jack hainsworth
Art and Design Blog
Eastside Projects.
12 Oct 2018
We went to the EastSide Projects gallery in Digbeth, curated by Gawin Wade. one of the main pieces on display was a hanging chandelier of shells, most of which have been anodised at a local factory. This pieces is important as it represents the local industry around digbeth.
One of the pieces I relaly liked was the crack in the floor, which had been filled in with various objects and coloured epoxy.
The outside of the building was also very interesting, as it had been painted with amazing graffiti art, much like the rest of digbeth.
Book Exhibits.
12 Oct 2018
As an exercise in curation, we used our books made at the end of the Historian brief, to create an exhibition. We took into account the space, the height of the items, which ones were together, etc.
One of the things we had to take into account that I hadn't thought of was the colour of the stands. They were almost all white, apart from 3 unpainted MDF stands. In the end, we arrangd them so that these 3 were against a white wall for contrast, and the white stands were in the center of the room, so they contrast with the brown floor.
Digital Curation.
12 Oct 2018
For the main project of this section, we were asked to create 3 online spaces, such as pinterest, instagram or tumblr, and curate them over the following week. During our brief, I came up with some ideas for an instagram feed where all of the tiles combine into one long image. I played with the idea of portraits, but in the end stuck with my first idea, which was to create an artificial desk, containing the items which artists from a variety of disciplines would use.
I started with my own area of art, drawing. I took square photos of the bottom half of pencils, top half, 6 of a notebook, and an eraser. I uploaded these in a certain order so that they looked like one image of a drawer's set up.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_tools_of_the_trade/?hl=en
My next idea, which I considered the easiest choice, was a youtube playlist of art tutorials. This was an easy choice as this is already my main source of art tips and tricks. I tart by combining any videos I could remember using into the playlist, and for the rest of week added any extra videos that I came across.
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLadOKuD3rctrU71iqh6r3kEmw7nCGhxTT
And lastly, I chose to make a pinterest board. I chose the first image from the main page that caught my interest, and went from there. Whenever you 'pin' an item on pinterest, the website shows you more of the same sort of pins that it thinks you may like. This ended up taking me down a rabbit hole which seemed to again lead to creating a board of at tips tricks and tutorials. Some of the items I pinned weren't however, so I decided to split the board into 2, of tutorials and or inspiration.
