Susan Stockwell is a British Artist born in Manchester, studied at the Sheffield Hallam University and The Royal College of Art and currently is a lectures in the School of Architecture and visual arts at University of East London. Suasan works in a number of ways from small studies to large scale sculptural installations, drawings and collage. The context behind her work is mainly with transformation and issues regarding ecology, geo-politics, mapping, trade and history. She uses everyday, domestic products that fulls our lives. She uses these material and transforms it into art. Curator Grace Chung describes the works gently revealing nature - 'Accumulation, transformation, detritus, debris, everyday materials are all recurrent themes in Stockwell's work. Meticulously hand crafted, the benign sublime beauty in the work belies the devastating effects of our culture and our role in shaping it. Look more closely, and one is confronted by a cultural urgency of global-proportions. Political and cultural colonisation, globalize waste and consumption are reconfigured by Stockwell's work into a new festering eco system of meaning that slowly seeps like the rising ocean level.' (From the text for the exhibition B-side Ecology, MIMI Space at the Hong's Foundation for Education and Culture, Taipei, Taiwan 2008) I love the way that Susan Stockwell use found materials and covers important topics world related topics in her work. The images of her work that I have are the ones that i am most inspired by not because of her materials or her techniques but I like that ways that she uses a map of the world / country. For my final piece I planing to use the out line of East London. The reason for this is because my work is about me. Since I was born I have always lived in East london/ Newham so using the outline will help me to communicate this.
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These are pictures that I have taken. Most of these are from my journeys around Central and East London, A few of these Photographs have been taken from my house (the started point of any journey that I take)
Seeing as I have always lived in East London (newham) I am enjoyed exploring the part of London that I have live in as there is always something new see. Taking photographs is an important part of that exploring for me as it way of documenting and locating (mapping) place that I have visited. The photographs below are from a few different area and have been taken on quite a few different days. My dad want to India (Gujrat state) and sent me pictures during his travels. These are a selection from the large number of pictures he send, they include; transport, our house in India ( where we lives when we visit- the house in which my grandparents and dad before they moved to the uk) houses of relatives living in different area, frames and roads.
I asked my dad take pictures for me as consider myself British Indian - born in the uk but have an Indian heritage)- and India part of my family history which in turn plays a role in my identity. Name: Samirah Shaikh Pathway: Textiles Project Title: Journeys and Mapping While studying the UAL Level 3 Extended Diploma in Art and Design I have been able to develop in a number of ways. In contextual studies I was able to expand my knowledge on art history and understanding of the world through semiotics while developing my essay writing and presentation skills and then taking what I had learnt further by applying context to my textiles work. In textiles I have not only been able to learn about both historical and contemporary designers and trends but, a range of techniques and textiles skills. Both contextual studies and textiles have developed my research skills and problem solving skills which has given me the confidence to exhibit my work to the public. For my final major project I am going to be exploring the theme ‘Journeys and Mapping”. The starting point for this project was my contextual essay based on the question “Where does Islamic fashion belong within Western mainstream culture?” In the essay I looked at a range of topics Isamophobia, Stereotypes, different roles of media/ social media, Muslim fashion designer and high-stores. I show how things have and continue to change, a bit like a journey. As well as the research I carried out about my family history during my Unit 10 project, I looked at belonging and identity and found myself inspired by my great- great-great granddad’s life story who traveled from India to Burma and my great granddad who traveled to South Africa, Burma and parts of Europe during his life. I am tracking the journeys I make using GPS; carrying out primary research, taking photographs and doing drawings of East London and will collect documentation from my fathers’ upcoming trip to India. In order to explore my theme I will be looking at artists Susan Hefun, Lottie Jackson-Eeles and Jeremy Wood, as well textiles artist Eszter Bornemaiza . I will develop my work thought a series of drawings and images and fabric samples using techniques such as screen printing, embroidery, heatpress and wave before making a final outcome. I’m aiming to create an outcome that encompass Fine Art and Textiles and functions as both art object and design object. In order to evaluate my work I will keep online blog for my research, A3 sketchbook with my work, and A5 journal which I will keep a regularly update which will I help me to review what I have done during the design process and help me to write an overall evaluation at the end of the project. Bibliography:Websites:
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Videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2b8m9D0mK0 Susan Hesse was born into a dual family - muslim/christian. Egyptian/German - and shares in her work as a multimedia teacher and artist in Stattgart (Germany). Her work explores the intersection of location and identity. In her work she often includes symbolic elements of mashrabiya - a traditional window screen with carved wood latticework found in Islamic architecture. As Hufuna works in a range of media from drawings to installation I decided to focus mainly on her drawings (work on paper) especially ones in which she layers. The main element that she uses is line and I like how this creates sense of architectural structure within the her drawings ( often her work is inspired by architecture). she mainly uses ink and pens on tracing paper and then layers them when i think creates a sense of depth in her work Eszter Bornemisza is a Hungarian, fiber art and mixed ,media artist.. In her work she tries to relieve the unique characteristics of textiles. Her inspiration behind her work is "our relation to trace and settlements of past cultures: the layers of existence. City plans appear as motives, signs, traces, ruins, the silt of the past. As the urban structure develops, widens, thickens, clots and creates subsystems in history, the cities that live within us undergo an endless and continuous evolution. The exploration that appears in most of my works also determines my working process: on the one hand research of civilization history and on the other hand experiment to find the right techniques for my expressions" In Eszter Bornemisxa more recent is large scale translusant textiles. she uses multi-layer and form cities network into 3D objects and installation using, recycled paper, reprinted newspapers, discarded threads and yarns in the netted and 3D objects. Jeremy Wood"Jeremy Wood is an artist and mapmaker. He introduced GPS drawing to investigate the expressive qualities of digitally tracing his daily movements. For over a decade he has been exploring GPS satellite technology as a tool for digital mark making on water, over land, and in the air. His work binds the arts and sciences by using languages of drawing and technology to present a personal cartography ( the science or practice of drawing maps). By revealing ones tracks the technology can introduce new approaches to travel, navigation and local awareness. GPS drawing and mapping engages a range of creative applications and challenges perceptions of scale by travelling as a geodetic pencil." what I find most fascinating about his work is his used of an innovative or non traditional drawing method to track his movement in order to create a personal map, Inspired by his work I tracked my movement around East London for about a week using googles maps/gps
To learn about my family history I spoke to my parents and grandparents, and realized that I have a very complicated and confusing family history. However in all the confusion there was one particular part that interested me the most. I know that my dad side of the family have always been Muslims from the time of the prophet. I also know that my mums side were originally Hindu. I was curious to learn about who in my ancestry converted and what was the story behind it. In order to learn about this I spoke to my great-uncle. Speaking to my great uncle I learnt that it was my great-great-great granddad, (mum's,dad's, great-granddad) who had converted. He lived in an Bodhan (Navsari, Gujarat, India) and at the age of 16 he left home and traveled to Rangoon (Ayeyarwady, Burma) where he lived with a Muslim family and set he own business. At the age of 25 converted to Islam when he married to a Burmese women. Later in life, he was once traveling by horse and cart and fell off, seriously injured the family decided to move back to India in order to get better treatment. Upon arriving at his home village he found he was not welcomed by his parents or sibling and was forced to settle in a village called Vesma (Navsari, Gujarat, India). and continued his family there. I learnt about my great-granddad who I have met, twice in my life, before he passing way in 2008. He had traveled a lot to places like Burma, South Africa and parts of Europe. He worked as an accountant and spoke flaunt English in his youth.
My Granddad was also born and raised in Versma but moved to England around the age of 14-16. He studied here for a few year and had numerous jobs including being a taxi driver before becoming a Driving instructor. He married in India, and called his wife, my Nan, over My Mother and her sibling were all born in London. My Dad had also moved to the UK from India when he married my mother. My Father also travels a lot especially to Saudi Arabia at least 2 or 3 times in a year and has been doing this for the last 15 years. From what I have gathered travel and migration played in important role in my family as well as my family history in one way or another. I feel like it is part of who I am, not only in the fact that I enjoy traveling and seeing new places even if it is within London but also where I come from and places I associate with. Lottie Jackson-eeles is a British Artist, born in Surrey and studied at the University of Creative Arts, 'As a result of my interaction and personal experience of urban spaces I aim to create ‘other worldly’ environments to which the viewer can escape. Through the lineage of suggestive elements, I invite the viewer to immerse themselves within the framing of a narrative structure, to be involved and enticed by the visual imagery. Through using books it allows me to negotiate and understand the energetic information I’m bombarded with in London and translate it into drawing.' - Lottie Jackson-eeles "Imagery Imaginary' is an ongoing concertina book series (there is currently 6 volumes) in which she maps spaces Lottie Jackson-eeles maps place that she visits. In these she attempts in show her ideal concept of urban space. she uses a ranges of drawing material including; pens, pencils, paints and water colours. Mainly focuses on lines and colour and shape.
Being inspired by her work I want to visit the " Sculptures in the City" 2015 exhibition which a series of sculptures place around central London. I did a few sketches in the concertina book that I made and took loads of pictures, When I get home I then added to it - drawing from the images I had taken and adding colour. I then compared it to the work of Lotties Jackson-eeles and redone my concertina to make it look more like her work however I didn't use bright colours like she dose. Link to my Pinterest board - https://uk.pinterest.com/samirahshaikh/journeys-and-mapping-inspiration/
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