Collaboration

I prepared and styled the food and designed the set for a piece my friend Andrea approached me about. Milkshakes, candy cakes, jellys and all sorts! Lots of fun.

Black Treacle Experiment

Andrea and I have decided to do come film work together, bringing together our performative ideas', and my use of food. We have so far done one day of filming, and are planning to re-film. Unfortunately, all I have so far is this photograph (Andrea has all the footage on her computer), but I will get the footage and stills soon and upload them. It's interesting to work with someone else, and I sort of feel it takes the pressure off a bit. The films we are making are much more 'fun' than my syrup films, and don't require as much precision and technique, so we were able to relax and just experiment with different ideas:

Collaboration with Andrea Macario

Andrea and I were in a group show together, during which some interest conversations arose about the relationship between our work, as both of us deal with similar subject matters of female objectivity. Here we have just projected our videos on top of each other, which was quite bizarre:

Stills from Second Round of filming Syrup Headshot

For the 2nd Round of filming, we did for different takes. The first 3 were unsuccessful, the syrup with going on her face too fast, or missing her head entirely. The final round of filming went brilliantly, and I think it was a good decision to scrape Jess's hair back. Here are Stills from it: 

Vintage 'Flake' Adverts

Marks and Spencer food advertising

Harry Handyside- 15 denier

A graduate of Chelsea College of Art, Graphic Design. This idea is simple, but successful.

Billboards...

I am thinking about different ways of showing my film work. Because it has strong links to advertising, I'm considering a billboard-type structure, double sided, with my videos projected onto each side. Whatever structure style I choose/design, I know I want it to be large scale. 

Molten Encased

Just a quick experiment using Liquid glucose and food dye....not quite sure where this is going now, but it looks pretty cool!

Dialogue with the Real, Private view.

On the whole, the show went reasonably smoothly, if a little rushed towards the end due to a projector bulb going half an hour before it opened. But we were all pleased with the final show and the Private View was successful. I was certainly pleased with my piece 'Glaze', which was projected onto a large Billboard-type structure, as seen in these photos. Andrea Macario's video was projected on the other side of the structure, creating a double sided screen. We chose to dim the lights in the main space, and have spotlights illuminating the other sculptures. Due to this my work became very cinematic and had more impact, and it interested me that viewers of the show seemed to talk in very hushed tones whilst watching the silent video work.
Here are a few photos of the show:

Dialogue with the Real, 19/01/12

Interim Exhibition between artists Ramona Barsalona, Henrik Heinonen, Harriet Bowden, Andrea Macario, Owen Patterson, Leana Ingram, and myself, at Wimbledon College of Art.