Looking at a collection of expression and emotion
Another idea for a book is to make a collection of portraits, using a range of people and looking at different facial emotions of how they are feeling. I could either use the studio for some shots using people i know, or by going out in to the public and giving people a board to write on how they are feeling and holding it up in front of them showing their expressions. This would be making a collection of expression and emotion within the community.
Some Ideas on my own collections
After doing some research into collections I now need to start thinking about what I want to base my own collections on.
I know I want to focus my collections through the use of photography but I need to figure out what type of photography I will use, and what the collections I will focus on will be.
I've decided that the best way for me to show my collections will be through the use of a book, using the techniques I learnt within the Book Binding tutorial.
I've looked in to the style of photo grams photography and I feel this will give a nice effective outcome to show collections. I think I'll focus on objects that I use for every day to day use.
One idea i have is to make an alphabet book, creating the letters through the use of the objects.
Here are some examples of what photo gram outcomes can be using a range of objects.
I know I want to focus my collections through the use of photography but I need to figure out what type of photography I will use, and what the collections I will focus on will be.
I've decided that the best way for me to show my collections will be through the use of a book, using the techniques I learnt within the Book Binding tutorial.
I've looked in to the style of photo grams photography and I feel this will give a nice effective outcome to show collections. I think I'll focus on objects that I use for every day to day use.
One idea i have is to make an alphabet book, creating the letters through the use of the objects.
Here are some examples of what photo gram outcomes can be using a range of objects.
Tate Modern
Not too long ago I visited the Tate Modern gallery in London where they were holding one of the biggest collections of hats, showing the range of different styles that had ever been made. This was very interesting to see such a huge range of variety. But it did make me realize how collected objects are completely separated from their functions and use all together.
Henry Moore
Henry Spencer Moore was an English sculptor and artist. He was best known for his semi-abstract monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world as public works of art
His forms are usually abstractions of the human figure, typically depicting mother-and-child or reclining figures. Moore's works are usually suggestive of the female body, apart from a phase in the 1950s when he sculpted family groups. His forms are generally pierced or contain hollow spaces. Many interpreters liken the undulating form of his reclining figures to the landscape and hills of his birthplace, Yorkshire
Moore was born in Castleford, the son of a coal miner. He became well-known through his carved marble and larger-scale abstract cast bronze sculptures, and was instrumental in introducing a particular form of modernism to the United Kingdom. His ability in later life to fulfill large-scale commissions made him exceptionally wealthy. Yet he lived frugally and most of the money he earned went towards endowing the Henry Moore Foundation, which continues to support education and promotion of the arts.
Why Do We Collect?
Most of us are collectors. Not surprising, considering our history as hunters and gatherers. What we collect – whether it be works of art or old computers – tells us much about ourselves and our society. Collections can get out of hand and turn in to obsessions for people. What was once a collection of things can quickly turn into absolute clutter, but the collector doesn't see it as clutter. When it gets out of hand like this, the collector can find it very hard to let go of everything they have, it becomes an obsession; This is the difference between hauding and collecting.
Ron Broomfield
This is Ron Broomfield, a retired UK window washer that owns the world’s largest collection of gnomes, and gnome paraphernalia. Clocking in at 1,600 gnomes, Broomfield’s collection is not to be trifled with. But he better watch his back, the second biggest collection apparently is nipping at his heels with 1,597 gnomes.
Between The Mary's Sue's coverage of dwarfs and this gnome collection, I think we’ve pretty much got all the bases covered when it comes to mystical, diminutive peoples.
Henry Cole
Sir Henry Cole (15 July 1808 – 18 April 1882) was an English civil servant and inventor who facilitated many innovations in commerce and education in 19th century Britain. Cole is credited with devising the concept of sending greetings cards at Christmas time, introducing the world's first commercial Christmas card in 1843.
Henry Cole was born in Bath, and educated at Christ's Hospital in London. He began his career at the age of 15 at the Public Record Office, where he became Assistant Keeper and was instrumental in reforming the organisation and preservation of the British national archives.
From 1837 to 1840, he worked as an assistant to Rowland Hill and played a key role in the introduction of the Penny Post. He is sometimes credited with the design of the world's first postage stamp, the Penny Black.
In 1843, Cole introduced the world's first commercial Christmas card, commissioning artist John Callcott Horsley to make the artwork.
Notes and research to do
After reading through the context and brief the first thing I shall do is to research into collectors and collections whilst trying to answer questions such as why do we collect and how it has an impact within society.
Visual Language Brief and Context
Context
The brief is divided into two assignments, both of which explore collectors, collections, collecting and curatorship, and are brought together with the idea of you exhibiting your work. You can choose to look at a particular museum, gallery, collector or group of collectors. You may wish to consider a particular collection or collect something yourself. All that is required is that you consciously consider and analyse how a collection is made, represented and engaged with by audiences.
This brief will enable you to develop a professional level of technical competence and explore creatively your own visual language in the context of narrative, sequence and audience. Both assignments allow you to generate your own content. The brief will be delivered through lectures, workshops, seminars and tutorials.
You should spend approximately 75% of your time on Assignment 1 and 25% of your time on Assignment 2
Brief
1) Book - generate content and produce a book (or multiple books), moving image, or multimedia outcome,
in response to the idea of ‘collecting, collectors and collections’.These books may be included in the end-of-semester exhibition (in addition to the work below) and some will be
selected for the University of Leeds International Book Fair.
2) Exhibition – produce two pieces of work for the Vis Com end-of-semester public exhibition.
Responding to the opportunity to exhibit publicly, you must submit two finished, self-contained pieces of work:
i) a ‘postcard’ no larger than 15cm x 10cm
ii) a piece of work that can either be shown on a showreel or can be wall mounted
These should represent your ‘visual language’. This can be entirely new work or be a development from your ideas about ‘collecting’. The theme for these works and style of the exhibition may be developed and agreed as a group.
We are assessing your ability to study independently and manage your own workload; you may choose the mostappropriate way to organise each of the assignments. Your evaluation should reflect on your workload
management
The brief is divided into two assignments, both of which explore collectors, collections, collecting and curatorship, and are brought together with the idea of you exhibiting your work. You can choose to look at a particular museum, gallery, collector or group of collectors. You may wish to consider a particular collection or collect something yourself. All that is required is that you consciously consider and analyse how a collection is made, represented and engaged with by audiences.
This brief will enable you to develop a professional level of technical competence and explore creatively your own visual language in the context of narrative, sequence and audience. Both assignments allow you to generate your own content. The brief will be delivered through lectures, workshops, seminars and tutorials.
You should spend approximately 75% of your time on Assignment 1 and 25% of your time on Assignment 2
Brief
1) Book - generate content and produce a book (or multiple books), moving image, or multimedia outcome,
in response to the idea of ‘collecting, collectors and collections’.These books may be included in the end-of-semester exhibition (in addition to the work below) and some will be
selected for the University of Leeds International Book Fair.
2) Exhibition – produce two pieces of work for the Vis Com end-of-semester public exhibition.
Responding to the opportunity to exhibit publicly, you must submit two finished, self-contained pieces of work:
i) a ‘postcard’ no larger than 15cm x 10cm
ii) a piece of work that can either be shown on a showreel or can be wall mounted
These should represent your ‘visual language’. This can be entirely new work or be a development from your ideas about ‘collecting’. The theme for these works and style of the exhibition may be developed and agreed as a group.
We are assessing your ability to study independently and manage your own workload; you may choose the mostappropriate way to organise each of the assignments. Your evaluation should reflect on your workload
management
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