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