artist research | sculpture and fashion/Textiles

Yinka Shonibare brings his cultural heritage into his works. He utilises sculptural skills with his Nigerian heritage of clothing and bright colours to create strong symbols of colonialism.

As part of my approach to my chosen electives through Sculpture and Fashion I draw a strong sense of cultural identity through Irelands history of colonialism and our own much sought after hand made textiles both historically and currently. He explores the effect of slavery on his culture which is another link between Africa and Ireland.

Guest Lecture --Sculpture and Combined Media

Ellen-Rose Wallace is an Irish visual artist working with moving image, sound installation and sculpture. She is currently GlogauAIR Berlin’s Online Artist In Residence, and has been selected as a member of the Douglas Hyde Student Forum 2023 and a graduate of LSAD.

Some images taken at Ellens lecture today in Clare st.

Eric Mesple | sculpture elective

One of Mesplé’s latest pieces, titled Killing Time, features sleek, masterfully crafted metalwork integrated with sensors that react to human presence. As the viewer approaches, their attendance sets in motion an eerie series of events. A deep black ferrofluid—a liquid that’s strongly magnetized when around a magnetic field—produces breath-like motions into the mouth of a polished skull. The surreal kinetic sculpture is mesmerizing in how it both consumes the special liquid and the geometric design that's created as the ferrofluid travels from the glass vessel to the head.---mymodernmet

As part of my research on water/fluidity/flow/changes that occur when water is tampered with, I take inspiration from Eric Mesple whom creates movement from touch with materials that we may not consider so fluid such as metal. But like water, metal changes form and recreates itself over and over.

Visiting Lecture / Artist Research /sculpture

Freida makes sculptural work that explores temporality, material and encounter. She pays close attention to the inherent character of materials and works with them in an intuitive manner, moving between the methodical (a sense of time in making) and the direct presentation of matter as it is, or just minimally influenced.

Informed by contemporary thinking on materiality, she is interested in the point of contact or adhesion between materials - the degree to which they are anchored or integrated into each other, and the transfer or exchange between the grafted materials. In this emphasis on the moment and place of adjoining, boundaries become central, and there is often a quiet suggestion of precariousness or peril.

Freida graduated from Sculpture & Combined Media in LSAD in 2020.

This morning we had a visiting lecture from a recent graduate of LSAD/TUS talking about her practice. It was encouraging that her practice is based on finding balance within the intuitive process of her exploration of her materials and her final work.

A big take away lesson for me today as a first year is about how I can move forward in my own exploration in terms of 'play' which is part of the balance in following your intuition regardless of the inherent pressure that deadlines can create.

As I finish my second week in the the Fashion Elective I wanted to explore how I could combine textiles with ceramics and find a 'thread' to create it as a sculptural form representing the movement of water and bringing my 3 electives together.

I worked with rolling two ceramic pieces with the initial idea to re-create a style of lamp by somehow inter weaving textiles into these two pieces.

Designing still in progress.