Yorkshire Sculpture Park...

Last week I went to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. I haven't been for a while so I was looking forward to it but wasn't particularly excited about the Juame Plensa exhbition that was on. How wrong I was. It was great and I particularly enjoyed the way he used text.

This was a metal curtain of text that you were able to walk through and touch. The metal letters clanged together. It also cast shadows of letters on the wall and floor of the gallery so you were surrounded by text. To me this was a joy!

In some pieces the text was used to create objects, which in much of the work was the human form.

I particularly like this piece. The text was punched in to metal and twisted throughout the figures. Although it is a very different technique to any I use it actually reminded me of my own sketchbook pages and the way I like to incorporate text so it is integral to the whole page, often winding through the imagery.

I'm so glad I went to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. This was definitely an exhibition worth seeing and gave me so many ideas about the future of text within my work.

Crafty Bakie...

I've been very busy this summer, not just writing assignments and working obsessively in my sketchbook but producing pieces of work for friends. My latest craft making exercise involved making a knitted Morrissey for a friend's birthday.

I really enjoyed making and packaging him and I wondered whether I could somehow incorporate this way of working in to my MA work. I like the idea of a knitted Terry Baker with salt and pepper hair (more salt than pepper.) I'm not sure he would! Perhaps I could make people and objects in my life and put them away in neat, little packages. These could be displayed as another one of my groups. This is definitely something I need to think about.

Return from Berlin...

I have neglected my reflections of late as it's the summer holidays and I've actually been in Berlin and am super inspired since my return. I've been to all the major galleries and just being in another city and seeing all the street art has got my creative juices flowing. There was one bad point to my holiday...I searched high and low for the perfect A6 sketchbook...and came home empty handed. Since completing my life changing, delicious sketchbook I'm now worried I'll never find another one that will live up to my high expectations.