…Katharine Morling

I feel like Katharine’s work is quickly becoming some of my favourite! The way the media is so disguised makes you want to look at any of her work for ages just capturing what it means to you. She uses ceramics and paints them to bring to life their still life aspects.

I think she manages to create a huge amount of movement in the pieces even though they are just still and sitting there.

My work can be described as 3 dimensional drawings, in the medium of ceramics. Each piece, on the surface, an inanimate object, has been given layers of emotion and embedded with stories, which are open for interpretation in the viewer’s mind.

‘Matches’ is my favourite piece here I think as it is quite a simple form but the movement is portrayed so well, in my opinion, and this makes it really interesting to ‘watch’…

…Week Eleven…’Street Art’

STREET ART

I cannot help but feel this is completely defeating the point of street art and its spontaneous, unplanned nature. For it to have been planned by the gallery kind of ruined it for me. Part of street art is for it to have a side of rebellion to it and you never know what you will find or where you will find it but this is all planned out and consented and has none of that spirit to it. I don’t even really like any of the actual work of this group of artists except for the use of colour in the first one.

…Week Ten…’Staircase – III’

DO HO SUH

Alike to the artist here, transitional spaces also attract my attention so this project is really interesting to me. The way that it has been constructed from material and suspended means it is moveable and again I like the idea of how it does not need to always be in one place.

It’s really engages the viewer by letting them imagine where they could be in relation to this suspended structure. You can let your imagination unfold as to where the staircase could be, who uses it, which rooms are attached above and below………

Do Ho Suh was born in Korea and moved to live and work in New York and London. He has created other installments such as ‘home within home’ and also a new york apartment series…

…Week Three…David Hepher

DAVID HEPHER

David Hepher is a British artist who bases his paintings almost solely around landscapes or ‘housescapes’ – mostly housing estates. He was born in Surrey 1935 and studied first at the Camberwell School of Art and then further at the Slade School of Art. Being a painter is something that has been a part of Hepher’s lifestyle for the majority of his life, and it still is.

The only piece of Hepher’s artwork that I find interesting is his oil painting ‘Camberwell Flats by Night’ – 1983

I picked this piece of artwork because of the great effect of the luminous green highlights of shadow from streetlights that are shown in it. There are also lots of different angles to the balconies and different window frames which I like too. The substantial 3D effect from the 2D painting is also well done.

If I am completely honest, I don’t think I could have watched another minute of this video. I found the artwork quite boring and simplistic in concept, although obviously a huge amount of time, skill and effort has gone into creating every single one. It is in no way my intention to come across as a snob but I find paintings and pieces of work of such a genre very uninteresting. The one thing from this that I do actually like is the way that he uses certain different medias in some of his paintings that you wouldn’t necessarily expect to go into them but that make the painting ‘more real’ e.g. concrete or sand (in his London and French paintings).