Saturday 31 July 2010

Hello!

Just back from my travels (when I say travels, I only mean as far as the Lake District...but hey!), and its nice to see how far its all going. I have a little reservation about something though, its brilliant that we're investigating other venues, but maybe its an idea to see how one goes down before we make any more commitments? I guess I was thinking about how we could see what people think in September? Looking at the work we've done so far this summer and how we could go forward with it?

I think its brilliant that you guys are being so productive, contacting people, making ourselves known, I guess im just feeling the slight panic with all that's going on this summer, Uni work, travels, other projects etc. I would really like to enjoy the work I make for this one, I don't want to feel stressed by it!

I understand that if we want to put on an exhibition then all this early prep work is needed, I guess im still thinking about the work and ideas I want to explore. Part of me feels like this is becoming more about the exhibition than the work! I know we talked about this at the start, do we do our work first or organise a venue/exhibition, and I guess its still praying on my mind a bit. I had a nice chat with Lani this afternoon and we agree with bits of what im saying. I wouldn't mind hearing what other people think?

Im going to send this in an email/facebook/etc as well, as im unsure to how everyone is communicating...

anyhoo, hope you're all well. Love Amy xxx



























right, this is my project so far!
5 modroc/polystreyne dodo's.
theyre all quite small, kind of hand sized, and surprisingly heavy..
pretty rubbish pictures, but you get the idea?!
im going to decorate them all, not sure whether to do them all the same, or each one different?
also, i havent a clue how to display them, i originally thought maybe hang them? any ideas would be welcome!
so thats me updated!

pearl x
hey guys, just a thought here, reckon we should each get business cards to go next to our work? like in real exhibitions? that way if people like what they see they can take one away and stuff? i know theres lots of places you can get your own design on small cards for not too much moneys. what do you reckon?

(also i shall post some pictures of my work so far up later! )

pearl x

Wednesday 28 July 2010

updates on new venues interested

Nutmeg have literally just rung me back and said we could have the space from the Tuesday 26th of October until December the 7th 2010.

Dates Woodend is avaliable are as follows:
Oct 1st- Oct 13th
Oct 21st- Oct 29th

Jan 3rd- Jan 31st
Mar 1st- Mar 31st

Let me know your thoughts by next week. x x

another venue interested

Hello everyone

Two places in Scarborough are interested. A Cafe called Nutmeg, which is lovely, it is vegetarian/vegan and supports local artwork. All the food is locally sourced or organic and home made and the owners are lovely, and they know me. They said we could exhibit for six weeks starting at the beginning of November, but we have to let her know in two weeks if we are interested. Otherwise we will have to exhibit later in the year.


The other place is a really good space called Woodend Creative space in Scarbororugh. It's a lovely building, a sandstone Edwardian type building amongst overgrown gardens and next to the main art gallery. It used to be a musuem and i I think it still has taxidermy in the basement. When I was little I used to go there are there were hundreds of birds you could walk around.
Anyway they described our proposal as 'fascinating' and are really interested. We could exhibit as early as October, for as long as two weeks or more or for as little as one evening. It's £20 per evening, so four one evening it would be less that £2 each. It would be worth getting it for longer though. If we did decide to do this then we could do bag packing in Sainsburies in Fallowfield or something to raise money. Or do something else sponsored?


Tell me what you think asap as I need to contact the back soon.

Love Freyia x x

Tuesday 27 July 2010

test shots for ruth's dream



Hello. Me again. I played around with the props I made today with Hayley Hobden, who is an amazing photographer. She let me borrow her camera. Unfortunatly I am not as pleased with the results as I thought I would. I am going to try doing them again, getting someone to help hold a torch behind the curtain like a moon. I want to try taking the pictures later in the day also so the backdrop goes that funny bluish twilighty colour in the original picture I took of it.

I am also thinking I may take a few pictures and display them by scatter hanging. I want to get some film for my polaroid and experiment taking pictures with that next time as well. Or when I can get some money!

Let me know what you think. I think I may get Hayley to actually take the pictures next time as I am not that brilliant at actually composing and taking photos. I have an idea in my head which I can style okay, but when it comes to capturing it I am rubbish!


I love the photographs on the Vintage Wedding Dress Company website, and those taken by India Hobson. I love how pale and washed out they look, but still glamourous and otherworldly. I feel my pictures look a bit amateurish. Like the photographs you see at Foundation Art exhibitions!

I need some help and opinions.
x x


































































i have us a potential venue who are really interested

Dear everyone.

Woodend Creative space in my home town of Scarborough are really interested in the exhibition. It is £20 per night to hire their space. They said we could have the space for as little as one day and a night if we like. They have spaces as early as October.


Let me know what you think x x

Monday 26 July 2010

new film order

Now we have a new boy in the group, Mr Jason Wiley, we have had to jig the order of the video a bit. He's before Lani and after Ruth.

The details are on the fb group x x

starry starry night!


Hello.
Just a quick post to update you with my personal project and to get feedback.
So far I have created a backdrop of star sequins sewn into constellations on an old bedsheet backdrop. Here it is in all it's shabby £3.99 budget glory! The second image I took without flash, and I really like the colouring/effect created. I love how the light reflects on the sequins.






Sunday 25 July 2010

exhibition proposal

Dear my beautiful collective of amazingly talented artists and friends,

Thanks to Lani's wonderful help, and my finalising, the proposal is almost ready. I still need statements from Ruth and new boy Jason. If you can't get me them today I could always just put a note in the email to Nexus, saying that there are two other artists involved who were unable to submit statements. I think personally it would look more professional if we had everything done though. Let me know. Today preferrably.

I will send the statement individually to all of you to your emails and fbs to make sure you have it. I would really appriciate comments on the layout, presentation etc. I thought having an artist per page and the layout I have done makes it easier to read and more accesible that it was before, but Lani wasn't sure. Any suggestions would be fabulous.

Also if you notice errors in your own or other's statements please let me know asap.

I want this sent off the Nexus by tommorrow so if you can, make this a priority.

Other business.... I have been thinking about the idea of a launch party, and I think it would be a great way to promote our event and have fun! We could be really creative with it. I have friends who are musical, both singer-songwriters and beat producers who are more than willing to perform. I think it would be a great way for us to promote each other and get our work, whatever creative medium, out there. Let me know what you think. Bella said the Corner offer their venue for stuff like this? I think that would be the perfect place.

Also, thoughts on money. I don't know about you but I am poor! And any money we could get from this would benefit us greatly. I'm thinking a donation box at the event, and putting prices on our work, giving out business cards etc. Cake stalls there, bringing along small crafts to sell. I want to make a few books of my short story and embroider the covers and sell them if time permits. Any profit we make as a team we could split? Let me know what you think about that.

One last thing, sorry for this essay-like post, I have just realised, if we do get Nexus, some of us will be away on Erasmus in Budapest, Bergen and Venice when it opens. I don't know about you but I'd like to be there for the opening and to help curate. I think we should look for other venues as well. I'm up for this show to show at as many venues as possible.


Anyway. I will get on it sending you all PDFs of the proposal. Please get back to me asap

Love
Freyia
x x

Friday 23 July 2010

Cold bath


Hello everyone, I’m Jason… kind of jumping in late here I know. Cold bath.
I am really happy to join in with the project, it sounds very interesting! I had a few pieces I was developing since leaving Uni at Leeds but hadn’t had the opportunity to exhibit them - I’m hoping this could be a good time. I live in smog land London now but I’m looking forward to heading north again to help out. I have a few Video pieces you could check out if you like, pretty DIY anti CGI – Its ‘Play’ I am choosing to put forward for the show! Thanks. Jason.

i'm having moon problems

hello. i need an artistic second opinion. please flood me with your comments. basically, as ive said before i am recreating ruth's childhood ambition of playing around on the moon as an astronaut. today i have been embroidering star sequins all over a white backdrop of an old bedsheet. i have cut out silver stars from high shine paper. i will mess around layering these.

my problem is how to deal with the moon! my orginal idea was to construct a 3d moon and cover it in silver glitter, place it in front of a chair and have ruth sit on the chair, giving the impression she is sat on the glittery moon! much like the old moon souvenir photo below. however, i didn't really think what i would make this moon out of? i can't seem to find any card that is big enough and the construction would be too weak out of normal card anyway. carboard from a cardboard box is too small.

however i saw this picture (top below) recently by mmu photography graduate india hobson, and thought the use of shining a light from behind the model gave the impression of a moon. i am thinking of doing this instead? shining a light from behind the backdrop behind ruth's head so it appears like a halo/moon.

what do you think? plus not constructing a moon puts less pressure on me to make more things.





















let me know your thoughts
freyia x

Thursday 22 July 2010

new member and changed to video order

hey there. hope everyone got my email about jason, my friend from home. lani and bella have no issue with him exhibiting with us and joining in the film (slotted in before lani) can i please have everyones okay or opinions asap?
heres a link to jasons blog...

http://http://selectedworkjasonwiley.blogspot.com/

also a message for the beautiful bethan lumb...would you like to still do the video? we can slot you in also before lani finishes?
xx

Friday 16 July 2010

my project

okaaay. so due to incredibly bad financial situation on my end, and therefore no time due to trying to sort out hours to work etc, i am only going to be able to do one photograph for my project. i have decided to use ruth's dream, sorry pearl, as i have already started to make things for it.
as i have no money i am unable to go to brighton and london (missing working with kirstie mcleod which i am gutted about, as well as seeing ruth =[ ) so i will have to take the actual photos during the first week or so of term.
lani has the proposals. i am absolutely snowed in with stuff to do and in a bit of a panic atm so if she hasnt read my message on fb....please lani will you edit and send to nexus?
hope everyones work is going well. x x

Saturday 3 July 2010

hi guys, i was thinking of ideas for my own consequences project, and i was thinking maybe something to do with evolution, might draw some dinosaurs.. maybe make some dinosaurs.. etc. as a starting point does that sound alright?!

Thursday 1 July 2010

it's only a paper moon

okay so i have ideas for my personal response and i wanted to put them out there and see what you think, as it may be too ambitious.

basically, after looking at your questionairre answers, i thought ruth and pearls answers kind of fitted the aesthetic i had in mind for the shoots. so firstly are you guys okay to do it? i figured two shoots would be managable instead of trying to do everyones.

my plan is to make the elements of set/costume here at home, and play around with lighting. my friend orly is a film and media student and she's gonna help with lighting and hopefully by my test model. i will post the photos of trials and that on here so you can give me feedback.

my ideas for the shoots are as follows...

ruth responded to the question saying she wanted to be an astronaut/astronomer, and invisaged herself jumping around the moon in a cool outfit. i intend to get an old white bedsheet and bondaweb some silver stars onto it, cut out silver car stars also which will hang from the ceiling like in old cheesy american proms. i want to make a big paper moon and cover it is silver glitter and attach it to a swing somehow so ruth can sit on the moon like in old moon souvenir pics. think a more handmade version of the florence and the machine video for 'you got the love' crossed with old seaside fancy dress studio photos. i intend to pull together a very dressing up box costume using a fishbowl or something as a helmet.

pearls response was that she wanted to be a ballet dancer. i am really inspired by the film the red shoes. and intend to make a shoot which is similar to the ballet in it. i want to buy some red velvet curtains from charity and drape them like a stage. i want to draw a theatre surround onto card or something maybe, and make a large tutu from some antique wedding veils ive collected for pearl to wear. i want to make a feather headdress too, and maybe some red slippers from silk or something if i have time.

i will post some visuals so you have an idea of the look of the shoot after this post. i want the light to be very pale, and the colour palette to be kind of ghostly, dreamlike and diffused. i want the photos to look staged and playful, but also soft, ethereal and oddly disturbing but beautiful.

ideas? feedback? please help!

love to all and enjoy the sunshine
freyia x x