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Practical work - Contemporary art

I started experimenting with my contemporary art unit, I wanted to use Sarah Lucas as a source of inspiration. I started thinking about her themes in her work and i really liked how her work is so suggestive. I started by looking at using food to suggest sexual themes... 


















I really liked these images of my fingers in milk and decided to go back to them ... I used Instagram layout to split the images and i really like the results.




I then started looking at her sculptors, i saw that one of the tags on them was assemblage sculptor. I read that is was basically a 3D collage, in class i decided in a few hours what could i gather and make as a small 3D collage...




I then decided to look back at Rachael whiteread.

i liked her use of negative space so i decided to start pressing clay against small objects i could find in my house and get the negative space imprint.



 

I wanted to use foam to take casts of negative space but because of money reasons i had to use what i could find in my house.



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  1. Siobhan O' Hehir22 May 2018 at 07:32

    Hmm like these pieces Cat, think they definitely are working!! How can fruit be so explicit?!

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