WEEK FIVE – SOUND ART INSTALLATION

Here is some documentation in movie form of our final week:

Read more about the work and see pictures of the process here!

Thanks to everybody involved with chit chat!!!!!!!!! x

PRINTMAKING WORKSHOP SLIDESHOW…

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PREPARATION FOR PRINTING WORKSHOP – WED 24th MARCH!……

Heres a video about the basics of the print making process which the workshop will use on wednesday:

Click here to read about other artists who use print making within their work….

WEEK THREE OF CHIT CHAT – PHOTOS, POEMS and SCISSORS…

This week the workshop looked at examples of ‘concrete poetry’ from the work of Billy childish that is currently on display upstairs in the gallery. Taking the way that Childish often arranges text on a page to create a visual form or the way that he uses fonts and text shapes/sizes to change the meaning of a poem the workshop made a series of poems inspired by photographs of a journey that they had taken the week before.

Other examples of visually interesting poetry that we looked at for reference was ee cummings, the drawings and maps in Dante’s ‘Inferno’, the collage placed next to text in poetry books by the poet/musician Patti Smith….

We made poems initially from random words cut from different word sheets and created new poems/phrases and then working in pairs the workshop produced rough ideas leading to a final piece of work/outcome: a poster inspired by the photos taken the previous week.

Click here to see the final outcomes and also check out the pictures below for a more general look at what we got up to on Tuesday 16th March:

WEEK TWO OF ‘CHIT CHAT’ – DRAWING TO MUSIC/SYMBOLS and MOOD BOARDS

We were a larger group this week and made work both individually and in pairs. In the upstairs Gallery where Billy childish’s music can be heard and record covers seen we  drew to the rhythm of the songs and made our own interpretations. Later in the workshop we considered our own individual tastes and characteristics and made a mood board that reflected us or a character/personality that we created. The aim was to end up with a symbol. Working in pairs we made a final piece (a symbol) inspired by the way that Billy Childish as opposed to signing work with his name , paints on a symbol to his canvasses instead (his personal symbol a hangman referring to ideas of starting over from pagan times and his character that he created for himself he sometimes calls ‘The Son of art’).

Below is some documentation of what we got up to. you can look at our final pieces by clicking here!

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OUR FIRST WEEK – LOOKING AT THE WORK OF BILLY CHILDISH AND OUR ATTEMPTS AT RESPONDING TO IT

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