Jo Docherty

Material World, ‘The Receipt Is In The Bag’ (Final piece). 2017, November 20th. 

I decided to make a bag out of card and receipt because I had never made a bag before and I had a lot of receipts. The receipts were symbolic to consumerism, which was something we needed to include in our work. 

I think the piece turned out well considering that it’s my first attempt at making a bag, it’s well structured and it can hold things. Visually- I think it looks nice.

I could’ve used better adhesive to stick the receipts down with and something more discrete for the strap. I also had to use Blu-Tac as a clasp to keep the top down.

I looked at Katerina Kampari’s work for the way its supposed to make the audience feel. The image above is from a collection called ‘The Uncomfortable’. She takes everyday items and alters them so they’re quite useless. I like the idea of this and I also like the emotional response it triggers. Personally these pieces make me quite angry whereas others have said they’re confused by the pieces. (Source)

I looked at Amir Noor’s work which is mostly statements about consumerism and spending money. Lots of his work uses receipts like i plan to in my final piece. He often prints onto receipts and takes pictures of them. A lot of his work is quite vulgar and brash which I like about his work. (Source)

As a class we looked at Alan Fletcher’s A Technological Graveyard, we looked at it for the story with it. “Alan was in the art department of a famous publishing company and asked to borrow a pencil. No-one could find one. He eventually found one in the editorial department.” This shows the change of what materials we use in workplaces now, with most work being digital. This inspired our Pencil Graveyard piece. (Source)

Material World 2017, November 13th. 

Material World, Teabag Necklace.  2017, November 13th. 

Material World. 2017, November 13th. 

Material World 2017, November 13th. 

Material World. 2017, November 13th. 

Recording The City, Rainy Walk.  2017, November 16th. 

My final video for Recording The City.

I used the rain and walking for the audio in the video because weather is a big part of Manchesters personality and Manchester is full of people who are rushing to be somewhere and commuters. 

The project was initially supposed to be pictures from around Manchester city centre however I ended up not going when the rest of the class did and every time I went in my free time it wasn’t a good time to take pictures, it was either rush hour, raining or not pretty due to the construction of the Christmas Markets, I don’t think either show the spirit of Manchester so I stuck with the pictures I took in Salford.

Recording The City 2017, November 9th.

This project had much less needed to research, it was mostly practical work. 

Time & Space.  2017, October 23rd.  This is the first draft of my Time & Space piece that I presented to my classmates. The idea behind this piece is that I spend a lot of time playing League of Legends. I happened to have a huge amount of highlight clips from my past 20 games. Some games were with my university team, some were with friends and some were by myself. 

In class, we looked at 12 artists, 6 who work with time and 6 who work with space. In my own time I looked at a few pieces by some of the artists that caught my attention. 

I looked at James Turrell’s Skyspaces. James makes huge sculptures which play with light and perspective. I specifically looked at a piece which is in York Sculpture Park. The piece is The Deer Shelter, it opened in 2007 and is still open to the public. (Sources: x x)

I also looked at Andy Goldsworthy’s environmental art. He creates pieces out of natural objects he finds and he makes them out in the open. The piece above was created in Bracken, Cumbria in 1982. I find concept of going outside and creating something with the materials around you really interesting. (Source)

I looked at Dominic Wilcox’s watch sculptures which are quite fascinating, he creates sculptures on watch hands and the watches still function. Above is a piece called Hide N Seek which was created in 2011. (Source)

Time & Space 2017, October 19th.

In pairs we had to take 24 images to represent 24 hours of the day. (Part 3 of 3) 

Time & Space 2017, October 19th.

In pairs we had to take 24 images to represent 24 hours of the day. (Part 2 of 3)