Mal ‘Maser’ Hester Protesting Against the 8th Amendment Maser is a Dublin-based artist who was very vocal through his art about his views on repealing the 8th amendment. He quickly became considered a game-changer in the Irish art scene through his brightly coloured and minimalistic…
‘The Knotted Gun’ By Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd (1985) This sculpture, also known as ‘Non-Violence’, can be found in New York, and was created in memory of John Lennon to be seen as a symbol of world peace. It has been used and still is today…
For this task I had to pick an inanimate object and write a paragraph from it’s perspective for the rest of my group to guess which I really enjoyed doing. I sit in the same spot for most of the day, surrounded by about thirty…
After my brainstorming, I decided that these two monograms were the best as my initials were still clear and they looked professional. I drew them out bigger and made sure the thickness of the black line was the same the whole way round. I then…
When we were first introduced to this part of the workshop, I didn’t know what monograms were until we were shown examples. At the beginning I thought my initials would be difficult to find a composition which worked well together while also looking sleek and…
I picked my first blind portrait to create with the wire as I felt it was the best spaced drawing. I was excited to try this out as I hadn’t heard of creating a continuous line piece with wire before. Getting started was the most…
This part of the workshop really intrigued me as I had never done anything like it before. As we were online, we created self portraits by using a mirror. I was expecting it to take a few drawings until I figure out what the best…
As part of our online class we were paired off and had to produce a portrait of that person. I created this portrait of Anna using watercolour for the shapes in the background and then pro markers for the detail. I wanted to create a…
Whenever we were told about this part of the task, I felt the best material for me to use would be branches and twigs joined with twine. However, I struggled keeping the twine tight enough so that the structure would hold, so I resorted to…
Once I had finally managed to get all the pieces stitched together and the roof added, I thought keeping with the aesthetic I was going for, I found images of the exterior of different house from magazines. Overall, I am pleased with the final outcome…