week 6 / 7 blog

                                                 Fran Allison

1,  Joker brooch,  $580,  oxidised silver, miniature card, bottle caps

2,  Club brooch,  $580,  oxidised silver, miniature card
3,  Diamond brooch,  $580,  oxidised silver, miniature card, found jewellery

The first brooch that Fran Allison have made is a Joker brooch made with oxidised sliver , miniature card and bottle caps. And her second brooch is a Club brooch made with oxidised silver and miniature as well her third brooch is a Diamond brooch made with oxidised silver , miniature card and found jewellery. What I like her work how she made her brooch with playing cards and metal and bottle caps is really interesting to look at. I really like how she use the bottle cap and turn it to a little flower and cut out a metal make the red bottle cap to stand out more. The other thing I like about her Joker brooch is how she also have that flower on the outside of her brooch it's a clever idea to make it look like a flower brooch. But I don't know what the idea to her work on the second one maybe just a random idea to cut out and paste it onto the play card but it's in interesting looking brooch as well. Her third brooch the Diamond brooch is amazing I like that jewellery that she have found and use as her brooch. 

                                                 
                                                       Sharon Fitness

Jiggle Wiggle Wobble Bounce

Sharon Fitness
8th September – 3rd October 2009
Inform Contemporary Jewellery, Christchurch


Sharon Fitness “My practice evolves around play, fun and random happenings. I work with silicone because it offers the flexibility, changeability and tactility I need to produce playful wobbly wearable beings. These brooches have a life of their own, often prompting the wearer to jiggle wiggle wobble and bounce along with them. They attract smiles and encourage interaction with others”.

Sharon Fitness brooch is called Jiggle Wiggle Wobble Bounce it looks like she made it with rubber or plastic not quite sure. But I like how she made a brooch that's actually playful and fun to wear with when you jumping up and down it bounces or if you running or power walking. Her brooch reminds me of the Poppy flower and how it's sitting on the grass makes it more like a flower so interesting brooch. 

Blog task Week 5

Mark Vaarwerk 



 The plastic bags are either hand spun with a drop spindle to make necklaces, or fused with heat to make rings or brooches. In the case of plastic bottles (generally polyethylene bottles - for example milk and shampoo bottles, tomato sauce bottles, some yoghurt containers, etc) I have fused to make rings, brooches and bracelets. To make a ring i would cut the bottle into strips the width I would like the ring to be and then wind it firmly around a metal rod the same diameter I would like the inside of the ring to be. Aluminum foil is then wrapped around it to hold the layers in place and it is gently heated through in a kiln. once it cools again the aluminum foil is removed, the plastic is tapped off the rod and trimmed into shape and finally the surface is sanded and polished to make it shiny.



We think this is so very true - A big part of the supercycling ethos is one of re-self-empowerment (sorry that is such a clumsy made up word - but it does the job) The notion of having someone else deal with our mess/rubbish/waste has become so natural to us that we think that it is someone else's problem to solve. But it's our own, and we only really need to do a little to help the situation - being mindful of our own waste and what we are doing with it is actually easy - there is no rule against taking these matters into our own hands, though not all of us will do it so eloquently and with such wit as Mark does.

homework part 2, 2010

some of the additional new work presented at gaffa gallery, sydney

bracelet green 94mm
materials: expanded polystyrene food box, colouring 
pencil


brooch pink 64mm
materials: expanded polystyrene food box, acrylic car
light covers, printer ink, stainless steel, sterling
silver

brooch beige 49mm

materials: expanded polystyrene food box, cellulose 
acetate tortiseshell rayban wayfarer frames,
stainless steel, sterling silver

brooch beige 49mm

materials: expanded polystyrene food box, cellulose acetate tortiseshell rayban wayfarer frames,stainless steel, sterling silver

pendant yellow 54mm
materials: expanded polystyrene food box, acrylic car
head-light cover, printer ink

Blog task week 4

                                               New Zealand jeweller 
                                 RUTH BAIRD 

                                                                       Beech

NECKLACES, PENDANTS, BROOCHES, AND EARRINGS BASED ON THE NZ RED LEAF

Pendants: 35mm long x 23mm wide.
Earrings: 30mm long x 20mm wide.

Necklaces, pendants, brooches, and earrings are based on the native 
New Zealand tree, which grows in the south of the South Island.This evergreen tree sheds a few leaves from time to time, and whenI'm tramping I can be walking over paths carpeted in these leaves.
coloured, textured and riveted onto a sterling silver backing.
They are available in three basic colours: deep blue,
paler blue-gold, and pinky-gold.
I gather on a beach in the very south of the South Island. Around
the back is a silver crochet band .
Pendants are hung on 30in sterling silver chain.
Earring earwires are sterling silver.

The coloured metal is titanium or niobium, which is shaped,

Necklaces use beech leaf shapes and are combined with pebbles.

MARK VAARWERK

                                     
                                                      MARK VAARWERK 

Rings (shampoo series)
materials: plastic shampoo and
conditioner bottles, sterling silver.

Mark Vaarwerk questions the notions of value and Discuss preciousness in jewellery, which is traditionally associated with expensive and rare materials. The ongoing concern in his practice is the transformation of everyday throwaway plastics, such as plastic bags, plastic bottles, Styrofoam or expanded polystyrene, into materials for jewellery making. It can be difficult to guess the origin of his materials simply by looking at the works. They incorporate plastic from diverse sources such as pens, vacuum cleaner casing, white-out correction fluid, cigarette filters, remote control casings and car light covers. 


Mark Vaarwerk I really like the way he makes his jewellery's with recycle objects like plastics, such as plastic bags, plastic bottles pens, vacuum cleaner casing, white-out correction fluid, cigarette filters, remote control casings and car light. It's so interesting seeing a jewellery made from recycle plastics it's really creative and also a clever idea making your own jewellery's with plastic than using other things like gold/metal. I't was good to see some of the people helping him to give the recycle plastics and asking him what he needs from his next jewellery that he needs with his design. What I was a bit surprise when he use one of the cigarettes filters to make a plastic jewellery brooch it's amazing that he use trash from the streets and turn them into a amazing jewellery.

This brooch is called Wella Whirl, and as the name suggests is made from the Wella Balsam plastic shampoo bottle. Once you know this it is possible to recall the bottle as you have seen it on the supermarket or pharmacy shelf, the colours the only evidence of it's former life - but just how Mark got it to look this swirly way is a beautiful mystery.

Blog task week 3

Egyptian jewellery         

Egyptian Jewelry Collection by Egypt7000
The ‘Key of Life’ sign or Ankh, as it was referred to by the Ancient Egyptians, was a symbol of eternal life. This was often passed down from the gods to the King

The Key of Life with 2 Winged size is approximately 1" x1"

18K Gold Key of Life with Two Winged, Egyptian Gold Jewelry - Egypt 7000

The materials they use to make this beautiful Jewellery two Winged, Egyptian is Gold.
What I can see with this Egyptian is Gold is a key and two wings. My opinion about this Egyptian Gold is a key to heaven or a key with angels wings to make you feel protected and safe from evil spirits from hurting you also curse you. The symbols I see is A key with two wings. 


                                                 

                                                  SAMOAN JEWELLERY  

Earrings: Tau Taliga..These are made from coconut shell, green coconut shell, paua and oyster shells, bone or boars' teeth. They come in many different shapes such as breadfruit leaves, hooks, turtles, teardrops, or hibiscus. They can be further embellished with decoration. For this paint can be used, or sennit which is the thread made from the coconut fibre.

Bracelets/Bangles: Tau Lima .. These are made from the shell of a coconut, ususally mature coconuts which give them a dark colour. They come in all different shapes and sizes with various designs and patterns. They can be decorated with green coconut shell or tapa.

Necklaces: UlaThere are numerous kinds of necklaces made from bone, dried black plant seeds (used like beads) and green coconut from which pendants can be carved. Their shapes range from axes, geckos, Samoan fales (houses), coconuts or wild boar teeth. Ula Nifo (a necklace made from bone) is usually worn by the taupo (chief's daughter) during dance festivals and 

JEWELLERY

                                                                     WEEK 2

SAMOAN ULA NIFO

'Ula (necklaces) were made from a variety of natural products that included fresh leaves, scented flowers, fruit, seeds, shells and whales' teeth. Most are still commonly used today. Threaded together in various combinations, 'ula are worn for festive occasions and give as gifts to arriving or departing guests.

The whale-tooth necklace is the most valued of Samoan necklaces and is traditionally worn only by chiefs and their offspring. Anciently, the 'ula lei (ula nifo) were a symbol of status and wealth. Made from the teeth of the sperm whale, they were split and ground down into curved and pointed pendants. From there, they were smoothed and polished, threaded onto a cord and worn around the neck.

These replicas, originally made from whales' teeth, are now made from bone pieces, white plastic and threaded onto a nylon line. A modern adaption includes dark soap seeds in between the the long bone pieces.

Necklace is approximately 18". 

Bone pieces vary in length ranging from 2 1/2" to 3".

Jewellery

WEEK 2

                                                               
                                                     Ancient Egyptian Jewellery


I found this Ancient Egyptian Jewellery from http://www.myjewelrybox.com/articles/jewelrythroughtime/ found it from searching Egyptian Jewellery on google images.The first signs of jewelry date back to Africa over 75,000 years ago. Jewelry has been used for power, protection, worship, status, and beauty, and continues to carry its very particular meanings throughout various cultures. Jewellery is more than just a decorative fashion item; it has held a distinctive and valuable place in the evolution of cultures and societies throughout human history, providing insight into the political, sociological and psychological elements of the times. Pretty impressive, right? Just say that to the next person who tries to criticize you for wearing too much jewellery. 





Early Traces Of Jewelry

When the Cro-Magnons migrated from the Middle East and settled into Europe, they made necklaces and bracelets out of bones, teeth and stone, which hung from animal sinew. As decorative trophies from a triumphant hunt, primitive jewelry was worn to recount stories: a means of communication. Carved bone was also worn at this time, however this was purely for practical use, in order to hold clothing together. 

The Ancient Egyptians were the first to establish jewelry-making as a profession. Egypt was a class-based society and Egyptians were divided according to wealth and profession. Jewelry makers were considered middle class and were highly regarded for their skills, though they worked long hours and lived mainly in poor communities. 

Jewelry symbolized power and religious dominance and was believed to have magical properties, which protected Egyptian men and women from evil spirits, especially in the afterlife. When an Egyptian died, they would be buried with all their earthly possessions.

All social classes would wear amulets for protection, though the lower classes would wear ones made of cheap materials like clay.

Gold was the favorite metal of the pharaohs as it was considered the skin of the gods. The color of jewelry was also very significant. For instance, green jewelry meant new growth for crops and fertility. Notably, Cleopatra’s favorite gem was the emerald.  

Introduction to screen printing

                                       

Andy Warhol

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

For the song by David Bowie, see Andy Warhol (song).

Andy Warhol (August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture and advertisement that flourished by the 1960s. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became a renowned and sometimes controversial artist. The Andy Warhol Museum in his native city, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, holds an extensive permanent collection of art and archives. It is the largest museum in the United States dedicated to a single artist.

Warhol's art encompassed many forms of media, including hand drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, silk screening, sculpture, film, and music. He was also a pioneer in computer-generated art using Amiga computers that were introduced in 1984, two years before his death. He founded Interview Magazine and was the author of numerous books, including The Philosophy of Andy Warhol and Popism: The Warhol Sixties. He is also notable as a gay man who lived openly as such before the gay liberation movement. His studio, The Factory, was a famous gathering place that brought together distinguished intellectuals, drag queens, playwrights, Bohemian street people, Hollywood celebrities, and wealthy patrons.

Warhol has been the subject of numerous retrospective exhibitions, books, and feature and documentary films. He coined the widely used expression "15 minutes of fame". Many of his creations are very collectible and highly valuable. The highest price ever paid for a Warhol painting is US$100 million for a 1963 canvas titled Eight Elvises. The private transaction was reported in a 2009 article in The Economist, which described Warhol as the "bellwether of the art market".^[1] Warhol's works include some of the most expensive paintings ever sold.

Marilyn Monroe 

Andy Warhol what i love about his work it's exciting to look at it's delightful. I also painted a artwork of one of his paintings Marilyn Monroe. It wasn't that easy to paint but i'm still practising to learn more techniques to paint. It's interesting how his paintings are about food products and pop stars. My favourite artwork of his will be Marilyn Monroe because how it's captivating and how she's famous. I also love her quotes my favourite quote of her's will be “We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.” .. The reason why this is my favourite quote of her's because it sometimes help's me when i'm having panic attacks , anxiety problems it's a really hard thing to go through. Andy Warhol paintings are very pleasing i like how he works with different bright colours something different from all artist. Sometime's i sit and wonder how does he do his artwork does he paint it or screen print or hand draw? So I searched Andy Warhol's artwork his art encompassed many forms of media, including hand drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, silk screening, sculpture, film, and music. He was also a pioneer in computer-generated art using amiga computers were introduced in 1984, two years after his death. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture and advertisement that flourished by the 1960s. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became a renowned and sometimes controversial artist.

Introduction to screen printing

                 

                                     Emma Mclellan

The concepts of the grotesque and hybridisation have always piqued human interest. From the mythical gryphon - with its leonine torso mated to the wings and head of an eagle - to science fiction fantasies of android life, the fascination with otherworldly creations runs a darker thread through the annals of human life. As expected, these musings lend themselves to representation in cultural media and we can track a certain history of art - from Hieronymus Bosch through medieval bestiary to Patricia Piccinini - that comments on our fascination with the weird and ungodly. Viewed from this perspective, Emma McLellan's work is a contemporary interpretation of an age-old fascination.

McLellan attended Auckland University's Elam School of Fine Arts, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts majoring in Printmaking in 1993, before continuing on to compete a Masters of Fine Arts in Painting in 2001. The result of her affinity for these dual disciplines is a natural combination of the two that allows her to build multiple layers of colour, pattern and image, all the while seeking to conceal and reveal different elements of the composition. McLellan combines her fascination with the grotesque, the weird and the hybrid (drawn from an interest in the engraving techniques that produced works of medieval bestiary) and her love of the pattern, repetition and texture of antique fabrics and wallpapers to create a gallery of animalia laid out as if it were as innocuous a thing as a repeating wallpaper motif.

The effect of McLellan's approach to the repetition of curiosities is to generate a "second-glance" interest, whereby the sumptuousness of pattern draws the viewer into a closer examination of subject matter. It is here that McLellan's work begins to draw allusions on one level to print metaphors (replica, edition, copy) and at a deeper level to the concept of mutation and its introduction of newness, difference and diversity into a genetic pool - a concept that is often viewed in a negative light and which has lead to the pejorative connotations of the term 'mutant'. It is this idea of difference that is both societally unacceptable yet culturally fascinating and McLellan holds up her grotesque and hybridised animals for inspection in the same manner as one would inspect a museum oddity.

McLellan lives and works in Auckland. She lectures in printmaking and is currently the Programme Leader for the Bachelor of Visual Arts degree at Auckland University's Manukau School of Visual Arts. McLellan's work has been exhibited as far afield as France, Canada, Spain and Bulgaria and she continues to produce work from her Auckland studio.

Ex famillia muris II 

                                          Acrylic & screenprint on board , 500mm x 500mm 

Counting your chickens before 

                                         Screenprint & acrylic on board , 900mm x 900mm 

Emma Mclellan artwork is so exquisite it's captivating I was so surprise once I saw her artwork on the slideshow that she showed to our class made me focus more about screen print. I love the background it's enthralling i really like the vintage patterns . It's really creative using the animals and adding a different looking wings onto the chickens. I find her artwork really interesting you can see it in books and animation movie's. The counting your chickens before screen print is enticing the way she fade's the chicken on the screen print. Her screen print makes me want to learn more about screen print also learn more technique with screen printing. It's really clever of her repeating the patterns and the chickens onto the screen print it makes it so interesting to look at it also showing us it's telling a story behind this artwork. It's interesting how screen prints works my first time doing screen prints was in intermediate screen printings on bags also clothes but we didn't learn that much techniques about screen prints here in M.I.T that's why i love M.I.T you learn so much things about art and enjoy designing and seeing other students works give's you more idea's. 

Manipulating the image

Manipulating the image 

Francis Pesamino 

FACE TO FACE / KANOHI KI TE KANOHI / FA'AFESAGA'I (Frankfurt Book Fair 2012)

Francis Pesamino is a Samoan artist who grew up in New Zealand. He graduated fromManukau Institute of Technology in 2011 and recently exhibited at Mangere Arts Center in South Auckland.This is his first exhibition in Europe.

In his work Pesamino places a powerful focus on the significance of his own cultural identity. He uses hand-drawn typography to paint portraits of prominent Samoan and New Zealand community leaders and sport personalities. On closer inspection, his graphic style highlights the contradictory character traits, inner and outer compulsions and sensibilities of those represented – they are quite literally written in their faces.

Pesamino’s complex pen-and-ink drawings are exhibited alongside historical artefacts from the Weltkulturen Museum’s Polynesian collection. All of these items make reference to the subject of tattooing, just as Pesamino’s portraits also evoke associations with the form and content of this Polynesian body art. Elaborate patterns imprinted onto the skin are legible signs of a person’s descent and of their social and family status. The tattoos that adorn the faces of Maori men in New Zealand are especially striking. This style of ornamentation, like the typography in Pesamino’s portraits, follows the natural contours of the face. The most popular tattoo patterns of groups from other Pacific islands cover the human body so completely and fluidly that they almost look like writing on the skin. One particularly outstanding example is the ornamentation found in body tattoos from the Marquesas Islands, which with its strict angular shapes, reads like a text written in upper-case letters.

Francis Pesamino writes:
“I think of my drawings as a representation not only of things within Samoan culture and its people, but also the outside perspectives of how Samoan culture is perceived in the Modern World, whether it be through stereotypes, and recognisable high-profile Samoans portrayed through the media, all of which inform the way Samoan people identify themselves. My drawings are presented in a manner that articulates my position of in-betweenness.
The way in which I want people to view my work is through visual story telling. It is up to the viewer to not only decipher who the people depicted in the drawings are, but also through reading the constructed words, they are able to create a narrative of that person, as well as of the way they are being portrayed. This in turn influences the way Samoan people are viewed, both inside and outside of the culture.”

Curated by Dr. Eva Raabe, Research Curator, Weltkulturen Museum.

Kindly supported by the Government of New Zealand through the Cultural Diplomacy International Fund.

What we have been doing is looking for magazines looking for image to trace. We used the tracing paper to the outline of the image then writing lettering's one the image. So what I have done is finding a image from the magazine and I have found one from the fashion magazine and once i went half way drawing the image of my first work i didn't start to like it all because i just didn't like the way it turn out it just looked weird that i haven't draw her eyes properly. Then i moved on to my next one finding a another image from the same magazine and i just finish of working from it and it turn out ok it wasn't that as the first drawing. It wasn't easy at all being creating finding words to go with the image.    

Manipulating the image

                                                 Manipulating the image 
                                             (WEEK 4)

On week 4 we were been working on designing magazines so we were told to design a magazine with our own picture's not other famous images so i used this image of my uncle because it means a lot to me this day i was practicing using my new LCD camera taking photo's of my father & uncle playing golf this was the last time i get to play golf before he passed away this year. I'm so glad that I took my camera with me while at the time so much memories. 

So here's a my magazine that I have deigned. I used Photoshop to work on my deigned. I actually enjoy designing this magazine it was fun. We have told to designed a magazine of any topic like Food, Fashion or sports etc.. And i have chosen this image because it came into my mind when I've herd we have to design a magazine so i work on sports magazine a Golf magazine. I started on looking for what to write on my magazine also the front. So i came up with 101 top tips , Add some pro. Then adding another image down the bottom on the magazine and finishing it of with a barcode from the internet. 

Screen printings

                                               Screen printings 

                                                                   WEEK 7  

On the 10/06/13 we been working on our screen printings. We started of from drawing or working on photoshop to design our poster. Then we went to the printing room to clean our stencil board also putting on a coat of paint onto a board and took it into a dark room for it to dry. After we waited we moved on working with our design before we go back to the printing room. So we started using the big machine that vacums and print our artwork onto the board. It was interesting seeing how the machine works. Now i just need to start on printing of my poster. I didn't really enjoy cleaning the stencil board it took time washing the paint off. 

Favourite artist (TERM 2-WEEK 3)

                         ASKEW ONE 

THUNDERCLAP HEADACHE

Acrylic, spray paint, enamel, vinyl paint and waterborne glaze.
2500 mm x 1900 mm
['Smoke Signals' Solo Exhibition, Australis House, Auckland (NZ).] 2012
$18,000

DISPLACED PAKEHA BASTARD

Pumice gel, acrylic and cel vinyl on canvas.
1200 mm x 900 mm
2011
NFS

DIAMONDISM

Limited edition digital print.
18" x 24"
2011

End of print run.                           

BETTER NEVER STOPS Poster

Auckland Blues Rugby mural commission.
Auckland (NZ)
2013

TMD's " Miami Dream " Art Exhibition

LOST ISLAND LOST ANGELS

LA Freewalls Project
Los Angeles (USA)
2011

                                   

HELP STUCK ON THIS CRAZY ISLAND

Auckland (NZ)
2011

Askew One (Elliot O’Donnell) is a multi-disciplinary artist mostly renowned for his graffiti art paintings. Widely regarded as one of the New Zealand graffiti scene’s driving forces he has managed to remain at the forefront of the movement (both in New Zealand and throughout the world) whilst working tirelessly behind the scenes in a diverse array of projects.

With an abundance of achievements and experiences over 21 years in the graffiti scene which include a guest artist invite to Primary Flight - Art Basel Miami and taking out two consecutive ‘Write 4 Gold’ world titles as part of TMD crew (who remain undefeated), Askew is also versed in graphic design, illustration, photography, publishing, music and moving image. A self-taught, self-sufficient one-man army with no formal art qualifications behind him, Askew is an artist schooled by life itself.

Showing in March 2012, Smoke Signals is Askew’s biggest solo exhibition yet. A comeback after 5 years of struggling to identify a true style of canvas painting that best represents himself and his experiences as an outdoor artist, but within a confined indoor space. Said to be triggered by a ‘stroke-like’ event he experienced in 2011 called Call Fleming Syndrome, this newly found style was discovered five months later out of frustration whilst painting on a particular canvas at an art residency program (Fountainhead Residency, Miami), the moment captured on video.

A perfect blend of bold illustrative line work influenced by comic-books, the graphic power of the letter and his cynical yet patriotic slogans, with a mature taste of abstraction and finishing, these new paintings deal with his identity in New Zealand context but more specifically from the perspective of someone that grew up through the 80s and 90s. He cites the Americanisation of local culture during that era and growing up inner city as informing his aesthetic and creative direction. Four generations Kiwi but a mixed bag of European descent, Askew's Smoke Signals show discusses the cultural displacement of all the people living on this isolated island at the bottom of the Pacific ocean.

Askew One (Elliot O’Donnell)

What I love about Askew One is that he's so creative. I really look up to Askew One how he self-taught him self one-man army with no formal art qualifications behind him and he is an artist schooled by life itself. I was so happy that he invited my family and I to his SMOKE SIGNALS & THE MIAMI DREAM exhibitions i found it really interesting watching people looking at his artwork and talking about his artworks that how amazing talented he was. THE MIAMI DREAM EXHIBITION was my first time being at a exhibition i didn't know what i will expect to be like it was on Thursday 21st October 2010 at shed 6 Upper Deck 90 Wellesley st. It was so interesting seeing famous Kiwi Bands and Musicians there also. That's the other reason why i look up to Askew One (Elliot O'Donnell) because how he work so hard and having his own exhibition. I also love how he painted my grandma's shop in Samoa it really means a lot to my family I.  

 SAMOA                

 2013                 

 FASITO'OTAI SHOP