Bethany Armstrong

Experimentation

beth — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 18:03:30 +0000

Mixed media. After christmas i will be getting into alot more pieces using mied media and back my usual style! yey!

Sofa

beth — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 17:59:58 +0000

Transformations

beth — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 20:58:54 +0000

Third group project has been set! This time we have been asked to find a journey between a door and a subwoofer and document it by producing a piece of artwork…sound hard? It is. Its driving me crazy trying to think of ideas! Let alone how we would execute them (I’m a technophobe!) So far we have had a few ideas mainly revolving around using the door into another realm, perhaps where the subwoofers live. (Let me explain…[as none of us knew what a subwofer was we decided that it could be anything, hense we have created our own little race]).

The chair

beth — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 17:47:27 +0000

Wow, so we have been out today filming for our project. Luckily the weather stayed nice and dry. It was quite amazing how many people were coming to look at the chair without any haste or reservations. I couldnt help thinking that if we had chosen a comfier looking chair that more people would have wanted to

But is it art?

beth — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 17:35:02 +0000

New book! Came highly recommended from a few sources! So I’ve bought it to assist with my contemporary art in context essay.

Deconstructing the grand master – update

beth — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 17:29:02 +0000

Wow, can’t believe how quick time seems to be going! Our idea is to take a chair into the town centre and ask people to sit upon it for us to take a photograph, as well as this we will be filming peoples reaction to the chair as it sits on its own in the middle of the street (seemingly). (Personally I would like to ask the people that sit on our chair what their occupation is and embroider this onto coloured ribbons tied onto the chair – just so we have an insight into the person.) So our final will be a mixed installation piece, complete with film, photography and installation.

Module 2 – Deconstructing the Grand Master

beth — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 20:13:03 +0000

OK, so the second project of the term has now been set! ‘Deconstructing the Grand Master’ We have chosen Renoir’s Le Moulin de la Galette, and are currently still brinstorming ideas of how to reproduce it within a contemporary era. So far it’s been really interesting. We have managed to narrow our ideas and are starting to refine them so…watch this space!…

The Body in Contemporary Art

beth — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 19:32:15 +0000

After some consideration, saving and an extra bookshelf, I’ve decided to expand my book collection. So this week I’ve been on Amazon finding a new book. Having flicked through a few I settled for ‘The Body in Contemporary Art’, Sally O’Reilly, it was the pretty simple, eye-catching cover that influenced my decision. I’ve always been fascinated with the use of the human body in contemporary art, in particular, Jenny Saville and this book really brings it into the modern day, using many different medium, comparing her work to that of Dorota Sadovska.