Frankie's Blog

 PREPERATION TASK For the preparation task I remade John Everett Millais' Mariana, I was inspired to remake a pre raphaelite painting as they are so beautiful and inspired mostly by nature which I thought would be easy to modernise by turning it more urban. I found this painting and related to her stance as my desk chair is VERY uncomfortable and after working I need to stretch a lot. So I remade her as an illustrator instead of a tapestry worker and changed the scenery and outfits to fit more into todays age. GROUP WORK! INSTAGRAM-  https://www.instagram.com/thehokeyfolkycollective/ I formed my group with Izzy Xena and Molly, we have previously worked together on the visual essay module last year so I knew that we would make a great team!  ^ Initial ideas and notes from our first collective "meeting". We decided on recreating the Cottingley Fairies Hoax as our artefact at this stage we didn't quite know where to take it- we just knew that our aims would to be to make...

ZANDRA RHODES: A LIFE IN PRINT   I visited the exhibition Zandra Rhodes: A Life in Print at the Holburne Museum, the venue is situated in Bath and majority of the rooms are dedicated to the art collection of Sir William Holburne, but it also hosts an array of temporary more modern exhibitions in its purpose built spaces. As the venue is a big museum it has a whole curatorial office who selects the majority of work to be displayed, however for this specific exhibition they worked with Curator Rosemary Harden who specialises in dress curation and previously managed the Fashion museum in Bath.   The Zandra Rhodes exhibition was presented on the 1st floor in quite a wide room, it was easy to know that we were in the right location because at the entrance of the building they had a mural of this exhibition, with an interactive QR code that you could scan for a snap chat filter, I thought that this was effective as a way of promoting it as visitors can share their experience online....

WORD AND IMAGE SUMMER WORK For our summer work and introduction to the module we were to pick a pice of prose and make a 'soundscape' influenced by it and then finally use that to create some abstract artworks. I chose the poem The Goose and The Common which is an English orally transmitted poem from the 18th century by an unknown author. I first read it in Suzanne Collin's Sunrise on the Reaping and thought that the repetition, rhyme and theme would inspire me. It's themes being that of social injustice caused by the rich taking land/privatisation of land. I only focused on a few lines of the poem to not overcomplicate it: " The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common But leaves the greater villain loose Who steals the common from the goose. The law demands that we atone When we take things we do not own But leaves the lords and ladies fine Who take things that are yours and mine." I do think my soundscape matches the atmosphere...