Bethany Hill: Art And Inspirations

Jo McGonigal’s practice and research engages with emergent debate on new materialism and theories of the haptic in relation to painting. By taking painting apart and focusing on its physical components, she examines how the material components of painting affect the experience of the viewer, not what the painting means but what it does. In addition to her own practice McGonigal has worked as an arts professional for over 20 years including: curating projects for FACT, Liverpool, and Liverpool Biennial; establishing Corridor8 (an international journal for art & writing); and lecturing in Fine Art at Leeds Metropolitan University and Manchester School of Art at Manchester Metropolitan University. I like some of McGonigals work. I really like that fact that she studies a lot about the subject matter she is portraying. I also really like how she varies between space and architectures or something playful and fun. I really like the idea of being simple with art and keep it bold.

3D art has height, width and depth and is mainly associated with ceramics, sculpture and anything that can be held. For this project we was asked to get in to pairs and find out each others likes and dislikes, a bit like a speed dating session but we had to make a list about it. I wasn't in for this little exercise so I asked my step dad so that I could get on with the work. After doing that little exercise we had to pick something to create of the list so I picked 2 things which were sports and Vespa's, so I decided to make little Vespa's out of news paper that was all about sports. I kind of struggles with this project because I wasn't in to hear exactly what to do but I feel like it went alright in the end, I quiet like the little series I did because they wasn't perfect but it kind of shows what I wanted it to show.    

2D art is basically flat art and can be created by printmaking, pencil, charcoal, acrylic paint, water colour and the more commonly used mediums along with most digital art At the start of this project we had to choose 5 ready made objects to work with. I chose to work with a key, circuit board ,patch work from a pillow cover ,wadding and bubble wrap. then went on to creating 6 A2 drawings all based on these 5 objects to help get familiar with them. So each drawing that I did , I looked at patterns and synchronization. I really liked how these drawings worked out because they where simple and you could see elements of each object with in each piece. After doing these drawings, we explored the print making work shop. We mainly looked at screen printing. for this we started by creating 2 A5 separations on tracing paper ,based on 1 of the 6 drawings. Sadly I wasn't in for the actual print session so instead I made 2 separations by making 2 separate paper cutting st

Ryan Gander is an artist whose work ranges from installations, sculptures and photographs to performative lectures, publications, inventions and interventions. Gander examines the conditions of art production and the cognitive process of the perception of art. His body of works forms a labyrinth of inter-related narratives often based on real incidents or characters or existing artworks. 'Absence' plays a central role in Gander's work and lends the works an enigmatic aura. It invites the viewer to re-establish a story's hidden character or object's possible function and by that illuminates the process of making meaning of a work of art. I really like how this guy presents his work and is very determined and doesn't let his disability stop him from doing what he enjoys. I also like his work, its simple but has got so much behind the work.  For example :    This piece is called "Robbed us with the sight of what we should have known (20

        For this project, I decided to carry on with the "fail" project and looked more carefully in to the word fail. I carried on with the technique I was using with in the fail project looking at patchy memories and tangled thoughts and emotion. I really enjoyed this project because I worked in the way I like to work with all materials spread out around me and producing work at quiet a fast pace.   For my final piece for this project, I decided to work with thread, emulation, acrylic and charcoal on a big piece of calico. I took this piece out of my A6 sketchbook and increased the size by 20x roughly. I didn't really think about time when I was doing this piece because I was just having fun with it and getting carried away until it came to making the thread thicker which ended up taking about 5 rolls of black thread because I wanted to make the piece similar to the piece in my book.   The task after that was to find a place to display th

David Armes is an artist working with letterpress printing, language and geography. His work is frequently site- specific and considers how sense of place can be represented. He uses hand-set type with more expressive approaches. He likes to work with paper folding, surface pattern prints, automatic prints and pressure printing. Armes designed all of his own bands album covers using letterpress printing which he experiments using different materials as a surface. I really like Armes work because most of Armes work is landscape-based, he transforms a photo of a landscape in to a landscape of words and a varity of colours and shapes.

4D art contains a wide variety of art practices, but generally is divided in to 3 genres which are, Installation art, issue of site and audience interaction, hoe context alters meaning and impact. But overall 4D practice is very much time based. For this project I looked at the artist Tehching Hsich. From 1980 to 1981, Hsich spent the entire year punching time  cards every hour for a project called "one year performance 1980-1981". Each time he punched his time card, he would have his photo taken, then every single photo that was taken from the whole year was put together to make a time-lapse that lasted around 6 minutes long. So after looking at Hsich performance work, I then bega n to explore with time by making my own little time-lapse. The first time-lapse I did was set to take a picture every 2 minutes for 30 minutes, I really liked how good it looked when all the images was put together. As soon as I got back to my flat, I put my camera on charge

Danielle Freakley is an Australian born artist she works in performance, sculpture, reasonable dancing , sound text or what ever other materials work to digest the idea at the time. Her performance change daily social communication and relationships exposing historical and lurking private projections and subtext. This usually happens in collaboration with audience who accidentally perform with her.  I really like her performance art because its completely different. The piece I liked the most was the "don't quote me on that" she spent 3 years just quoting everything she was saying, its just the most weird thing to do but it must of took a lot of practice to remember each and ever quote and also remember when and where that quote was made from.