The Alcazabar was my favourite location of the day last time and it didn't disappoint on a second visit! It is a most beautiful place - I love all that moorish styling and with a new found mode of 'useful drawing' I had a great day!
Here are my 'surface patterns' from the day:
And a more painterly psychedelic study:
There was an exhibition by Subodh Gupta: The Imaginary Order of things at the Contemporary Art Gallery which was excellent. My favourite pieces from the show ticked the texture box that I have been collecting:
The window holes invited you into another world:
There were other sculptures playing with mirrors/concealment:
The 'combine' sculptures were my most favourite:
Along with the simplistic vessel forms:
The composition
And the layering
I mean look at it - wow!
That's some more details to add to my list then...hanging, fixing, rope and thread
We discussed relief painting in ceramics during the tutorial and ideas behind installation. I think this is the area I want to explore with my work. Although I would like to try lots of other materials, I can save some of that for later. Having enjoyed working with ceramics over the past few years I would like to challenge my current uses of it and perhaps incorporate more drawing... a good day though, on lots of levels, it's off to the sugar factory tomorrow - yippee!
