Wiaw Hi 2016

So long time, no blog shiite! But life and university got the better of me. Hopefull this year I'll be getting better at putting my work out there for all the scary world to see.

So if you're not in my class or my family you'll not know what's been happening with all the lovelyness that is at Gray's School of Art.

Second year was tough, the amount of work, stress, working, no social life took its tole. Had 3 paintings a semester and I left this at the end of Semester 1 so Semester 2 was ehh yeah different even still.

Figurative, Subject Matters and Ambitious.
All mind boggling in themselves, a lot of head scratching and pondering on any artistic ability I may or may not have.

(March 2015, Oil Paint) Inspired by Daniel Richter and multiple personalities during depression.

 (April 2015, Oil Paint, Household Paint, Paracetamol, Wool, Flour) Inspired by Prunella Clough, and Midwifery

 

(May 2015, Oil Paint, Wool, Gloss Paint) Inspired by Prunella Clough, Justin Mortimer, Chernobyl Nuclear disaster affects on Scotland and Depression)

Itching for a Glitching

Just some videos of  me playing with a glitching app on the internet for my autobiography project. 

Bloody Hell Uni

Wow, that's first semester over with, got a week until we submit everything one by one and get our grades there and then. SHITTING MYSELF!

But I am finally back onto this. Uni has been taking over  my life the past semester, so full on I havnt even been sociable, cray cray man. Oh god what has happened. Its been great though enjoyed it so much and as a class we're more comfortable with each other, so nice.

First this semester we started with the OBJECT PROJECT.
The still life project that confused me and challenged me beyond normality but I finally got there. with ketchup, a palette and a white box.

We then moved onto the SUMMER PROJECT, which I done quite a lot of since I had such a boring summer, this went in the wrong direction then became more meaningful than I expected as it gave a view to what I saw at my lowest during the summer. I wanted a 'boring' painting one that you gaze at see the shapes in nothing and the darkness in light.

SERIES PROJECT was amazing fun. I made people scream at the sight of a vagina during menstruation, different coloured breasts that look like balloons, brought innuendo into the class room and anywhere I went actually. I saw the extent of the sexism and how women see themselves because of influence of the outside world, which women change and criticize themselves. 

This one I inapropriately named it "Don't touch still wet"

18 Polaroid size and styled images based around how women are viewed througout history and how they view themselves.

sculpture depiction

neo classical

gender identity

1st artifact depiction 

Renaissance depiction

fat shaming

its their own body

Periods

breastfeeding hate

Girl who feels they are a boy 

 not fat theyare pregnant(baby weight)

full pubic hair... normal

man who feels they are a girl

bald vagina

self criticism 

modern vagina

natures sex toys

Prude

Just one more to finish AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Am I getting bad at blogging? eh its summer!

Yo,

so this is a needle thrown in an empty haystack, but yeah first blog since May - oh I'm brilliant with this.
So first year of uni is over and all our class had a little summer project to complete for the start of term time and I have to say I'm fairly chuffed at all the sketchbook. I have covered not so much drawing -as I would like - as finding people,, editing photos and playing around with paint..... OH the freedom of a strict BRIEF!
Found out a lot this summer when it comes to my art too, it seriously is my therapeutic output on a stressful or bad day I can just paint like psycho and let my subconscious out into the world to just become normal again for a short period of time, also I've realized I've became kind of a rebel since college as I have more of my own mind when it comes to my work, as I'll do WHAT I WANT TO DO and as long as I'm happy then isn't that all that really matters as its my voice, my mind, my perception being portrayed in an art form.

All we had to do was to visualize our thoughts over the summer period and let our minds go wild with ideas and let it branch into dangerous territory and make our curiosity take over our usual creative-ness.

So here it goes my summer has been a roller coaster as fucking corny and cheesy as it sounds it really has I've been to Stockholm, moved flat, had a couple of breakdowns, started counselling again, celebrated Duns-ness, lost my chav car McKenzie Betsy, 21st birthdays, back and forth from Aberdeen and Scottish borders life, have no money, worked my pants off, had friends take over my house, visited a lot of studios, came to some revelations, watched to much TV series online, failed to mountain bike at Glentress, partied my but off, tried to keep my desire too go to Austria to visit Arnulf Rainers museum at bay and wanted the summer to be over in July so I could have uni normality back oh and died in the heat about 5 million times!

ENJOY...... p.s oh yeah so sorry for how incredibly long this is!

old piece I updated recently

an Idea I wanted to explore on a smaller idea this would ideally be in a large mirrored square box hanging in the middle of a  room each area represents something on my reflection

a edited scan of my left over oil paints

my illustrator flatmate has inspired me

great book! such inspiration much enjoyment

primark life

journeys

glentress mountain biking

Cause I Had A Bad Week

Don't Judge

Grays school of Art bitches

Dark reflections

So thats my sketchbook so far and yes since I started writing this post I have done another couple of pages. Hopefully a painting can come out of this summer of creative freedom, I'm not sure what but lets see.

Let second year commence!

Thanks for reading and wasting your time ;)

Annie