Miriam Leach
Fine art degree SAC117
Other Influences
Cornelia Parker
Relevance to my work:
Cornelia Parker used a steam roller to roll over a variety of different objects such as silver table settings and tuba’s. Parker also blew up a shed and displayed the dismantled shed as if it were in mid explosion, lit up. Parker’s work shows the fragility of earthly pleasures, reflecting this part of the vanitas theme. However, I haven’t used much of the ideas or methods within her work.
Jan Sterbak
Vanitas: Flesh Dress for an Albino Anorectic
Relevance to my work:
Jan Sterbak’s piece uses temporal materials (meat), similar to those of Anya Gallaccio, that rot and create a visceral response within the viewer. The dress also makes the materials used a personal object, helping the viewer to reflect for themselves on the temporality of the work. Similar to Gallaccio and Sterbak I am using temporal materials within my work to create a visceral response within the viewer.
for an Albino Anorectic
Gabriel Orozco
Relevance to my work:
Orozco uses photography to capture ephemeral moments in time such as water and unfired clay. He also created used a real human skull in a work called Black Kites and hand drew a chess board grid in graphite onto the skull. Orozco is from Brazil where death is not feared but celebrated with the day of the dead. So this skull could be seen as both a homage to the Dutch masters and Damien Hirst and a celebration of death. Orozco here is drawing viewers’ attention to death and there viewpoints on the matter through the use of the real human skull, causing the viewer to realise the inevitability of death. Though I am not using such a physical symbol of death as the skull within my work, Orozco’s more positive take on death is something I hope to grasp within my work, that there is hope in death through the titles of the works and the quotes that rotate on the TV screen.
Felix Gonzalez
Relevance to my work:
Gonzalez uses sweets which can be taken by the viewer, creating an ever changing work of art. This could be something that I could
embrace within my work, allowing the viewer to manipulate the whiteboard drawings.
Graham Crowley
Relevance to my work:
Crowley creates beautiful paintings of exotic looking bunches of flowers painted in black and white to make the artwork look like chalk and charcoal. This relates well to my experimentation with chalkboards. The use of light and shadow through shading is something that I have tried to replicate through my use of line within my pointillist/hatched drawings.
