Shaun Project Space Crit 1
- Lucy Archer
- Nov 5, 2016
- 2 min read
(click the names to explore their artwork)
Prison Door- like 5 paintings on 1 canvas, 4 wonky pictures on a door, abstract portraits. He uses a relaxed style of paintings, but also could be seen as quite rapid. Looks like watercolour clouds. It is very much a painting, it couldn't really be done well in any other medium. Removed from reality. This paining is best suited in a white cube gallery in my opinion. The subject matter is also quite challenging.
Mirror- very much an alter piece. Not seeing your own reflection in the mirror is rather unusual. The multiple heads seem to go on for infinity, makes you question reality. He has painted the original painting how he sees it through the mirror. Could be showing Charles Bronson's distorted personality. The 3 mirrors that he used are traditionally about beauty, challenging stereotypes.
i found Stuart's model of a head very interesting, from where i was sitting in the space, the head looked like it was made from wood, turns out he had molded it out of clay and had painted it to look like wood. I enjoyed the illusion of it. the leaf that looked placed on top of its head, was placed in such a way, that it looked like it referenced a fashion element, perhaps pretending to be something its not. Most of Stuart's work had links to leaves and nature. One piece in particular, a man's face made of leaves, reminded me of the Greenman spirit.
William Ramsey
All of Will's work was very precise. all the angles and lines were perfectly, industrially straight. His large works were made with tape, explaining why it was so neat. He used an everyday object to create geometric pieces, reminding me a lot of 70's modernism. I liked how even his paintings seemed so accurate, despite being messy.
