Tara Donnovan

One of my favourite artist Tara Donovan, uses everyday, mundane materials to create the most amazing, meticulous sculptures that imitate natural formations.

For example in the piece below 'Bluffs' she has glued together thousands of regular white plastic buttons to create a structure that resembles a coral reef. 

Bluffs, 2005, buttons & glue, Ace Gallery Los Angeles 

Detail of Bluffs, 2005, buttons & glue, Ace Gallery Los Angeles

I admire artists like her so much. To take a basic, mundane material that everyone is familiar with, like a plastic button, and turn it into something amazing I think shows real creativity and talent. Not many people would look at a plastic button and think that you potentially use it in this way to create this astonishing sculpture. 

Sweet thing

I worked with sugar a lot in 1st year, melting it down and experimenting with casting with it, and dripping it over objects. This was my final resolved piece, melted sugar poured through a grate which was attached to the wall. I'm interested mainly in the texture of this caramel, and it's ability to almost defy gravity and hold it's liquid forms as a solid. The grate was about 3 metres high off the floor, and some of the golden droplets stretched right down till they almost touched the floor, and dried in that place.

View from below the grate

Collected sugar dripped onto the ground

TIE DYE PARTY

TYE DYE 21ST HOUSE PARTY FOR MY FRIEND AND HOUSE MATE JESS! We decided to make ours costumes from scratch, buying white fabric and dyeing/sewing it ourselves. Forgot how GREAT tie dye is!..the brighter the better! Also with left over dye you can dye/marble paper or card as well which is great for making cards and stuff...
This could look cool on a massive scale too...something to think about in the future, as I do think it is interesting and exciting when you unravel this tiny parcel of material to reveal this psychedelic pattern! I'm sure you could do something cool with that...interactive maybe..?  


This is the video we roughly followed, but basically we just free styled it: