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Jun. 2nd, 2006 10:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cybikLast night I went to see the degree shows of some of the courses at my uni. I, obviously, was most interested in the Three Dimensional Design work (that being my course), but my friends and I also wandered over to see the Fine Art and Photography. The Photography was mostly okay but there wasn't much that stood out. Fine Art was more interesting - though there seemed to be a huge bias towards painting and almost no sculpture, collage or printing. Most of the work was pretty good although there were a few things that seemed to be made purely for shock value; something I tend to find dull. The 3DD was my favourite section, of course. In general it was extremely good and rather terrifying (I have to be that good in two years, eep!).
Silver and wood jewellery by Daroush Lake - simple designs but the combination of the wood and metal works really well. He made things like cufflinks, rings and necklaces.
Rings made of Waitrose receipts that had been cut, folded and glued into patterns on silver rings and other rings with little boxes made of postcards (I think) by Caren Hartley. Bizarre, but quite striking. Porbably totally impractical, but they looked good.
Rings by Thomas Mann. Some were silver with little spots of different enamels (or possibly resin, but I think probably enamel) and other had designs that looked a little like water, long streaks the went around the rings. Very wearable, which is a surprisingly unusual thing with modern jewellery.. And, predictably, I loved the colours - all blues and greens.
Copper mesh jewellery, if one can call it jewellery, by Marion Floyd. She made a few things including a big collar of pleated fine copper mesh that has been heated (I think) to various different colours. Her stuff looks like stage costumes or like strange fungi.
Bowls by Hannah Patson. She made simple looking bowls but added flat sections of silver to make different shapes. The added pieces of metal were textured (some like lace) and some were pierced. Hard to describe properly but they were simple and, as is so often the case, that just made them more interesting.
Other things.. Hmm. Recently went to the Modernism exhibition at the V&A, whcih I would recommend to anyone at all interested. It's a very broad exhibition, with things like theatre costumes, clothes, jewellery and so on as well as the usual furniture, architectural models and drawings. There are plenty of short video clips which are actually good rather than the boring nonsense you so often get. I could happily have seen more work of certain designers (Mies van der Rohe - how can you show a collection of Modernist chairs and not have a Barcelona chair?) and less of others (Marcel Breuer, whose work is overrated in my opinion), but it was certainly one of the best exhibitions to which I've been.
Oh - may be in London at the weekend. Not sure yet, because I'm working Saturday day time and Sunday evening. That does give me Saturday night off, but I'm not entirely sure I can afford to do anything. If I'm not there then I may well come during next week after I've been paid.
I plan to go to the Globe at least once over the summer, since they're doing things I haven't seen before (Titus Andronicus and Anthony and Cleopatra, for example) and standing tickets are only £5..
Silver and wood jewellery by Daroush Lake - simple designs but the combination of the wood and metal works really well. He made things like cufflinks, rings and necklaces.
Rings made of Waitrose receipts that had been cut, folded and glued into patterns on silver rings and other rings with little boxes made of postcards (I think) by Caren Hartley. Bizarre, but quite striking. Porbably totally impractical, but they looked good.
Rings by Thomas Mann. Some were silver with little spots of different enamels (or possibly resin, but I think probably enamel) and other had designs that looked a little like water, long streaks the went around the rings. Very wearable, which is a surprisingly unusual thing with modern jewellery.. And, predictably, I loved the colours - all blues and greens.
Copper mesh jewellery, if one can call it jewellery, by Marion Floyd. She made a few things including a big collar of pleated fine copper mesh that has been heated (I think) to various different colours. Her stuff looks like stage costumes or like strange fungi.
Bowls by Hannah Patson. She made simple looking bowls but added flat sections of silver to make different shapes. The added pieces of metal were textured (some like lace) and some were pierced. Hard to describe properly but they were simple and, as is so often the case, that just made them more interesting.
Other things.. Hmm. Recently went to the Modernism exhibition at the V&A, whcih I would recommend to anyone at all interested. It's a very broad exhibition, with things like theatre costumes, clothes, jewellery and so on as well as the usual furniture, architectural models and drawings. There are plenty of short video clips which are actually good rather than the boring nonsense you so often get. I could happily have seen more work of certain designers (Mies van der Rohe - how can you show a collection of Modernist chairs and not have a Barcelona chair?) and less of others (Marcel Breuer, whose work is overrated in my opinion), but it was certainly one of the best exhibitions to which I've been.
Oh - may be in London at the weekend. Not sure yet, because I'm working Saturday day time and Sunday evening. That does give me Saturday night off, but I'm not entirely sure I can afford to do anything. If I'm not there then I may well come during next week after I've been paid.
I plan to go to the Globe at least once over the summer, since they're doing things I haven't seen before (Titus Andronicus and Anthony and Cleopatra, for example) and standing tickets are only £5..
