Kerrie Jane Stritton

I chose to look at Kerrie Jane Stritton because alot of her work focuses on physical boundaries, such as this painting with the dark hostile looking wall. I will also look into using gritty urban landscapes in parts of my work. Below is a quick painting i did in the style of kerrie jane stritton...

Rezi Lankveld

Im not quite sure exactly how Rezi Lankveld creates these incredibly fluid oil paintings, but what i do know is that i like them. I will be doing a few drawings that will just give an impression of the subject.

Barnaby Furnas

I was looking through a book on contemporary art and i found Barnaby Furnas's work. It was particularly eye catching the bright clashing colour combined with the sometimes gruesome subject matter is hard to ignore. I felt his work relevant to mine in that it is very expressive loose and colour full which is my basic criteria for this project. The last of these images is a particular favorite of mine. The effect of people exploding and disintegrating is very likely to feature in my final piece.

Micheal Andrews.

Unfortunately this is the best quality photo i could find of his series of paintings entitled "Good and Bad at Games". The Title refers to the social games that people play at social events, the people fade or grow through out the night. I really like these paintings because they are very odd. They also seem to capture something of an uneasy party atmosphere. i chose to look at these paintings as they are a study of social boundaries and dynamics which is another facet of my project.

Juan Munoz

The sculptor Juan Munoz was another good starting point for my research. A lot of his work looks at physical limits (or boundary's). Things like the Weebles, the figures with no legs just a round sack, look horribly stuck and trapped by their own bodies. At the same time they look like some kind of toy, kind of fun and comical.

Mark Walinger was one of the first artists i looked at for this project because of his piece "State Briton". I felt this was relevant to my starting point of boundary's. State Briton is about the exclusion zone outside parliament within which no unauthorized protest may take place. Mark Wallinger recreated a protest that was set up within this area in 2005, the recreation was set up in the Tate just outside the boundary of this zone. This work is interesting to me as it looks at a non existent, boundary that is very real in terms of effect.

Heath Robinson.

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Heath robinson creates these really interesting Illustrations/designs about complicated machines that often do mundane tasks. I thought i should look at his work as i was considering using gifs to do a moving machine similar to Heath Robinson's machines. Much of his work was a satirical comment on the new modern style that was emerging in Brittan in the 1920's.

I love the ragged look of the balloon and the man in this illustration, im not sure what this piece is about (probably a satirical piece.

Jean Jullien

I like the use of speech bubbles that ask questions about the event. The interplay between bubble and answer is more engaging than just straight times and dates in a block of text. Also you are rewarded with a slight visual joke at the end which is always nice.

Jeremy Blake

This isn't an artists work, as such, but the product of scientific research into vocal cords and artificial speech. I thought it was kinda interesting (as well as very funny) so i put it into my research. i don't know weather i'll incorporate it into my work but still its fun and odd. Kinda like something from a David Lynch film.

Anthony Lister

I really like the way Anthony Lister paints, its very loose with wet dripping paint and bright vivid colour. The subject of these series of paintings are superhero's in a kind of odd and distorted way. Really nice stuff and the use of colour has defiantly influenced the way i will paint for this project.