On Thursday 25th August we had Three Artist that came to the class that day to talk about what they do and what they did in Melbourne. The Three Artist names were Dion Hitchens, Bill Rile and James Ormaby. While i was listening to Dion, Bill and James talking among themselves, my mind was focus on their logo/symbol that James told us and also said something like chaos which relates to all of our work and that i still couldn't understand. (This logo/symbol/code Z=Z2+C) This is the code that got me thinking a lot! it made me frustrated and confused, I also research the code and all i got from it was a lot of mathematic equation and it still made no sense at all. They also talked about their project (SEEK) a collaborative project that they have shown at the Melbourne Art Gallery exhibition in Australia. In this show, the three Artist combined their Art work in one BIG Gallery, with Dion an Sculpture Artist, Bill an Painter Artist and James an Drawer Artist. In my point of view I think that team work is very handy because with team work you can push your ideas further and with friends around they can give you advice and help you develop that idea even further, for example "Dion said something about his art work relates to James art". The exhibition was called the BIG BLACK BOX, the reason why they called it that name is to make people think whats inside the box and to attract many audience to there exhibition. All i can say while they were sowing us there artwork in Australia it was amazing made me feel that i was their at there show. The materials they use was good, the construction of their work was good and the space they use was good as well. Inside the BIG BLACK BOX, i thought it was empty in first, but when the lectures showed us what they did inside, it was AMAZING looking at Dion sculpturing and Bill artistic skills and James ideas of developing. But most of their stuff in there art were donated by the community and little kids, and in return there stuff became part of art in the exhibition. I like the way how they have communicated with other people in the community in Australia because its good to get other people involve with Art and i like the way they think, how they didn't spend thousands of dollars on expensive stuff but instead they use what they got from the kids and the community.
James Ormsby
Bill Riley
Thanks Lio! Great to see you are catching up.
ReplyDeleteI think your response to the lecture is on the right track, enthusiastic, but remember what we said about "unhelpful" words, like "good", "amazing". This doesn't actually tell us anything about the work. Also, don't feel like you HAVE to be positive. You don't have to heap praises on the work, just say what you think. If you think it was boring or confusing, that's fine too, just explain why.
Also, it would help if you did some further research on these artists.
TX