My New Furniture

I found these chairs and framed art work in a shop in Leeds which sold a range of stuff. I like the chairs because they're plastered with comic strips, cartoons, 'Dennis the Menace'. I like the childhood take on furniture, something that's visible all the time but been refurbished in a sense because of an interest and nostalgia. For my personal project I'm going to experiment with furniture, with scale and pieces that make iconic furniture.

FROM BACK HOME / Anders Petersen and JH Engstrom

I went to this exhibition at the National Media Museum in Bradford, and found their take on photography and the way they display it more appealing than the way photography is generally exhibited. In 2001, Petersen and Engström began a seven-year collaboration to photograph the Värmland, the central western area of Sweden where both men spent their formative years. Travelling into the heart of their subject, their potent and captivating photographs became an intense voyage of discovery into both the place and people that shaped them, and their associations with one another. The body of work was published in an award winning book but no exhibited. The images range from affectionate, brutal and sometimes funny, and shows their relationship and how they experienced the same emotions. I find the way the multiple photographs blown up into a large frame intriguing as your eye wanders around them all and each photo has a different emotion.

When a chore leads to inspiration

Cleaning my bedroom lead to some inspiration, messiness leads to ideas. I like the way objects can get thrown together unconsciously and looking at the way the ripped piece of an envelope and the insulating foam squirter work well together, with a bold silhouette and shape on top of a patterned background. I could progress on this.

Mary Gregg exhibition / Link Gallery

Exhibiting my work for Liz from Platt Hall and to showcase it in the Link gallery was exciting but also interesting to see how I would display it. I feel like it works well and was happy with the big wall that I got for my space. The clamps work well on the plinths and are effective from different angles. Liz was complementary on my work and the photographic display of the envelopes which she found interesting so I was happy with that !

Clamped

Secrecy and privacy are themes in my work for the Mary Gregg project, her letters were read but I want mine to remain concealed and the G Clamps were a effective way to portray this. It makes them more intriguing as well as aesthetically pleasing. They look better 'forced' together and I've used smaller clamps to contrast the power between the clam and the envelope.

60xA1

This sheet has 35 of my favourite envelopes but unlike the other sheets, it has a random sequence. It highlights the way the envelopes have adopted different characters and contrasts. I'm going to print this as an A1 sheet as part of my exhibition in the Link Gallery.

60xEnvelopes: The Big Sheets

Whilst laying out each envelope I found them to be more interesting at this angle, they each have their own character and the way they are opened is more interesting than the contents. I've progressed with this by photographing all 60 envelopes and laying them out to produce a full sheet of envelopes.

Each sheet has 15 envelopes on them, with the front and back of each envelope sequenced together. There's variations of the way each letter has been opened and the way they've 'aged', as they have been in my cellar for 4 years. I'm going to print these out on A2 and display them as part of my exhibition for the project.