1. Explorations in Creative Process MIVC 405
AY: 2013/14
Semester One: Surface Design (Tuesdays)
Semester Two: Moving Image (Mondays)
2. Tuesday, 24th
September 2013
Schedule Today
10am – 10:45am Lecture
Overview of Module, Project Brief &
Broad Context of Surface Design
10:45am Coffee Break (15mins, please return promptly)
11am – 3pm Inductions
Printmaking Inductions with Graham Williams in A3 Printmaking Workshop
G+ Inductions with Caroline & Liz in Library’s Mac Lab CR1 (L1.08)
3 – 4pm Help Surgery
Any issues or problems please come and see us
4pm Tutors Finish
Start posting in your G+ Blog
3. Module Operating Spaces & Learning Tools
Your University Email Account (Communication)
Blackboard (Module Specific Information)
Your University G+ Account (social network and assessed blog)
Studios and work production areas (Make, Test, Experience other’s work)
Your Tutors and fellow classmates (Audience, Feedback, Practice Critique)
Any obstacles to your using these tools and
spaces...
PLEASE DO ASK FOR HELP
4. Project Brief: Under Surface
Create surface designs that are inspired by your exploration of creative
process and that visually express the idea of ‘Under Surface’.
Aims: Create a surface design that:
Attracts by engaging the viewer’s senses (aesthetic)
Conveys meaning in context to a studied idea or exercised practice
Evolved from your creative exploration and visual experiments
Deliverables: A final artifact that:
Attempts to function within the above aims
May take any form or size but is visually documented to exist in your online G+
blog and your physical A2-3 portfolio
Deadline for final submission:
Time: 12pm (Midday) Thursday 9th
January 2014,
Location: Level 4 Studios (physical portfolio) & G+ Blog (digital)
5. Project Brief: Under Surface
Method and Scope:
The ideal strategy is to explore creative process as a way to generate new ideas
whilst developing your visual craft
You can use any topical or experimental approaches in finding your own
conceptual position of ‘Under Surface’
You will receive plenty of guidance from tutors and peers to help follow a topic
of enquiry in relation to ‘Under Surface’.
Curricular set activities are planned to develop and improve your skills and
practice so take full advantage of these
Use rigorous reflective thinking to drive your ideas forward. Try to explain
where and how your own opinions and creative decisions were sourced and
informed
30. List of Images Shown
Philip George ‘Borderlands’ 2008
Cueva de las manos (cave of hands) approx 1100 BC
Katherina Grosse ‘Spray paintings’
Abigail Lane ‘Bottom Wallpaper’ 1992-7 ‘Bloody Wallpaper’ 1995
Forensic crime photo 1950’s America
Russian Prison Tatoos 1990’s photographs by Sergei Vasiliev
Wax print Textiles collection by Vlisco
West African Political Textiles (ANC Nelson Mandela)
Timorous Beasties ‘London Toile’
Mariane Bantjes ‘Fire’ & ‘Kittens’ wrapping paper
Further Resources
V&A Museum
‘Cave of Forgotten Dreams’ Directed by Werner Herzog
Zaha Hadid Architect ‘Imagine’ BBC series with Alan Yentob
Design Centre, Chelsea Harbour, London. http://www.dcch.co.uk/
http://kategibb.co.uk/
Notas del editor
Cueva de las manos, Santa Cruz, Argentina. Stenciled hands with blow pipe. 13,000-9,000 years ago
Cueva de las manos, Santa Cruz, Argentina. Stenciled hands with blow pipe. 13,000-9,000 years ago
Katherina Grosse
Katherina Grosse
Katherina Grosse
Philip George ‘Borderlands’ 2008 (boards shaped by Mark Rabbidge) George designed the range of 30 'Inshallah' or 'God Willing' boards in response to his trips to the Middle East, and to the Cronulla Race Riots in 2005, in an effort to create a lesser divide between East and West.
Abigail Lane:. Bottom Walllpaper (Blue), Inked Chairs 1992-97 Blue acrylic paint on lining paper Each Roll - 56cm x 10m Photo by Richard K. Loesch. 'Apocalyptic Wallpaper', Wexner Art Center, Ohio,USA, 1997
Abigail Lane: Bottom Print 1992 Black acrylic paint on paper 75 x 56 cm ( paper size)
Abigail Lane: Bloody Wallpaper. 1995 Bloody Wallpaper with Concrete Dog 1995 Ink on lining paper Each Roll - 56cm x 10m 'Corpus Delicti', Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1995
Abigail Lane: Bloody Wallpaper. 1995 Bloody Wallpaper (detail) 1995 Ink on lining paper Each Roll - 56cm x 10m Photo by Ed Woodman. 'Skin of the Teeth', ICA London, 1995
Abigail Lane: Bloody Wallpaper. 1995. Original Forensic photo 1950’s America
These haunting images were taken in the early 1990s by photographer Sergei Vasiliev after he gained access to some of Russia's toughest prisons at the peak of the gang wars that followed the break up of the Soviet Union. Russian Prison Tatoos Danzig Baldaev's father was an academic, an ethnologist who found himself imprisoned under Soviet rule as an enemy of the people. In fact much of Baldaev's family moved through the Soviet prison system, while he became a guard. At his father's suggestion, Danzig used his access to document and study the tattoos that were pervasive among the truly criminal portion of the prison population, the vory v zakonye , or legitimate thieves, a semi-professional class who kept their own brutal laws. During his 30 years supervising inmates in St. Petersburg's notorious Kresty Prison,
African political textiles
African waxprint textilesmade in Holland http://www.vlisco.com/home/en/page/305/
Mariane Bantjes ‘Fire Wrapping Paper’
Mariane Bantjes ‘Hemlock Wrapping Paper’
Leon Keer
Example of Toile de Jouy fabric
Tomorous Beasties London Toile
University of Westminster student Sarah London Signs
University of Westminster student Jo Cheung London Signs
University of Westminster student Jo Cheung London Signs
University of Westminster student Jo Cheung London Signs
University of Westminster student Jo Cheung London Signs