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ECHO CAELIA GODDARD
In addition to a stream of current coursework this gallery will display extracurricular creative projects. Including photography and costume makeup, this is a space for variation and personal interests.
YOUR UNCERTAIN SHADOW
A series of photos taken from my visit to the Tate Modern in December 2019 - Looking at the Olafur Eliasson exhibition.
This interactive installation was created by the use of five coloured lights alined on the floor: magenta, orange, blue and two green lights. Combined these coloured lights create white light projections onto a white wall. When a person enters the room and obstructs these light projections from different angles multiple colourful shadows appear as well as a dark central one.
Due to the properties of additive colour we see the shadows such as yellow thanks to the mixture of green , magenta and orange when the blue light is blocked.
As the person moves around they create different combinations of silhouette colours as well as changing the intensity and scale.
CARMEN T-SHIRTS
Through the Royal Opera House design challenge I discovered my love for screen printing, which led me and my classmate Tallulah to create our own line of hand printed t-shirts. The design used was a poster concept for the opera Carmen where the lead Carmen is depicted as a black woman surrounded by the desperate and tormenting faces of Don Jose. The concept behind the design was influenced by the Black Lives Matter movement as a response to directors vision 2.
We Started out experimenting with different layouts as a result of early process errors, which actually enabled us to have a wide variety of styles that celebrated the handmade process. Once we had a clear idea of what we wanted to create we advertised our t-shirts online. Our brand, Creative Finder's, has its own instagram account where we talk directly to customers and post any updates. Once we established a following we began to take custom orders.
I took these photos to promote the t-shirts as well as going towards Tallulah's Royal Opera House display boards.
UNEXPECTED EXHIBITION
One evening last summer in Lucca, Italy, I went into an open church and discovered a fascinating art exhibition within. Laying on the alter was a sculpture of highly realistic, ceramic human bones, adorned with painted ceramic ladybirds.The exhibition also included chairs with faces made from recycled materials, such as old bullets and fuel vessels.One of the most striking exhibits was the incredibly detailed and realistic sculptures of ceramic snails combined with general waste.
PRIMARY OBSERVATION IN NATURE
As an artist it is important to do primary research on your subject matter, especially in nature. If armed only with an image taken from the internet, you are unable to study and analyse exactly what it is you wish to design in great enough detail, to understand the subject matter. Whether that be the way it moves or small details that may be missed at certain angles. When taking my own photos of the butterflies, I was able to capture how they land on flowers as well as how they moved away, this enables me to do a series of drawings of the exact same butterfly rather than using multiple references and trying to merge them into one consistent creature.
The photograph on the left is a single moment captured clearly with a depth of focus, this could aid me in a painting, where I wanted to present the butterfly as a gentle and calm creature. Having captured a fast movement and turned it into a still image, it can be viewed endlessly, unlike the reality of watching the butterfly itself land momentarily, then suddenly take off again.
The photograph on the right does almost the opposite. Purely by accident I had set my camera to take multiple exposures on one combined image, giving the duel aspect of the butterfly landing and departing at the same time. This image creates a vivid sense of movement which debunks the assumption of the butterfly being a tranquil creature. In a way it portrays chaos and panic as the backgrounds haven't alined correctly, mimicking a shaking or shivering motion. Sometimes accidental photos can be far more successful than those which were intended. We often find it hard to let go of the reason we are taking the image and are therefore restricted to only producing what we expect of ourselves.