Week 17 - Sculpture Workshop (CAST). Cement Casting.

carldurban

Feb 22, 20202 min read

Week 17 - Sculpture Workshop (CAST). Cement Casting.

After experimenting with clay, sand, plaster and then aluminium it was now time to see how casting concrete could work. As with the...

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Drawing Workshop - Un-familiar / De-familiar

carldurban

Feb 12, 20203 min read

Drawing Workshop - Un-familiar / De-familiar

'Draw with anything, on anything, in ways that interrupt your normal sensory or bodily relationships to the materials and processes.'...

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PLAY WITH ME II - Collaboration (3 Bodies, 1 Body, No Body)

carldurban

Feb 12, 20202 min read

PLAY WITH ME II - Collaboration (3 Bodies, 1 Body, No Body)

A 'Call Out' was made by 2nd Year Students and after not an awful lot of discussion, Jo Dunlop, Sally Brighten and myself decided to sign...

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Week 16 - Sculpture Workshop (CAST). Aluminium Casting.

carldurban

Feb 3, 20203 min read

Week 16 - Sculpture Workshop (CAST). Aluminium Casting.

This was ultimately what we were always working to. A cast in aluminium of one of our creations. The learning of the process, or...

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Week 15 - No Sculpture Workshop this week. So more hands and gloves.

carldurban

Jan 30, 20202 min read

Week 15 - No Sculpture Workshop this week. So more hands and gloves.

A gap in the timetable for the one-to-one tutorials means it is time to catch up on everything else and make things independently. I had...

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Week 14 - Sculpture Workshop (CAST) More moulds, more experiments

carldurban

Jan 25, 20203 min read

Week 14 - Sculpture Workshop (CAST) More moulds, more experiments

After the first week of getting to grips with casting plaster it was time to see how we could take things on and experiment further,...

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carldurban

Jan 24, 20202 min read

More Casting - Developing ideas

Having enjoyed the process and results of creating plaster casts from clay moulds I decided to see if I could develop some further...

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Week 13 - Sculpture Workshop (CAST) taking shape

carldurban

Jan 15, 20203 min read

Week 13 - Sculpture Workshop (CAST) taking shape

Doing something that potentially makes you feel uncomfortable is the best way to learn. Why do what you know? You will never explore new...

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Week 12 - Back to Uni. BA1b begins - Limboland

carldurban

Dec 8, 20195 min read

Week 12 - Back to Uni. BA1b begins - Limboland

Good to be back. Strange to be back. After two weeks of Independent study and waiting to see what the tutors have thought about my work,...

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carldurban

Nov 15, 20192 min read

Image 2 - Revisited

I was never happy with my first attempt at painting for this workshop. I chose two very difficult images to try and replicate once...

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carldurban

Nov 15, 20192 min read

COPY - Screen printing induction

When something unique becomes a copy or several copies how can it still have the same value or aura? 15 separate, individual images or...

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Thermal imagery - Interesting and intriguing

carldurban

Nov 15, 20191 min read

Thermal imagery - Interesting and intriguing

I have no idea where I am going with this idea. Yet. One to distill and see what comes to mind. The images intrigue me and pose strange...

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Drawing Workshop - Collaboration & Collective

carldurban

Nov 14, 20193 min read

Drawing Workshop - Collaboration & Collective

Just the sort of thing I really enjoy. My mind goes into overdrive at the possibilities of what I can do when given this sort of brief....

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carldurban

Nov 12, 20192 min read

Object 2 - Making the unknown

The definition of an object is: 'Something material that may be perceived by the senses' We discussed the formal properties of objects...

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carldurban

Nov 2, 20193 min read

Intervening

I have previously created some small interventions while I was attending sessions at The Sainsbury Centre. Although these were quite...

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carldurban

Oct 30, 20193 min read

Initial thoughts and Mind Map

After just a week or so into Year One we were asked to put together a Mind Map of what we were looking to explore. Early days, early...

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carldurban

Oct 28, 20193 min read

Time to turn to 3D

The thought of a 3D induction session doesn't sound that invigorating or inspiring but the possibilities that it has opened up are...

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carldurban

Oct 28, 20192 min read

Drawing Workshop - 16 images

Take a large piece a of paper and divide into 16 spaces. Create a non-figurative image in the first space and react to it in the second...

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carldurban

Oct 27, 20193 min read

Edit (Adobe Premiership Pro)

Embracing technology time. Take two simple, mundane pieces of footage and see what happens when you start to play with them, chop them...

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carldurban

Oct 27, 20192 min read

Painting Workshop

A workshop in two parts. A. Acrylic painting on primed board from image on folded paper. B. Acrylic painting on stretched from second...

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