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Fancy little chairs. I like this idea of taking un-expected materials and turning them into a representation of useable object.

Adam Heiss: 'Underground series.'

'Subway tunnel are like another world which exists underneath everday reality.'

Blackpool is a grim place, it seems to have fallen down from its once high stature in British society. Having visited Blackpool quite a lot since birth, this work really connected to my own ideas about Blackpool and how it seems to be clinging on whilst the drunks and penis hat wearing 'stag-du' men try to pull it away. The images capture the fading bold colour and the now high unemployment rates and low tourism in Blackpool.

The work above attracted my attention because it is similar to my use of lines and colour,yet it seems to be based on the contours of land and locations.The 2 other blue 2d works also use 'parrallel walls,interlocking cylinders and repetitive forms. Somewhere between the pen,paper surface and hand,the story takes place,' in this representation of 'an architecture waiting to take place.'

Emily speed: Egg- nest- home-country-universe.

This work is described as miniature architecture, a 'hybrid form of incubator/shelters,' with the aim of this work being to convey how architecture affects the shaping of our identities. The title of the work was inspired by, 'The Hunchback of Notredame,' which i did not expect. I LOVED this work with a passion,the use of such delicate little eggs and architectural elements was quite humorous but conveyed a message to me of the idea of home and what home means and how themes such as architecture can be interpreted in interesting ways.

These models are so tiny and intricate yet they communicate so much which i found intriguing. I interpreted this work as small representations a derelict areas,in which piles of discarded broken pieces of objects can be found in piles. I think this work is by Carly Fischer,whose work focuses on the gentrification of contemporary urban space and the reproduction of an aesthetic. Fisher explores the fetishisation of junk,the piles become design objects.'

Foetus projection

I projected this film onto a giant hanging sculpture/installation.My inspiration being ' The Matrix,' (1999) and the idea of grown humans in a futuristic distopia.It all sounds very deep but i was simply interested in how to create an interesting audience expirience that would be remebered.I created this piece last year but i would like to create something similar this year, maybe something furry.

A very greeny blue pancake

CORNERHOUSE exhibitions Jan - March: People your not and Carey Young:Memento Park.

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Manchester Art Gallery:RECORDERS. rafael lozano-hemmer

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Rafael Lozano-Hemmers' 'Recorders,' has run since 18th september - 31st January at Manchester Art Gallery. The exhibition is geared towards audience participation,an audience of all ages and artistis/political/general knowlege can understand and enjoy this exhibition.I was thoroughly entertained and intrigued by the work,which put the I in Interactive art (i know that is slightly cheesy,but true.) Every aspect of the exhibition,such as the information and titles for each work,the lighting and layout is all geared towards the idea of surveillance and technology.

CUBEopen Exhibition Nov 2010-Jan 2011

Elizabeth West: 'Red trolley,yellow trolley,blue trolley.'(2009)

Shan Hur : 'Forgotten No 2,'2010.

Lee cambell: ' Red alert.'2010

Julia Munz and Annika Unterburg: 'Mobile architecture Model.'2008.

On entering the exhibition,i wasn't sure what to expect,it had been a fair few months (a year) since i had even ventured into the 'Cube' gallery,yet i was pleasantly surprised.It seems to me that people misunderstand the gallery as architecture obsessed when it is less concerned by this really and many of my best ideas have been conjured through seeing their exhibitions. The photographs above are a collection of installation based works that caught my attention. In particular the HARD HATS. The hard hat work by Munz and Annika used audience participation,humour but also a clear message of taking an architectural models and bringing in the 'conventions of the public realm' to convey the idea of 'possible and impossible future developments.' I also enjoyed the Shan Hur piece, i'm not sure on the artists' gender so please pardon the 'she/he' use.The work consisted of a vase encapsulated in the gallery wall. At first I wanted to know was how the artists had got away with smashing a massive hole in the wall, then i read the artists' statement. She/he explains how since being a child,'through my right eye i have been experiencing a very strange phenomenon,there have always been spots in my visual field.' I love anything like this, odd little individualities that make us all unique. She/He continues to say that the spots always seemed like some kind of map to hidden treasure,hence the vase in the wall. I just think that this work is so random yet completely rational and simple. It has forced me to think about how we all view life differently and colours,textures may look and feel different to a section of society.

Lee cambell and Liz West explored commercialism and used collection of similar objects to convey their point. Cambell uses a mass of 'buy one get one free' stickers. When my eyes fell upon these,i felt a sense of elation and excitement,this is what i feel when i see these stickers. My reaction made me realise the power that commercial industries have over the public. The work seems to grow like a poison out of the wall,whilst Liz Wests' work simply sits in the supermarket, a collection of items of the same colour. Her statement reads,' the work objects are often densely arranged in orders in compact spaces to form intensely coloured installations,video and photographic works displayed in architectural spaces,shops,markets and museums.' In the work displayed in the exhibition, West used the inetense collections of colour to highlight our how colour may look in mass in such a colourful environment as the supermarket were we seem to be attacked by colour and were colour is so highly constructed to affect what we buy.

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