Tuesday 5th of July Introduction to the Research narrative professional development and reflection for third year
This section of my website will provide an insight into what my practice involves when looking at my research and how this informs the work i create, this section for the third year will also provide a summery of how my work is created along with sketches to show the development for my ideas from start to finish.
Artwork Mind map
Image one
The Image above demonstrates the contextual aspects to how my work will develop and the various forms of artist research that will feed the idea for this Installation prison from the Initial stages moving forward.
Installation structure plan
Image two
The Image above represents three prison cell blocks shown split in red, yellow and brown, this image shows from an arial perspective each part that makes up this installation prison, and provides an initial starting point that demonstrates my thinking for the way in witch this artwork can be installed and deinstalled.
The fourth part to the prison shown in green is the front of the prison that is the entrance to this installation sculpture, with the middle part of this installation shown as a rectangle in blue, this part of the structure is the observation tower that makes up the central point to this prison installation.
Image three
Along with this central observation tower, I’m also thinking of creating an octagon shaped roof that will hold the individual prison cells, front door entrance and observation tower together, all individually created for a functional installation artwork that can be installed and deinstalled.
Panopticon Prison Installation model
Process video
This video shows the process for what I’d like this prison installation to look like before doing the actual work.
I’ve taken this approach so I have better scope of measurements and visual presentation rather then showing the process for the practical work through prints and etching first in the same sense of how I’d undertaken first and second year.
I thought of taking this approach to this Installation specifically because I looked back at the methods I used during first and second year for the BA fine art and reflected on how I could nuance and refine my creative process for a more accurate and thought out plan for how this installation will be installed and deinstalled.
Panopticon prison Installation model
Process video two
Model of first prison cell, Fig 1
Model of second prison cell, Fig 2
Model of third prison cell, Fig 3
Model of Observation tower, Fig 4
Front part of prison model, Fig 5
Roof component of Installation model, Fig 6
Installation model, Fig 7
Installation model, Fig 8
Installation model, Fig 9
Installation model, Fig 10
Installation model, Fig 11
Installation model, Fig 12
Panopticon Installation model
Video three
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Mind map for the theoretical aspects for the prison Installation & Visit to the Clink Prison museum …
Video includes overlapped sound effects and key information gained from the Clink prison museum visit
The visit to the Clink prison museum gave me ideas for props to use through my Prison Installation, and made me think about how the display of objects can be presented through metal railings and lights from what I saw at the Clink prison museum, and this not only allowed me to broaden my thoughts for how I would won’t to go about arranging these found objects.
But has also gave me more of a purposeful approach for how these objects would add more depth and meaning to this Installation prison I have in mind adding more of a backstory through organisation and display.
Turner Contemporary art gallery, Margate Kent, June 3rd 2022
Kent Margate, Open studios, June 3rd 2022
This edited video I’ve pot together shows The open studios located in Margate Kent, Run by the artist Charmaine evens, within her studio is a series of paintings sculptures and mixed media artworks.
Video documentation on the Clink and British museum
The Clink museum and the British Museum was documented to show research conducted through visiting the ideas of prisons from an older place in time, also by going to these two museums.
This gave me the chance to broaden my research allowing me to form multiple perspectives when looking into Isolation culture through the prison penal system, rather then feeling the need to stick to the concepts of an Observation prison with the Panopticon as a singular perspective.
The (RA) Royal Academy Summer show, Artworks from 2015 and 2022
The video above documents work by the artist Cristina lglesias, titled Wet Labyrinth (With spontaneous Landscape), 2020-22
This video documentation from the RA also includes work from the 2015, Lake Michigan Bathroom (2) 2014, Porcelain and stoneware, 98 x 121 x 22 Inches by the artist Ann Agee.
Bicycle Chandelier, 2015, Bicycles and Crystals, Courtesy of Ai Weiwei Studios.
S.A.C.R.E.D, 2012, The artwork uses Six dioramas – Supper, Accusers, Cleansing Ritual, Entropy, Doubt.
Materials for the artwork S.A.C.R.E.D Include Fibreglass, iron, Oxidised metal, wood, polystyrene, sticky tape, Courtesy of Ai Weiwei Studios and Lisson Gallery.
Simon Lee Gallery, 12 Berkeley St, London W1J 8DT
Impossible dreams, 23rd of April – November 27th 2022, Palazzo delle Prigioni, Venice Italy
This art exhibition titles Impossible dreams looks back at how Taiwan’s cultural contexts and perspectives have been presented at this international art spectacle through diverse contemporary art, that confronts history, society and pressing issues issues in our everyday lives over the 13 editions, ever since its first participation in the Biennale Arte in 1995.
Lyes Gallery, Celestial Union, 7th – 20th July, 2022
Hauser & Wirth, 24 Saville Row offices, June 2022
Clarindon fine art Surface tension the NFT gallery
White cube art gallery, Michael Armitage, Amongst the Living with Seyni Awa Camara, 21st September – 30th October 2022
White Cube art gallery, Amongst the Living Seyni Awa Camara, September 21st – October 30th 2022
Documenta 15, September 12th 2022
Day one
I found the trip at Documenta 15 2022 was an amazing event thanks to this exhibition being held once every five years, along with there being a wide mixture of artworks and art forms being presented including Installations, paintings, land based artworks, political artworks that link to cultural production and art activism & art movements etc.
Documenta 15, Tuesday, September 13th, 2022
Day two
Documenta 15, Wednesday, September 14th, 2022
Day three
First Prison cell door video process one
Second prison cell door video process two
Third prison cell door video process three
First Prison window paint video process one
Second Prison Window video process two
Door fixing process, October 11th, 2022
The doors I’m using for the observation tower and front of the prison Installation, are hollow doors that I found left in a skip-yard, this video above is the process I’ve used to support the base for both of them.
Front of prison Installation process one
Front door of prison Installation process two
Front & back of the Panopticon prison installation front door
Three videos showing the ideas of the Panopticon relating to todays current world
During this stage of my process I’ve thought of using current ideas in the real world to link to the Ideas of the Panopticon prison, since the concept of the Panopticon is an ideas of a prison that uses surveillance as a means of control, I’ve looked into this idea playing out in the real world, this made me think of using three countries, China, Iran, and North Korea, shown in todays world for governmental surveillance & oppression.
North Korea’s surveillance culture
Iran’s surveillance culture & oppression
China’s surveillance culture
The videos above of China, Iran and North Korea are ways of showing how the ideas presented by Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon or the Inspection house 1791, can relate to the current world we live in, through governmental systems that use observation as a way to control and suppress the freedoms of its citizens, the same as seen with the panopticon surveillance prison monitoring inmates.
This similarity is not only more intriguing with how a theory made over a long time ago remains In many ways more prvallient to todays modern world, but how surveillance culture has been a topic that has stood the test of time having been a recurring point of conversation over many years.
The freeze art fair, October 16th 2022
The freeze art fair 2022 seemed to have declined in terms of artworks having a deeper or more succinct meaning to each work, with most works looking bland or rather poorly thought through, compared to past freeze visits I’ve been on.
Observation tower metal engraving & glue process
This video shows the methodical process I’ve used when creating the door for the observation tower, the central part for this Panopticon prison installation, I’ve used wooden blocks taken from backyard skips around my local area around my house, along with a prison padlock to rest on top of the metal to help hold it down during the drying process.
Observation tower front door engrave and paint process
For the front door of the observation tower, I’ve used sharpie marker stainless steel metal, wood & metal engraving, plus red & black acrylic paint for finishing the door of the observation tower.
Observation tower roof & floor process video
This video shows the methodical process used whilst making the rood and floor for the observation tower component for this installation artwork.
First wall of Observation tower process video one
The walls I’m using to make this observation tower make up the concept of being unknowingly observed, I convey this idea through using skulls with light up eyes to represent this abstraction.
Second and third walls of observation tower finished, process video for all walls for the observation tower finished
Observation tower, construction process, October 25th, 2022
This video process shows the display of the light-up skulls in combination with the engraved red and black door, used to convey the basis for the metabolisation of production through my engraving practice, the subject of the Observation tower construct for the Panopticon prison surveillance system of control.
This is a concept that I’ve made my own version of through practice, this idea has not only influenced my practice this year through linking this idea of surveillance explined by 18th century philosophy.
But has further gained comparative depth by linking this to modern day surveillance, in todays current world, this concept has also been integrated into my thesis essay for third year, with the original concept steaming from the english philosopher Jeremy Bentham.
Observation tower, roof fixing & wall painting process
This video process shows the methodical visual display of how I’ve fixed the roof to the observation tower along with the wall’s painted black and red.
The process I’ve used was done by layering the marks with the two colours to represent struggle and tension within the physical work, through overlapping the tones of both paints used, in order to make the connection to prisons with the sense of struggle or advertise one associates with prison culture, antisocial behaviour and loss of mental health being few of many.
Wednesday, October 26th, Observation tower process finished with wood floors cut to size according to the cardboard installation model
Artist research, October 29th 2022
Laurence Abu Hamdan, Penetrates an Inaccessible Prison using sound
Matthew Day Jackson, Dynamist 2019
https://www.artsy.net/artwork/matthew-day-jackson-dynamist
Blow up, by Michelangelo, 1966
https://www.filmsite.org/blow.html
Paul McCarthy, Blockhead Installation, Tate Modern
https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/paul-mccarthy
Paul McCarthy, Mad House,
1999/2008
https://whitney.org/exhibitions/paul-mccarthy
Richard Jackson, Installations
https://www.ocregister.com/2013/02/22/richard-jackson-takes-painting-to-the-next-level/
Entrance of Prison installation building process, peep hole added to observation tower
This video process demonstrates the steps taken to build the physical form for the entrance of this installation along with a peep hole added to the front door of the observation tower to allow the viewer to see the outside from behind the door looking from inside out.
This is the sound effects I’m thinking of using for this prison installation
MP3 Player I’m recording the sound with
The sound effects I’m using for this prison Installation URL link, Akira Yamaoka – A stray child by Solstice
Front part of Prison Installation, coated with primer & black paint
New artist research, Tuesday November 2nd 2022
Artist research on Banks Violette
://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/201901/banks-violette-78018
Bank Violette Saatchi gallery
https://www.saatchigallery.com/artist/banks_violette
Artist research on Sterling Ruby
https://www.saatchigallery.com/artist/sterling_ruby
https://gagosian.com/artists/sterling-ruby/
Artist research on Simon Sterling
https://artandthis.typepad.com/art_and_this/2009/04/the-work-of-simon-starling.html
Three roofs & floors of prison cells finished,
Process video
Image collection of Foundation year plus first and second year BA fine artwork & research
Foundation year, collage of art and supportive research
First year BA fine art, Image collage of art and supportive research
Second year BA Fine art, Images of art and supportive research
November 3rd process video
Documenta 15, Thursday September 15th
Documenta 15, Friday September 16th
Saturday, September 17th, 2022
LUX exhibition, 180 Studios, July 7th 2022 …
The L.U.X Exhibition had many various installations that I’ve arranged in this video process, to actively demonstrate further diverse research into other artists various works, that implement the use of light, sound and immersion in practice.
Artist research on Christian Boltanski
https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5596818
http://www.dreamideamachine.com/?p=65300
Artist research on Tony Cragg
Artist research on Richard Long
https://www.artimage.org.uk/4657/richard-long/white-water-lines–1999–detail-
http://www.richardlong.org/Exhibitions/2011exhibitupgrades/norflint.html
Ideas Can Last Forever: A Conversation with Richard Long
https://www.lissongallery.com/artists/richard-long
https://www.themodern.org/program/richard-long-slow-art-virtual
https://artmap.com/konradfischer/exhibition/richard-long-2015?print=do
Skull engraving process video
In this video process I’ve used Red and black markers and engraved over them for the resin plastic skull, Ive engraved it whilst using red and black makers for it to complement and blend in with the doors and walls better.
Process update, November 12th, 2022 …
Props for Prison Installation
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Fig two
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Fig four
These Props I’m using are being used within the body of my work for this Installation to actively demonstrate prison symbolism, I’m displaying these objects as a means to increase meaning and depth for Instance, fig 4 being an Image of a rotating motor and sand timer, that I’ll be using to portray movement in the work as well as connecting the idea of time with this prison installation, since the idea of incarceration and the passage of time have a clear connection as the two concepts work together.
Prison Installation, Cell one, process update, November 12th, 2022 …
Prison Installation, Cell one, Second process update, Prison Window drilled, November 12th, 2022 …
The Panopticon prison expanded view
Serpentine & Serpentine North art gallery, July 29th 2022 …
Process update for first Prison cell plus sand timer, Process video, November 15th, 2022…
Process update November 16th, 2022…
With this process update I’ve used gorilla glue, drill screws nuts and bolts to attache the objects to the wall for the first prison cell.
Testing out the observation tower, Thursday November 17th 2022 …
Artist research on Mike Kelly
Artist Research on Robert Bresson
James Quandt on Robert Bresson’s L’Argent 1983 …
https://www.artforum.com/print/201209/james-quandt-on-robert-bresson-s-l-argent-1983-36150
The film Pickpocket, Robert Breeson Trilogy …
Research on Arte Povera
Artist research on Jannis Kournellis
Art Basel, Untitled 2000,
https://www.artbasel.com/catalog/artwork/85806/Jannis-Kounellis-Untitled
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/kounellis-untitled-ar00068
Artist research on Giuseppe Penone
https://www.apollo-magazine.com/force-of-nature-interview-with-giuseppe-penone/
Research on MicVicar 1980’s film
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081144/
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/38539-mcvicar
Research on Steve McQueen Hunger 2008
https://www.filmaffinity.com/us/film842469.html
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0986233/
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/hunger-2009
https://www.criterion.com/films/477-hunger
Artist research Richard Hamilton, 1969-70
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/hamilton-fashion-plate-p07937
https://www.wikiart.org/en/richard-hamilton
Richard Hamilton, The Citizen
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/hamilton-the-citizen-t03980
Artist research on Krzysztof Wodiczko
https://culture.pl/en/artist/krzysztof-wodiczko
Artist Research on Gordon Matta-Clark
https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/gordon-matta-clark
Artist Research on Robert-Smithson
https://umfa.utah.edu/spiral-jetty
Artist research on Toni Smith,
Toni Smith, Die 1968
https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.127623.html
https://whitney.org/collection/works/4891
Thomas Houseago’s observation on Tony Smiths work
https://aaep1600.osu.edu/book/11_TSmith.php
Tony Smith Smoke 2008
https://www.asergeev.com/pictures/archives/compress/2015/1700/13x.htm
https://unframed.lacma.org/2017/03/21/first-look-tony-smith-smoke
Tony Smith the Suburban Sublime
LE Corbusier, Tony Smith and the problem of use
Prison cell prop added to first cell, plus Golden Handel added to observation tower, Video process
Observation tower, adding second peep hole, process video
First prison cell door fitted and first three walls painted
November 24th, 2022, First Prison cell finished, process video …
Visit to the LuYang NeTiNeTi, Zabludowicz collection, Multimedia trip, 176, Prince of Wales road, Thursday, November 24th, 2022…
Silver peep hole, fitted into Observation tower, process video, Friday, November 25th, 2022…
First prison cell, Friday, November 25th, 2022 …
Front of Prison Installation, Friday, November 25th, 2022…
Inside the front of the Prison Installation, Friday, November 25th, 2022…
Glossy photographic paper, 39.5 x 56cm, Black Acrylic paint
Images Inside the front of the Prison Installation, used to mix with the video, shown before, through my body of work.
Roof of Installation, process video 5/12/2022
Artist research, on Arthur Jafa, 7/12/2022
Arthur Jafa, LeRage 2017
https://icamiami.org/exhibition/arthur-jafa/
Artist research on Anna lmhof, Spruth Magers, 7/12/2022
https://www.timeout.com/london/art/anne-imhof-avatar-ii
https://spruethmagers.com/artists/anne-imhof/
Artist research, 7/12/2022, Serpentine Pavilion, 2022, Black Chapel by Theaster Gates
https://www.dezeen.com/2022/06/07/theaster-gates-black-chapel-serpentine-pavilion-2022/
https://www.archdaily.com/983466/black-chapel-theaster-gates-2022-serpentine-pavilion-is-now-open
https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/visit/
Artist research, Allora & Calzadilla, 7/12/2022
Allora & Calzadilla, Lesson art gallery
https://www.lissongallery.com/artists/allora-and-calzadilla
https://www.kurimanzutto.com/artists/allora-calzadilla#tab:slideshow
https://art21.org/artist/allora-calzadilla/
https://www.artuner.com/artists/allora-calzadilla/
Process update, 7/12/2022, Prison cell latches for both doors
Roof of prison installation, making and painting process, 9/12/2022
Sprueth Magers art gallery, Kensington gardens, London W2 3XA
Serpentine art gallery, London W2-3XA
Observation tower, process update 04/1/2023
Observation tower, Nunnery exhibition 2023
First process video for second prison cell, 1/19/2023
The Wallace collection, 20/01/2023
https://www.wallacecollection.org/
Clarendon Fine Art, 20/01/2023
Gazelle Art House, 20/01/2023
Second prison cell, process video, 26/01/2023
Process video, 27/01/2023
CCTV cameras Install, process video, 30/01/2023
Wood saw process Video, 1/02/2023
Process video, 2/02/2023
Third prison cell, painting process, 4/02/2023
This is the sound effects I’m going to use for the degree show for this prison installation
‘Panopticon prison: observed to death’ work in progress, 6/02/2023, the final degree show is in May
Artist research on Gavin Turk, 13/02/2023
https://www.itsnicethat.com/news/gavin-turk-skip-gallery-transubstantiation-art-131017
https://imma.ie/collection/gavin-turk-right-hand-and-forearm/
https://www.alminerech.com/artists/182-gavin-turk
http://gavinturk.com/artworks/image/10748/
Attaching locks to third prison cell, process video, 14/02/2023
Brackets for CCTV and video monitor, painted black, Process video, 16/02/2023
Michael Pinsky: pollution pods
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Pinsky
https://www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/michael-pinsky-pollution-pods
Prison cell’s staple gun process, 23/02/2023…
Neon light added to the Installations entrance, process video,
26/02/2023
Ilya and Emilia Kabakov artist research, 27/02/2023
https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/ilya-and-emilia-kabakov
http://www.kabakov.net/about-ba
Thomas Hirschhom artist research, 27/02/2023
https://www.stephenfriedman.com/artists/41-thomas-hirschhorn/
http://www.thomashirschhorn.com/
Reinhard Mucha artist research, 27/02/2023
https://www.luhringaugustine.com/artists/reinhard-mucha#tab:thumbnails
Mike Nelson artist research, 27/02/2023
https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/art-exhibitions/mike-nelson-extinction-beckons
Bruce Nauman artist research, 27/02/2023
https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/451
Simon Starling’s Installations, artist research, 27/02/2023
Carceral geography: Spaces and practices of incarceration, by Dominique Moran, (2014) Artist research and exploration, 27/02/2023
https://carceralgeography.com/category/research-news/books-and-papers/
Artist research Jenny Holzer’s signs, 27/02/2023
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/jenny-holzer-1307/5-ways-jenny-holzer-brought-art-streets
https://www.thecollector.com/who-is-jenny-holzer-text-art-installation-artist/
Panopticon prison installation, from a lit-up perspective, 27/02/2023
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Panopticon prison installation 