Year 11 Magazine | 2022

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ESSENINE

LAURA LUCY RAFFI SANTI ALMA MAEVE LOLA BELLA JOSIE NANCY JACOB ANNA BERE EDDY ISABELLA JACOB JASPER LUCA MAYAN MICHAEL MILLIE MILOU ROO

ESSENINE

My work explores the ideas of distortion through portraits and how far I can distort a portrait with it still looking recognisable. I took inspiration from artist Julie Cockburn who cuts out sections of portraits and replaced the hollow area with another substance.

LAURA

My work explores the theme of preservation of nature and decays. I expressed these ideas through taking items of nature like flowers and orange peel, that would normally decay, and preserving them into ice sculptures where they are transfixed between life and death. This was inspired by Damien Hurst, who preserved a shark in a tank of formaldehyde. I then went on to create new ice sculptures using the idea of melting ice glaciers, and letting the ice sculptures melt onto inky paper to illustrate the catastrophic effects of climate change. This technique and link was inspired by Olafur Elliason, and Andy Goldsworthy.

LUCY

Within my work, I was trying to communicate the idea of duality within yourself that comes with growing as a person. With age we start to hide parts of ourselves that we sometimes see as not welcome, thus leading to playing the part of a false identity, your true self transformed and overshadowed by facades and masks you have gradually put up over time. Two artists who inspired me were Julie Cockburn and Michael Landy who both explored the recurring theme of duplexity with the contrast of old and new, to reflect that thin yet obstinate line between your facades and who you truly are.

RAFFIE

I was inspired throughout my GCSE about the stability of nature and how humans can affect that. In these two photos and QR code I think I present these ideas in varied ways. Firstly, the bird representing animals. Secondly the modified tree representing the adaptations which both humans and nature do. And thirdly the video of decay occurring within manmade objects.

SANTI

My work is inspired by the monolithic structures photographed by Jane and Louise Wilson as well as abandoned Soviet era architecture. It is supposed to convey the impermanence of man-made structures and how they can become abstracted and lost to time.

ALMA

I wanted to convey both a satirical image of female identity and social commentary on misogyny through my final piece, utilizing objects and Spanish words as my medium.

The etchings I made of traditionally “feminine” objects were simple presentations of what could be interpreted as souvenirs/tools acquired throughout a woman’s life. The photographs are a catalogue of a “woman” in the most extreme, stereotypical sense as a few present women as vapid and unintelligent, and others use objects as storytelling opportunities but leave the story to the viewer’s interpretation. The words all have feminine pronouns and connections to female identity through gender roles.

Cindy Sherman and Jonathas de Andrade were the two artists I emulated. Sherman frequently explores female identity through her photographic self-portraits which I reflected in my own photographs. Jonathas de Andrade used language in his photographic collection “Education for Adults” which inspired me to incorporate Spanish words in my work.

I considered making a collection of etchings to recreate Walaed Beshdy’s work but changed my mind as I found photography more interesting.

I would discard the etchings in my final outcome but I would keep the photographs as I’m more confident in them.

MAEVE

I have been interested in exploring the dependency fragile and industrial materials have on each other and the way they imitate the reliance of existence that masculinity has on femininity (and vice versa). I was influenced mainly by Eva Hesse and her work with textiles and Leigh De Vries and her work with anatomical sculpture. I have particularly been drawn to the fluctuating debility of plaster and mod rock in relation to the ideas of gendered material construction. In this final piece I wanted to explore vulnerability through the destruction of heavy material, exposed to reveal the fragile.

LOLA

Throughout the GCSE course I was really interested in themes of time and place as well as social injustice in said time and place. I looked at artists such as Yinka Shonibare who creates art centred around African culture and lives in the colonial era as well as Cindy Sherman who looks at the different ways women are portrayed in the media. Towards the end of my project I became interested with the post-war era and women’s roles as housewives in this era. I enjoyed creating lots of satire works surrounding these themes and exploring the nostalgia that often overshadows the social injustice of this time period.

BELLA

Throughout the process of my work, I followed my sub theme of distortion with my main focus being distortion within the body. Within my work I attempted to communicate ideas of how body parts may be seen as objects despite being such important aspects of life. I mostly wrapped objects such as mannequins or body parts to distort their original shape therefore allowing people to be in a position where they have space to form their own views on what has been made and what it originally was rather than being influenced by society’s views on factors such as what the norm on bodies should be. The artists that inspired me through the process of my project were Jenny Saville and Christo and Jeanne Claude. My work of wrapping was inspired by Christo and Jeanne Claudes acts of wrapping objects while my ideas on distortion within the body came mainly from Jenny Saville’s largescale paintings of the body.

JOSIE

NANCY

My main project was centred around the idea of ancestral identity and memories. I decided to display these concepts through a museum curationstyle piece: depicting the whole life of a man on one board through photos and found objects, leaving the viewer to create their own narrative of his life through the objects that make a person a person. The piece featured fictional couple James and Ethel Hunt and their experience with World War 2, based loosely off the life of my great grandfather (who’s portrait is used for James). I was interested in seeing how much of a story you can tell in few words, and how individuals would differ in their own assumptions and interpretations.

When initially considering the idea of ‘memories’, I found myself reflecting on how our memories shape us and, though perhaps are no longer prevalent practically in our lives, they (often unbeknownst to us) are constantly present in everything we do and are. The moths, fragile and transient but also symbolic of transformation, were representative of the past and the mark it leaves on the person.

ALICIA

To demonstrate all the work over the course I represented pictures with; the final outcomes of my final pieces (for both topics of order disorder and transformations), sustained drawings and artist responses. Personally, I liked to look at the deeper meanings behind simple things and make them stand out, especially with the use of dissimilar materials. I included a variety of elements throughout my two years of art GCSE as I did not want to focus on my outcome, yet I wanted to focus on how my ideas developed throughout the course. As I look back on my pieces, I have come to realise that I am intrigued by the simplicity of a drawing, such as, my repetition of one-line drawings. However, I develop these ideas further along as I include overlapping and distortion. Regarding my final piece of transformations, I wanted to really develop my ideas outside the box of simplicity. This led to carrying out my movement film where I recorded (with a go pro) every second of the day during the two-day art exam. Additionally, documenting it as an experiment towards each practical revolving around my ‘stick.’

ANNA

BERE

My project began with a lot of drawing studies. I was interested in abstracting nature and drawing from strange angles to see how I could make everyday things more interesting. Over the course of my project, this led to the concept of solitude. I was inspired by figures at first and carried out a variety of nature-themed photo shoots that explored this idea. My final piece on solitude was a small oil painting. I composed it in a way that suggested it was from the point of view of someone spying.

EDDY

These images are from the final piece of the first project I did which was titled “Order and Disorder.” My final piece was about memories and how they change. I used two card boards and printed black and white, inverted images of the street I grew up in onto them. I then projected old home videos onto the boards. I selected videos that included my family and core memories. For me, this project was very therapeutic and satisfying to make as I got to relive all the times I had forgotten as I got older. This piece had my favourite outcome.

I then continued onto the next project: “Transformation” which fit well with the last project as I got explore identity and self-image. I’ve always been interested in what people are thinking and these projects have allowed me to investigate and understand that.

ISABELLA

JACOB

My most recent work investigates the boundary of the 2d and 3d of scribbles and how the different dimensions transform the final piece. The other work displayed is the process and experimentation leading up to this.

However the multiple face drawing is from my final piece last year and through photoshop of a variety of pictures I took. This piece explores the order and disorder everyone has in them.

JASPER

LUCA

My work investigates the idea of animal human hybrids. My main aim when creating my work is to express an abomination of nature that coveys the idea of someone having emotional dysregulation in a purely negative aspect. By doing this I tend to make my characters give expressions of their animal side yet with human features such as body structure to show how within every human being there’s always a messy, beastly and animalistic side included. I usually never made my characters have any site of positivity in them just to show how mental health can reflect on your appearance inside followed by the outside.

MAYAN

In year 10 (order disorder), my work explored ‘family archives’, and ideas surrounding memory, identity, and permanence. For my final piece I created 4 pieces of work using various techniques, inspired by artists I had previously researched. They were all made using photos found in family photo books. We all have an eternal bond with family members, and I considered this whilst making these artworks.

I then hung up my artworks in picture frames, in attempt to capture the nostalgic, familiar, and personal feeling of family photos found around homes. There is a permanence to them being encased in the frames, as they are unchanging and constant.

MICHAEL

For this book I am focusing on my second project, the prompt being transformations. I thought about this physically. This led me to looking at artists such as Yeesookyung, who explore the Japanese art of kintsugi, which is repairing ceramics with gold. I also looked at Tatiane Freitas who repaired wooden furniture with translucent acrylic. With this I started to develop my sub theme which I chose as “restoration”. I found these works interesting as whilst restoring the objects, they also emphasise the broken aspect of them, allowing us to see there memories. For my final piece I used a similar technique to Tatiane Freitas, taking models of a banister to recreate a staircase. This was also influenced by Do Ho Suh, who creates suspended fabric installations of staircases, giving me the idea of transitional space.

MILLIE

A constant inspiration has been the phsycology behind art and the phsycology of the artist. Throughout this course I have experiment with different medium such as painting , tapestry , clay and photography in order to learn how different mediums can express a different thought. the recent project transformation I looked Into transitional objects which was very interesting as it was a whole new topic to explore and to look at how to express this theme into my work.

MILOU

My first book was much more personal than my second, i looked into the virtual world and how that effects how i see myself. This similar idea links to Orlan’s work. She is famous for her performance art which consists of her doing live surgeries on herself, her main idea is reinventing herself to change perceptions of beauty. James turtles work explores very different morals and instead explores digital art using light generated by computers creating hypnotic and subtle light changes. This led on to my response of using light and colour.

ROO

Over the past few years I’ve enjoyed creating art with themes of identity and distortion. I have researched artists such as David Hockney and Shirley baker which have inspired me to create work that’s personal to me.