Assessment Task 2: Conceptualising your own work, part 1

Assessment Task 2: Conceptualising your own work Kayleigh Esteller
ND2
Malcolm Mosley
Word count: 543

My theme for my work has been based on grids. As in visual studies we have been looking at them and how we can produce working around this simple form.
At the beginning of my work I filled a small green book that had grid paper, I came up with as many patterns, pictures and designs that I could think of working each time around a grid.
I found this very interesting to work with as I believe that all piece’s of work has made some kind of grid, composition or placement to them. That every detail has been placed there on purpose to create a precise piece of art.
I then began to look at pictures with in a grid, almost like it was a collage cut up into bits or placed there on purpose. Then with a picture placed on top that may or may not connect to the picture.
I very much liked the idea of nature and the ugliness of it which make it beautiful, the colours and details with make up the picture on the grid is also important. I also liked the blend of type with it all, the place of powerful words or letters.
The artist I looked at was Imants Tillers, an Australian visual artists, that has been
It was meant to represent to me that over the mountain it beautiful and sunny and here its dark and grey. Just the saying “ the grass is greener on the other side”.
Just like Tillers work where he expressed himself about nature and visions of people, mine was the same that people see on the other side that things are better.
I think the communication is very important when looking at art and how the work make the audience feel and think, a piece of work that is powerful like that is much more successful, therefore personally myself I think that Tillers work does this, it makes you look at the world around us and how it effects us. That is purely why he influenced my work as an artist. However to me his work is also beautiful, with the colours he use, tones and textures also, to create a direct and meaningful piece of art. identified as a quintessential post modern artist. His work to me is full of depth and meaning, you have to look behind the main image and read what he has wrote. Tillers work is very detailed and in large scale, which he mostly painted. As an artist myself I don’t normally use paint but for this piece of work I was really excited to. His work is based on nature and the visions we see in the world of nature “One world many visions”. His work really inspired me to create a piece of work which I have never done before. I worked on large scale also. I started of drawing a grid out, from the on I filled each square with a different media. The bottom half I only used black materials and the top half yellows and oranges. I then set about printing letters on in paint in, at the top of my work, followed by a ink drawn drawing of tree’s plus a mountain over the top.