I have been continuing my investigations into taking one every day object, in this case the chair and making it interesting and unusual. Abstracting its form and looking at it in new ways. I have started to make drawings by drawing round chairs and through chairs and using spray paint, spraying around the chairs form. The drawings are turning out really interestingly so i am trying to make as many as i can in order to experiment with this idea fully. I am also using the sculptures i made based on chair forms as templates in a similar way, ie drawing and spraying round them.
Simultaneoulsy i am thinking about continuing to customise existing chairs and spend time walking around glasgow trying to find disgarded chairs i can use. I have also started to investigate by taking my chair forms i made out of wood into different environments around the art school and surrounding streets, investigating how the forms intrude within space.

link to Martin Boyce's website

looking into other artists who investigate space within their work and the physicality their work within space.

Tony Cragg's website and work

another artist i am interested in is Tony Cragg, again for the way he uses everyday objects. I am looking at the process of looking at everyday objects, using the ready made to make work and then developing the work by making sculptures that reflect the idea of the object and the ready made but are constructed by the artist.

Link to Martin creed's website.

I have been looking at martin Creed's work as i am interested in his use of objects and materials as the content of his work. He is particularly interested in how people interact with objects and his work is often about view participation. This is something i am very interested in. Creed investigates perception and how perception can be altered and munipulated by the artist.

Documenting chairs

Taking photos of chairs in unusual ways and looking into people sitting in chairs and how the forms of chairs can be abstractd through the composition of the photograph.

chairs chairs chairs!

A few photos illustrating my experimentation with making abstracted chair forms from scratch and by using existing parts of chairs.

Continuing to investigate chairs as the main theme of my work, finding it interesting how diverse the forms of chairs are, how much one object can vary in design and how this can be munipulated into art work. I have started to get back into the workshops, using the wood workshop to take apart and customise existing chairs and to make forms that look like chairs from scratch. I have also been experimenting with creating new forms from the pieces i have cut off the existing chairs.