Tom Hagarty
Manifesto
We want to form a group to have interesting conversation to engage theory, share, converse and to have a dialogue with peers with similar values and interests. Through doing this we can create freedom in our own work by engaging and not limiting ourselves. We believe even the strongest idea can be developed further, commiting to and embracing its success and failure. This can be developed into more interesting work that has a deeper meaning. Ideas inform process and inturn process informs ideas. We believe in externalisation. It makes the work tangible in the sense that you’re getting it into an environment where people can interact with. This gives the work context therefore informing your practise. We don’t want to close doors on any processes. Analogue and digital are on the same playground. Noticing the potential and value of different processes, concepts, practises and there relations with each other.
With the start of the semester we got in to group we felt we would be able to get along with and use each other’s skills and thoughts. Coming up with a Manifesto to show the other students what we stood for as a group.
With a small exhibition within the studio we had to create work in are manifesto group, displaying how we worked together and reflecting are manifesto. As there were 7 of us deciding on an idea where everyone was happy. We had a group talk about are
manifesto, which I recorded on my pocket recorder with out telling anyone so I could listen back and maybe come up with an idea. But after telling everyone we decided to listen back to it and pick out the best parts and create a video for it.
Origin
The Projection
The showing of my slide projection in my house with a few friends
I scanned in all of the slides of her eyes opening and closing to make a book, which can be used as a flick book it wanted or viewed as individual pages. Printing on to tracing paper, which shows the images underneath. I made this over the Make Me Think weeks using Jack Young’s screen print as a cover, this book
was a fun experiment to try out a different paper and create the effect of when you place two slides over the top of each other. I feel photographers would enjoy this book and maybe inspire people to use slide film again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnkdZmOuj2E
Looking at the Origine of film/moving images I wanted to slow down the film so a single image would be displayed. I got some slide film to make a slow story of a girl with stunning eyes. It would look
like as if an obsessive boyfriend had taken the images and put together a memorial towards her eyes.
Owl
At the Pick Me Up show this year me and SinÊad Birmingham worked on three pieces of work each involving owls. This was Rob Ryan’s Open Studio, which ran for the whole show, where you can cut out n collage to make your own poster or
book. This was fun to put together and working with Sinead was easy and made it a lot quicker to make work to use for a book.
Make and Do
For this we worked in a group to change the magazine Make and Do using what we had around use and within the uni which is why the project was called Make and Do. Oh the irony. So we came up with the idea of changing the images to text and the
text to images by drawing on top of acetate and then placing them on top of the old magazine. This project I really enjoyed and working with Jack Young, Ben Freeman, Dan Hawes and Amy Connelly and feel I could work with them again.
Letterpress
This is a work shop I took part in, I find that the letters tell its own story giving it more life n texture. With letterpress I feel that ones typography skills and understanding improve. I wish I had more time to do more
30s video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWVmhsOO2UQ
We had the chaleng of portaying a word by film in 30 seconds, are word was Casual . After we made the 30s vid we put everthing ells we filmed together. Which i feel the longer version tells the story better and is more fun to watch.
Atheism
Nothing Moves Faster Than Scandal, this is the Atheism me and my group decided on using for are film. We were put in to groups by are skills, that we written down on to paper. This we and interesting way of working and getting people who has never worked together before. We decided on using animation to tell are atheism, using different ways of drawing but keeping it black and white drawings. Three different scandals linked together by the atheism and the only colour would be on the scandal in each story. I had the first section of the 30 seconds and I chose to show a scandalous running race where the winner was a super hero using his powers to win. I wanted to hand draw the animation so I had to look in to photographs and books by Eadweard Muybridge to see how the human form moves when running. This is the first moving animation a created and found it very fun. The only problem, which was combining the other two animations. With each of us using different styles of drawing and a few misunderstandings, but we came up with the idea of showing a word of are atheism before each animation and end. Over all I feel that as a group we worked ok but the outcome was not amazing as we didn’t want to say if something was bad and upset people feelings. This is something I have learned from and if I feel that I can help improve their work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSCNbcJS2-0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqp8QPssPgc
Paper Co
Isotype
After going to the VnA and seeing the Isotype exhibition I wanted to have a little go at some myself. The simplistic style of Isotype really inspire me and understand how humans can understand a simple shape and relate it to something ells I find
it funny how none of my peers are in July.
Lino
After doing the Isotype I wanted to create a concertina city. Where it builds up from suburbia to the city in a simplistic and quick way of working. So I decided
to use lino to meet my requirements. With its concertina the book can be read in different ways and would appeal to children in a fun and educational way.
I found lino really exiting with its rough looks and simplistic style so I got some 30x30cm lino to work on. My out comes where inspired by my everyday activities from critical studies to watching a film.
These prints were selected to go in to the Rag Factory Exhibition fellow peers put together. I am hoping to make a book over the summer time and have asked people in the 1st and 2nd years to help out.
Screen Printing
From taking drawings from “A history of ships and seafaring: Canby, C.� I collaged them together to make this screen print. There was no reason behind why I did it, the book just had some amazing images I wanted to make something with them and
this is the out come of that. I printed on to random pieces of paper that wasn’t being used; I feel that the design and old work and paper go well together. Getting the halftone right on each drawing was a good learning curve for screenprinting.
Colaberation While I was in the printing room I found a poster on light box film, a girl in a bath. The photograph was really nice and linked well with my screen print but I did not want to cover it with all of the same print so I asked some people I knew that liked to screen print to come up with a design linked to water in anyway to be printed on the poster. Getting everyone to make a design and get it all done on time was hard as other briefs where going on at the same time. I asked people round the end of February and said two weeks for an idea design, only one out of 8 met the deadline so I had to chase up the people who had not given me a design. I found asking people for a design really hard as I know everything was getting busy with uni work. So I extended the deadline to a week after are live client brief was over.
This small project I thought would only take at least a month to do took 3 months. It stressed me out to get it finished and people to print the work. Near the end I just asked for some of the people to give me their work and I my self will screenprint it. On the photographed poster the prints would all be a light blue colour and for the blank light box paper I found later on would be the design printed in its true colour. I feel the outcome is really great and I have learned that working in big groups is very hard to organise but in the end it’s worth it. These posters can be used by the uni to show skills of screenprinting on open days and new coming students.
Laura Heckford
Lance de Vries
Tom Hagarty
Justin Devon Moore
Urjuan Toosy
Jack Young
James Devereaux-Ward
Tim Harris
Ben Freeman
Screen Print:Deer
This is a small bit of work I did for a friend who wants to start up a T-shirt printing company. I found doing this enjoyable and after drawing out the dear and then vectoring the edges to give a nice crisp print. Over Easter we played around in Photoshop with placing shapes over the top of it to give it a bit more character and
playing with different gradients, but with screenprinting you cant get a 100% success on a gradient. By trying it out I feel that these colours make a one off print which can’t be reproduced making the T-shirts more collectable.
Rag Facory
In part of the Make me Think weeks there was a chance to get work in an exhibition, which was set up by two students Ruth Page and Jade Sibley, from their design investigation they looked into creative and art direction / exhibition curators and decided that’s what they want to do with their life’s. I felt this was a great opportunity to get peoples work out in to the open and gain an experience of being in an exhibition. The work they wanted was either from the Make Me Think weeks or any old work that linked well with the Make Me Think. I entered my lino cuts and photographs, one big print and lots of 6x4 prints for the photograph wall. I gave up my time to go down on Monday to help set it all up, which I’m glad I did because I have understood how hard setting up and organizing and exhibition is. Me and Jack Young put the photograph wall up together as the girls where rushed off their feet luckily there where happy with what we put up and how we laid it out. Giving enough space between each photograph and not bunching them all up
to tight, as this would make them loss their individuality. For my big photograph I didn’t want it to be behind glass as I felt the viewer would not be able to see it in full detail with all the lights around it and at different angles. When talking to Ken Garland about my work he was saying how he loved that i did not want glass in the frame and then pointed out that from where we were standing we could not see some art work because of the glass. For my Lino prints I placed them on bulldog clips as I felt a frame would make it loses its personality. On the exhibition day I got to speak with Ken Garland about my work, which was really helpful, and we shared an interest in using Matt photographic paper than using glossy. The exhibition day was a good opportunity to meet people and publicises my own work and the talent within the uni.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTnTk6OhPw0
http://vimeo.com/24222660
These two videos are documentations of the exhibition, sorting out work and having a creative brake within uni and puting the photograph wall up.
24 hr / Make me Fink
http://vimeo.com/24222848
For Make Me Think the first year and second year students were able to have the studio space for themselves for two weeks. This was ideally to display how being creative in groups or surrounded by other creative people can help benefit others in a slight protest of how boring the work areas are. With the 24-hour lock in the main purpose was to prove how having my opening times can be beneficial for students. I was in charge of taking portable printing equipment such as screenprinting tables, lino carving tools and hand presses. It was good to see how many people wanted to create a lino cut and screenprint. A lot of work was produced in that night and me James and Lance decided to use the blackboard for our work. We sketched around every body that was at the 24hour lock in and created animation. The main reason why we did this was because there was any horrible drawing on the blackboard before and had been there since I started uni, so by doing this we have created a small shrine to the 24-hour lock in.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/43392149@N06/ http://actofpardon.tumblr.com/
Evaluation
For this semester I have come to understand that by working within groups is productive and a lot can be acomplished with in a small time and is key to getting a ceare. Yet over the semester I have also expirancesd the down side of being in a group, reling on other people is one of them. I can work within a group if the other members are willing to partisate and give it a 100%. If I am goin to work in a group I would like to pick the members knowing I can relie on them can respect their judge ment and they respect mine. I myself have been in charge of a group and has come to turms of how stressful being a director could be. With the different opitunities we have got to expirance such as palying are work in the Epsom Playhouse, Getting alot more artist in this year giving workshops and talks and the Exhibition at the Rag Factory. Has given me a new light of how I can do work and get it out to the world. With my creative aprouch I have a lets try it attitude, this has helped me develop different skills as well as leaurning what im good at and not so good at. My intrest in relife printing has grown with letterpressing and lino. Also animations and movies has been part of a learning curve in how there are a lot of different ways to work with, and how it’s important for a future job. I have come at every brief with paasion, trying new skills along the way, to produce a different outcome. Some breifs I was not happy with the outcome but the how we got to the ideas and conspets i found more interesting, as some ideas in the real world get selved waiting for the right client. I am still unsure of what job I want to go to after uni but if I can get to work within a creative enviroment with creative people I am sure I would be happy. This is what learunt from the Make Me Think LAB, being around other creative people I get inpisred and see new skills.
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EXHIBITIONS AND GALLERIES Pick Me Up VnA : Yohji Yamamoto VnA : Figures & Fictions VnA : Japanesse and Chines displays Kemistry Gallery : The film posters of Saul Bass The Camp : PUCK SHOW 01