Central Saint Martins - My Foundation Year

Central Saint Martins - My Foundation Year 

Im only going to do one blog entry about my entire foundation course at Central Saint Martins showing you only a few pieces of work that i experimented on and what i ended up focusing on. 

I decided to do a foundation year because i truly didn't know which area of art i wanted to pursue in, i mean i liked all the areas. Product Design, Architecture, Landscape design and Fine Art. 

As the course went on i steered towards Fine art, however i didn't steer towards one principle, i worked with all the principles involved in fine art. 

Just one example of a sculpture i made, i was working and merging domestic products and fusing them together to create something out of the ordinary, in this piece i wanted to see how people would react to this product, Would they still carry it like a beer or use the handle? 

Sculpture:

I also did some photography, in this piece i was inspired by the controlling affects of colour, the colours came from a traffic light but the idea of this was: do the colours make you think a certain way about a photograph? 

The subjects within each photograph are rather random, but the focus is on the colours. 

What does red make you think, yellow? blueish green?

Every individual colour makes you think of something, an emotions a meaning

Below i try to further prove that point 

Do these seem right to you? Thats the point. 

A few drawings:

Lined drawings

I also experimented with technology and media.

What i did in this series of work was use technology to text someone a question. I would then receive a response. 

This question was "Would you ever kill someone?"

"What would you do if there was no internet tomorrow? How would you react?"

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"What gets you out of bed in the morning?" 

"What is missing from your life?"

"What was the worst thing that happened in your life?"

Before this foundation course i was painting, this year i tried to stay away from painting. I wanted to explore all other aspects of art therefore i barely painted. 

As i progressed, i ended up doing something i found really fulfilling. It was installation. 

My main medium was masking tape, coloured making tape. and my number was 4. In a sense i was trying to create a painting on the site i was in using coloured masking tape. 

Abstract, Painting, Installation site specific. 

This was my first test piece. 

I believe this piece was with red insulation tape.

It is a very precise process, everything has to be measured and spot on. 

Cutting the masking tape needs to be done with a sharp knife for a crisp edge. 

What i like about this is that it creates space in space. The wall is a big empty space, but in that space is a whole other dimension of space. 

This is what i was going for. 

More installations: 

More:

  

One more: 

This i photoshopped, I wanted you to understand what i was aiming for, space inside space. 

and for my Finale piece i used the exhibiting space for our final year show and worked in the site provided to us. 

First to inspect the site, see what I'm working with/on.

Checking to see if the masking tape sticks nicely, incase i need to sand down the walls..

Doing some repair work. 

Getting started 

Working onto the window too, part of the site 

Crisp edges 

Precise measurements 

And here it is, this was new for me, one of my very first times doing an installation piece, took me out of my comfort zone which was great. Here goes the end of my Foundation Diploma at Central Saint Martins, London, UK.