Jim Lambie

Jim Lambie's work was amazing!!!!! I loved it!! His use of recycled material and bright colours and mirrors is what kept me thinking about fantasy - fairy tales - fairies - Alice in wonderland. All are associated with bright colours of course. Mainly directed at children. Works that have innocence. However Lambie managed to take this and turn it into an adult Gallery Work. An exhibition full of colour and weired but wonderful things created in every step as you walk around the exhibition.

http://students.ou.edu/A/Kateri.M.Arnaud-1/alice%20in%20wonderland%20wallpaper3_0(intro).jpg

G.I Exhibition photo's - Installation

G.I Exhibition

I went to see several G.I events. Only two however I stopped to think that they do in fact relate to my research. The lighting effects in the first work made me question, Does light play a part in my work?? and, Could light be a factor? Or, What about reflection? Could I invent reflection in some way and incorporate it into my work??

Jim Shore has many other fairytale based works including Alice in Wonderland.

Small mythical creatures

So I love fairies. I don't know why... I just know I do. As far as I know, fairies were first made real to the public in 1917 with the famous story of the Cottingley fairies. They were exploited by the mother and aunty to little girls, Elsie and Frances. The girls claimed that they captured images of real life fairies at the bottom of the garden with their father and uncle' camera. Elsie and Frances persisted that the photo's were genuine, even Sir Arthur Conan Doyle took an interest in the girls and their fascinating story. In 1981 however, Elsie and Frances by then old aged women, confessed!!! They confessed that the photo's were fake! This I believe was a confession of force. They claimed that they made most of the fairies from paper cut-outs and hat pins. However insisted that they had in fact seen real life fairies and that one of the photographs were genuinely real.

I have a huge collection of ornamental fairies. Some of those being - Tinkerbell. One Tinkerbell I have, is, hand whittled by an artist called Jim Shore.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42750000/jpg/_42750721_fakefairy203.jpg

Whittling

Whittling is a challenging technique. It is also very therapeutic. What I aim to do is, whittle for practice pencils and or sticks. I have so far whittled pencils and at times has proved difficult if stripped to hard.

Artists I have been looking at which I find fascinating are Willard Wiligan, Chen Fenxian and various other uknowen artists who have created extremely small scale sculptures.

Material

http://www.paperonweb.com/Images/HWTree.gif

OK so, I would like to create a Sculptural work made from wood. Preferably from a tree trunk or thick tree branch, but, it has to be a soft wood tree as I like soft wooden trees rather than hardwood. They are easier to work with and have a nice colour to them. I want to make something large in scale. Something towering and interactive. I feel my techniques can definatly be expanded and improved so I would like to use the crafts of carving and whittling. The work should also be installed into gallery space. Trees are normally outdoor based so changing the context would be a good idea.