Other Peoples Works At Metal

Metal Exhibition

 

 For the Metal exhibition I decided that I wanted to create something that was 3D and freestanding and this is what I created. To do this I collaged 4 cardboard boxes with pages from fashion magazines, I also collaged an old suitcase trolley in the same way. I than made some paper roses, also out of magazine pages.

The theme of this project is celebrity obsession, so I wanted the boxes to represent a kind of social pyramid with normal people on the bottom and celebrities on the top, the flowers represent obsessed fans and the tall box representing the celebrities that they obsess over. With the flowers discarding other celebrities and trying to get to their obsession.

I an really happy with how this project turned out and thing that it looked really good in the Metal exhibition space.  

Tea Bags/Research 2

 

I also found this image on Pinterest, however this image are much more like what I want to create and partly were I got my inspiration for my Tea Bag Collages.

 

I particularly liked this image below, as it is pretty much how I saw my tea bag collages looking. Using small images that I have cut out of magazines, I wanted them to be similar to this image, but I also wanted them to look like a development of my bigger collages. 

 

By Colette Copeland

 

Tea Bags/Research 1

This is an image I found when I was doing my research/looking for images. I found this particular image on Pinterest and it really caught my eye. I find this image really interesting and I have used it as inspiration for some of my collage pieces, although I didn't use tags to collage onto, I used tea bags and my collage was a little different.

 

 

This is an image I also found on Pinterest, I liked this image as it incorporates tea bags, and I plan to use them in my own work. However I don't want to do the collage around the tea bag, but actually use the tea bag as a background to collage onto.

Metal - Cardboard Box Research

For the project/exhibition at 'Metal' at Edge Hill Station, we were tasked to involve a box in our work. I decided that I wanted to use a cardboard box for this project, but didn't really know what I was going to do with it or how it would link to my project so far. So I did some research to find a starting point and inspiration.

I found these images on Pinterest, the images above is a charcoal and chalk drawing in a ripped piece of cardboard from a cardboard box. I liked this image, and I decided that I could collage onto the flat cardboard like I did with the envelopes, but I later decided that I wanted to create something 3D and free standing.

After I had my rethink I did further research and found the other images. I really like the idea if having the images, in my case it would be my collages inside of the box.

Kurt Schwitters

 

Kurt Schwitters (born 1887- died 1948) was a German artist. He worked in many different genres and medias, including; Dada, Constructivism, Surrealism, Poetry, Sound Art, Painting, Sculpture, Graphic Design, typography and what came to be known as Installation Art. However he was most famous for his collages, called 'Merz' pictures. Influenced by Expressionism and Cubism, he created his own form of Dada in 1918 in Hanover.

 

He called this genre 'Merz', using rubbish material such as labels, bus tickets and bits of broken wood.

     

'Merz' is a nonsense word invented by Schwitters to describe his collage and assemblage works based on scavenged scrap materials.

 

Schwitters made large numbers of collages in this media, and is said to have extracted the word 'Merz' from 'Commerz Bank' which appeared on a piece of paper used in one of his collages.

 

Rob Ryan - Papercutting

 

Rob Ryan (Born 1962) is a British visual artist who specialises in paper cutting and screen printing. He is most famous for his detailed and delicate pare cut outs and his work has featured in Vogue. Elle and Stylist, and he as also collaborated with fashion designer Paul Smith. His work is the result of painstakingly hand cutting delicate papers.

Ryan's cut outs were born from his sketchbooks. At the time he wasn't doing a lot of print-making, as he didn't have his own printing studio, so he was doing a lot of writing in his sketchbook. He wanted to do something new and started these paper cut outs, with cut out words, not really knowing what he was doing.

Ryan's intricate and beguiling paper cut outs have acquired a huge public following and have appeared in collaborations with high profile figures in the fashion world; including Lulu Guinness, Tatty Devine, Liberty of London and Ernest Sewn.

I found this image in an issue of Elle that I was looking through for images to use in collages. I really enjoy Rob Ryan's work and feel that it really links in well with my work, as he has created a lot of work based on the Pop culture and fashion world.

I haven't used paper cutting in my own work, however I have kind of been inspired by Ryan's work as I have created some collages that emulate his work/style. however I created mine using collage and hand drawn typography.

 

My work inspired by Rob Ryan:

 

 

My Collages 11

Tea Bag Collages

To create these experiments/collages, I used tea bags that have the string attached as they remind me of tags, and some of the research images that I found on Pinterest.

Firstly I soaked the tea bags in warm water, so that they would stain. I then dried them out and emptied them of the tea, I wanted these just to be smaller versions of the collages that I created using the envelops. I stuck the images/collages on the outside of the tea bags instead of having them inside like the other.

I really like these not having wax on the outside, however I might try some with wax on in the future if I have time.

 

 

 

 

Tea Bags - Wax 3

After I had done a few waxed round tea bags, I decided that I wanted to try and do some more but with square or rectangular tea bags.

I found the fact that that these tea bags are much more square and have straight edges a lot easier to work with than the round ones because it was easier to get the images/collages to fit better and they are slightly bigger which made it easier to find images that would fit inside.

I tea stained the tea bags first as I knew, from the round ones that I had done before, that I preferred the brown tint over the image more than the clean white tea bags.