Turner Contemporary
In response to Katie Patersons exhibition 'A place that exists only in Moonlight' the student union gave an opportunity for students to hold a workshop. Myself and Sohpie Wing are interested in light and the experimental process of using light sensitive mediums.
From the meeting at turner, I was captured from the patterns found in the room (perforated wall) and the angular walls.
Lumen printing- This was my idea for the workshop as it uses the natural light to create the images and in response to the exhibition and patterns found from the turner, we created stencils for the lumen and cyanotypes. As Sophie main medium is cyanotype, she wanted to create a demonstration workshop to show the audience of the process. For health and safety we pre made the images at uni with our stencils and exposed them, then Sophie washed the images for the audience to see the development.
We played with various textures and shapes - mainly spherical shapes in response to Katie Patersons show. Used sand and plastic to created interesting textures.
From realising the event will be in the evening - meaning no sun light to expose, we did some experiments with torch light, to see if still get a good effect.
With the event being held as night we also had to adapt by using torch light to develop the lumen prints rather than using natural sunlight. Also with there being no fixer solution, it meant the images will forever be changing and this added to the concept of time.
Played with the idea of hole punches - In the show there is a piece called '100 Billion Suns'(photo far right) which is confetti scattered all around the floor.
The stencils block the light leaving it light and the where the light hit turned blue (as it was artificial it turned the paper blue).
I enjoyed interacting with the audience and seeing there reaction to understanding the process. How audiences engage with the work is becoming a real factor.
Saturday Club - Lorrain Mailer MA student
Her use of materials (tape and tracing paper) the translucent materiality and ability to construct with tapes and the idea of 'husks' opened my eyes to thinking about materials. I enjoyed the simplicity of the material tape and how it comes in many forms and can be used to construct, gather information and project through.
I enjoyed the inclusiveness of this workshop and how people responded to it in there own way. My piece is the middle photo, responding to materials around me, using the chair as a frame work and highlighting the shadows created from the chair by sticking translucent tape on the shadows.
The last image show the projected image from the tape onto the ceiling.
In the Herbert Read, a foundation student has used the framing of the windows to suspend her work. this has got me thinking about placement.
