EVALUATION

I came into this project with limited knowledge of forming from the figure, life drawing and figurative context. Although it has always been something I am interested so it was important to me to picked this field as it would be a chance to expand my knowledge and crafting skills. It did! The contextual lectures allowed me to expand and learn by having new influences and a historical understanding. I particularly found this helpful when making a presentation as being shown artist examples inspired me to delve deeper and discover more for myself.

The wide scope of workshops challenged and expanded my skill set and I have now banked new techniques that I can further progress with. it was helpful having these making workshops as the 1 to 1 support and techniques were very helpful. Having the chance to work from life drawing has been really helpful not only to understand the proportions of the figure but also to gain a bigger understanding of clay and applying similar techniques and behaviours it was interesting to compare and contrast the clay to how skin behaves. although at first I found it a little weird having the life drawing session where we held a pose, this session helped me understand the stresses and tensions that the body goes through but also this was helpful for me as I started to communicate and understand these stresses within my own work.

I enjoyed the group aspects of this project and under taking the final embodies encounters task I was able to come at it from a new perspective and consider and play with new understandings and provoking feelings to create and experience by using mixed medias. I really enjoyed working as a group although this is not always the easiest thing as people have differing views and it challenges communication skills, I don’t often get a chance to do it very often but it was interesting how our worked pulled together with similar understanding and ideas, we all had a similar interest with exploring in the realms of wax and the resistance when combined with clay. This outcome explored the tactile nature of fabric and how the composition changed state over time similarly to skin and the fragility of the materials through cracking and ripping. it was interesting having a group conversation as it was helpful to understand other people’s thought processes through this activity and some really interesting narratives arose from it.

Moving on from this project I have developed a real interest in the human form and figurative modelling and it is something I am keen to pursue further. learning initially about the ageing, damaged bodies and inside out I have become interested in attraction and repulsion and how these can be communicated in order to make the audience feel a connection or discomfort, this idea interests me as challenging this could throw up some interesting outcomes.