Sarah Bowker-Jones
(34 years old. Born in United Kingdom. Lives in: London)
The Slade School of Fine Art
I use art as a cognitive practice, my visual language being defined through a process involving perpetual creation, destruction, and re-creation of methods (system and play), to open otherwise dormant possibilities. Drawing is the recurring thread in my practise, from the 2D marks made on a surface to the careful positioning of 3D objects alluding to vector space. The viewer is invited to move through the paths created and may ...[more]
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Work of art I would like to make
I propose to make a large, indoor, sculpture/painting using many 200cm long ribbons of 3cm wide, 2mm thin steel; 6 x 300cm long, 1cm diameter studded rods; and pigmented dough. The structural shape will be dependant on the vertical placement of the studded rods. The ribboned steel will be threaded onto the rods, held in place with nuts, and manipulated according to my desires and the materials capabilities. Once my structure is built I shall mix up several, different pigmented, doughs. The dough will be slowly, and carefully, pressed, thinly, onto the steel ribbons.
The viewer shall look at the work, walk around and through the work, look into and out of the work. As time passes, the dough will slowly change colour, as the steel rusts, later it will be repelled from the surface, creating thin layers of air in places. At other times, pieces of dough may actually leave the surface and land on the floor, resulting in a random, continuous change of composition.
The piece will be positioned to receive good light, ideally natural, to compliment the translucent qualities of the dough, and potential for light reflections, and colour hues to hit surfaces.
Actual measurements, unit amounts, and colours, are currently being worked out through drawings – the numbers above are to be used purely as a guide.
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My Artworks (6)
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