Dion Hitchens(sculpture), Bill Riley(painter) and James Ormsby(drawer) presentation

In this Lecturer we were really fortunate to have 3 male artists come in and present there work to us as a class ,Dion Hitchens(sculpture), Bill Riley(painter) and James Ormsby(drawer) .They are a team which share there work together in some exhibitions held for exhibitors and viewers of the public to view and be captured by there projects . The first thing that captured my attention is when James showed us this code Z=Z²₊C thats suppose to relate to there work. I found the code really interesting, so i took the time to find more about it online, it ended up taking me to more codes which just got me confused and frustrated and was hard for me to understand but what James mentioned was that its got to do with caios which reflects to each of these artist and there projects. The second thing i found interesting is how they don't like to stay to just one particular style of art individually , they like to change up there ideas even if they have to share ideas. I like that because it shows team work and good potential attribute to there career . This blog really got me thinking that it would be a great adventure an idea to work as a goup with different people that have different expertise in art than me so i can learn and find more ideas to help me claim a new style to upgrade my art skills , though i know there will be down sides like having different opinions on something and viewing an aspect differently which can cause drama. Hitchens said that James work reflects to his work but in the images i've seen , they are completely different. I think maybe its more to do with Dions work and how he uses installation using copper wire and a sound track. I also found that Bily Rileys work was more fascinating beacause it was all made by hand with the help of students at schools, 1200 paper oragami's were made and surprisingly none of them got squashed at the exhibitions. I also liked his recycled cardboards he used that were stacked all up, i think over 4000 cardboard was painted to perform this art-piece and thats not including the unpainted ones. i liked how he let the viewers touch his projects and let them interact with his work so that the sculpture could be seen as it was last tampered with.

Mary Curtis Presentation .

Mary Curtis , a New Zealand practitioner jeweler and also a great tutor , what i know about Mary is that she takes great care of her work and perfects presentation and composition to a high standard. she is a very nice lady but is not scared to take risks when she believes in something , I think she made alot of us as a class realise the importance of clear and defined art pieces that come from being motivated and being continuously constructive.

Mary Curtis goes out and looks for random objects that she likes ,its usually small things and what she does is make replica versions of beautiful jewelery by using the items she finds maybe when she's walking through the park or even walking home. i like how she takes her time at placing and decorating the position of her works because it shows in her composition in each project when its been displayed.

decoration is a big part of her exhibitions she holds , i like how she got the idea of presenting her works in large glass cases for each of her very small jewelry designs . i know she spent alot of time searching for these glass cases and the amount of money she spent to get them and that's why i like her because she has a desire to create something she see's in her mind and she'll take many risks to get to what she wants . I think shes a great inspiration for me if i want to get what i want most in my life. Mary likes to position her work to give her art piece a more unique look to the setting and background to let the exhibitor or visitor observe her pieces in another complex perspective.

Leilani's Presentation

Todays blog that i'm doing is about Leilani Kake, I did not attend her presentation due to personal reasons that unfortunately stop me from coming to class that daybut i've managed to grab some notes and now able to comprehend what happened that day.

Leilani Kake , M.I.T lecturer who specializes in video installation . Leilani enjoys capturing processes such as when she showedus as a class a documentation of her papa getting a moko to his face and the stages of how that day was planned trough culture and kaupapa such as doing a karakia and managing all that has to be done before getting everything in proportion to respect our maori tanga . i think by seeing the videos and research about her really brings me to the conclusion that she feels really strong about her beliefs and is proud to be part Maori . Unfortunately Leilani's papa had a intense stroke and was sent to hospital with immense care from doctors and nurses ,I think as soon as Leilani found out she would be filled with freight and sadness , she grabbedher camera and started filming him at the hospital, and soon after that you notice the film shows the next stage of movement to the sequence and sadly it was a scene of her papas tangi, the closure of her film ended with pictures of him and then seeing him play a guitar and ending the sequence with a waiata called Tangi a te ruru meaning the owl is crying, in other words bringing someone back . I think its so interesting that he would sing a song like that because the sequence ended up with him passing away which made me feel sorrow for Leilani to hear that waiata being sung by her own father.

Leilani has many influences such as Merata Mita, Ron Crocombe, Epeli Hau'ofa, Sir Peter Buck-te Rangi Hiroa . I think these artist really helped who she is today because each of these relate to some of her projects and ideas such as her film on her papa that she showed us as a class .

after the session with Leilani we all took a trip to Te Tuhi art gallerywhere DVA got to see many projects being displayed , i know i did not attend class that day, so i took the time to find some projects that was there and found a video of a house in Detroit covered in ice displayed at the gallery , when i first saw the house i was completely surprised, i couldn't believe the state it was in and how the owner would let it get like that. Gregory Holmes is the man who directed and produced this project called Ice House Detroit along with collabrator and architect Mathew Redune. I believe that the owner hoses his house down with water nearly everyday and with amazing repetition of rain and the pure coldness that Detroit gets in winter season .

Frances Hansen's Presentation.

Frances Hansen introduced us as a class, a seminar on what she does now and on her past work . As she progressed in her presentation we found that she had a range of talent through art such as painting mixed media and also installation works which brought us to the attention that she enjoys collecting . She collects things and uses them in such a form that creates interesting and fascinating projects such as jewellery . Frances mentioned that she uses collections in many different ways , one of her projects introduced weeds where she started a calibration of MSVA students and New Castle Art school to form artwork that introduces weeds and then Frances would gather all of them and display them as a collection of linked artwork frames.

I don't use much collection in my work but i do file my research and projects in groups , I think the only things i collected was bus tickets because I knew i spent alot of money a day just taking bus rides and its been like that since i was a young child , i thought if i start collecting them that as a year goes past that i could surprise myself with the amount of tickets i would end up with and it slowly became an addiction .

Lisa Congdon ,another collecting artist who has a small obsession for school supplies such as old erasers etc. She loves them forthe typography that it has . Lisa likes to notice the shades of pink that they each have, caused by there age , she feels that she is saving these erasers because they no longer can be used because their to old and they probably would of been thrown away anyway. This interested me how collectors can start getting addicted to what they do and start making objects such as an eraser to have so much potential in the art world.

Steve Rood's Presentation

Through out Steve's journey in the art world , I found out how a photo he had taken at the age of 10 was a compost heat. This compost heat changed his life from there , He was only 10 when he realized his joy for art was to tell stories through pictures . Steve would take photo's of looking at interactive moments . I was really interested because of the fact that he doesn't paint ,sketch or draw but to choose digital photography over anything else as his dominant skill is something that crossed my mind as soon as he told us as a class , i think digital has affected art through a whole new perspective and i think being different is sometimes the best way to success. My first thought on Steve Rood's website was that it got me interested straight away as i first played one of his mini games where you get to play with this body and torture it by using your mouse and pulling it away from the body , the sureal movement that it shows really interested me why Steve would have such a game on his website . I think maybe frustration brought him towards the idea or maybe he wanted to advertise something significant in such form that people might want to figure out for themselves in which he would have wanted . To me how the body is held occurs to me that it has to do with da vinci or war ? maybe that is how he finds advertisement by using this as a way to find something that someone thinks . The second thing I found interesting was his influences and how he progressed through his life time of research . what I know is that Steve Rood majors in both photography and design. His influences around the world made him who he is today,Which we saw evidence of names that scrolled through very fast with probably 1000's of artist He quoted in his lecture that "Everyone is an influence".