Warhol is an American artist who is famous for his works from the 1960s till 1987. He invented new ways of image-making, vastly expanding what was considered fine art. Becoming a cultivator Of the pop art movement and arguably becoming one of the most recognisable artists globally. Becoming an icon himself through the notoriety of …
Category archives: Contextual
Julia Hadji-Stylianou – Artist Talk
A lot of Julia’s work focuses on making Connexions between identity, sense of self and places and location. Being both half British half Greek Cypriot and Julia spent a lot of her life travelling and residing between both England and Cyprus which has allowed her to draw a lot of significance to her photographic practice …
Honey Williams – Artist Talk
From Saint Anne’s in Nottingham black-dominated area of Nottingham known as the ‘ghetto’ and ‘Shottingham’ Honey was from a Jamaican family mum and dad both Jamaicans and her dad lived in Manchester in Moss Side notorious ghetto in the 80s and 90s. Honey started getting into the music industry around university working with Ronnie size …
Banksy
Banksy is the most notorious Street artist in the world with pieces going well into the millions very little is known about Banksy and he is which is part of the attraction to the work. what we do know is that you started painting in Bristol organising one of the UK’s first paint jams with …
Art of the street – a new context
Street art is an early art movement which evolved out of 1970s subway graffiti art becoming a global art movement Appearing in most cities graffiti and street art have found their way into everyday culture. The three cities I’ve covered in my research of Bristol Liverpool and Manchester. Taking interest in how the city’s landscape …
Vanguard
The vanguard exhibition at M shed shows the growth of the street art from the early 1980s to the present day primarily focused on Bristol as this was one of the first UK cities to accept graffiti culture. Covering early graffiti writers such as 3D, Inkie, Nick Walker as well as many others. What I …
Urban – Peterborough Museum
The work here shown at the Peterborough museum was on loan from John Bandler’s gallery meaning that most of the works were for sale which gave an interesting perspective of where the art market is going in reference to art from the street. Banksy’s most expensive work is shown at 2,000,000. I notice how through …
Martha Cooper
Subway Art Subway Art is a collaborative book by Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant, which documents the early history of New York City’s graffiti movement. Originally published in 1984, the book has been described as a “landmark photographic history”. Known by many as ‘the bible’ of graffiti, Subway Art quickly acquired the dubious accolade of …
Solarisation
I really enjoyed these images that Man Ray created within his darkroom practice after seeing these I learned that the process is called solarisation and from that, I went to the darkroom to experiment and understand the process for myself. This is an image of the setup I had in the darkroom so I was …
Printmaking
Making Positives for Photo Screenprinting and Photo Etching in Adobe Photoshop Open your digitized source images in Photoshop. File>Open or Command-O Navigate to desired files, select and click Open Create a new document. File>New or Command-N Name your document: Surname_ScreenPositive or Surname_EtchPositive In the Preset dropdown menu, choose Custom In the Size dropdown menu, choose …