and curated by Artcore between 2018/2019.

We visited him in the artist studio, where we discovered some interesting aspects of his research concerning the representation of digital spaces and imagery through the medium of contemporary painting.

Have a read of what he says!

Tom Van der Meulen, Elide, 2018, Household Gloss on canvas

Where are you based? In Swindon, Wiltshire. How would you like to use this residency to develop your current research and how do you think the time spent at Artcore can benefit your process of doing? I am using this residency to give my undivided attention to my own practice for two months. This residency gives me a specific goal to work towards. It also gives me a great opportunity to showcase my work and develop as an artist. In the proposal you mentioned you would like to break down the subjective wall surrounding
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Responses

20th June 2018
After going for a meeting with someone from Derby City Mission, I was able to get more knowledge on homelessness in Derby. This information included other homeless charities as well as numbers surrounding homelessness which helped open my eyes to the problem. These numbers are from a night shelter that took place over 4 months in the winter. Over those months there were 319 guests, a number that surprised me as I previously found out –from the same interview- that there are only 40 registered homeless people in derby. This is something I felt important to share as it shows how bad the homeless crisis really is in Derby. Another thing I have been curious about, is how people in our community view the materials I use in my work. I wanted to ask people who are both from an artistic background as well as people who aren’t, to get a larger range of thoughts and opinions. I asked this question on several of my social medias, on my art Instagram as well as my personal and on Facebook. Using these different platforms gives me the chance to communicate with people from different backgrounds. Here is the question I asked and some of the responses. For me it kind of gives me security to look at because most buildings houses are made from bricks and they give you a roof over your head, somewhere to be safe and dry and warm and can protect
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Experiment of disappearance of the British Pub

14th June 2018

For the Artcore residency, I am working on a project surrounding the pub culture and the issue of the disappearing of the public houses in the UK.

I am concerned with the disappearance of the British Pub, as it functions as a social forum where different generations meet and socialise. By losing Pubs within the cities, we lose focal points for our communities and places of a unique tradition and character.

With this project, I want to create an awareness about the problems and changes that affect our coexistence within urban space in order to initiate a discussion about the future of our cities and the cohesion of society within it.

For the realisation of the project I have chosen to work with the object of the metal beer keg. I am intrested in the keg as it is moved around the city between the pubs creating   connecting points between them, creating an invisible infrastructure within the city.

During the residency, I will be creating a series of moulds from a used metal keg and cast terracotta sculptures from them.

  • Wooden structure made to start the first plaster mould around the keg
  • Work in progress of making plaster moulds around the beer keg
  • After one week of continuous work, finally the 9 part mould is finished
  • Mould from above
  • All the moulds need to be bone dry before they can be used for casting. They need to rest for several days in the airdrying cabinet now
  • Original very old brass taps, which I am going to make moulds of to use for the final installation
  • The mouldmaking of the brass taps has begun
  • This connecting mould came out beautifully
  • Very small mould parts from one of the brass moulds
  • Another connecitng mould, ready for the installation
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Re-Imagine the city residency Artist selected announcement

6th June 2018

Re-Imagine the city residency

Artist selected announcement

Artcore is delighted to announce Katharina Fitz and Jess Price as the two artists selected for Re-imagine the City, a two months residency focusing on learning from the city and use of public space. The project aims to explore the issues that shape the city. The artists selected will work with local communities to map, re-imagine and influence the places where we live and work. Katharina Fitz is a Nottigham based artist whose work focuses mainly on conceptual photography as well as sculpture. Since 2016 she has introduced different mediums such as casting, mould making, woodwork and ceramics into her practice. She is concerned with subjects surrounding urban sociology showing the structures, processes, phenomenon, and problems that are part of urban life and human interactions with a special interest in shared memory and social and cultural aspects of life. she classifies objects into groups in order to appreciate their characteristics and reflect upon their narratives. Therefore repetition and the interconnections between object and subject play an important role in her practice. Her work is characterized by an objective and conceptual line following clear structures. To find out more about Katharina Fitz, please visit: www.katharinafitz.com Jess Price is a Derby based artist whose practice gravitates towards addressing political themes more and more. She is especially interested in how politics is portrayed in art. When looking at political artists she has found their views have been shown either aggressively obvious
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