Curriculum Vitae

Qualifications

GCSE's:                       10 GCSE's (B-C)

AS Levels:                    2 AS's (D-B)

Higher Education:         Foundation Diploma in Art & Design

Other:                          Bronze Medallion Award

                                   RLSS Lifesaving Award

                                   Basic First Aid Certificate

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Period	Employer	Job Title
2008	TK Maxx	Associate
2009	Buncrana Leisure Centre	Lifeguard
2010	Firstsource Solutions	Customer Services Assistant

REFERENCES

Paul Barwise North West Regional College Main Street Limavady BT49 0EX Telephone 02871 278700      end_of_the_skype_highlighting

Louise Davis TK Maxx Lisnagelvin Retail Park Rossdowney Road Derry BT47 6NS Telephone 02871 318583

Toilet Talk

I've been looking at how people change their surroundings and how they leave their mark on something.  I was quiet interested in how people use toilets to graffiti.  I went to Joshua Brooks and saw how girls had left their lipstick marks on the wall, something that maybe one person had started and now it seems to carry on.  

Joshua Brooks

I've started myself to replicate what goes on in these type of environments, the idea behind it is how people change what is already there by creating drawings or messages. In tutorials with Mary Stark we talked about printing my own paper which I will start to do in the workshops, and possibly think of strategies of how people can get involved in what I want to achieve.  Some of the things that I came up with that I may experiment with are: 

• Tape paper to the floor and have people walk over it to create marks of people passing through.
• Post it notes to create messages.
• Record conversations. 

The Temple Bar

Allan Kaprow

I've been looking into an artist called Allan Kaprow recently.  He helped to establish performance art and he helped to develop the ‘Environment’ and ‘Happenings’. The "Happening" allows the artist to experiment with body motion, recorded sounds, written and spoken texts, and even smells.  It seems quiet relevant in what my vision is of the Old School/New School project, as I've said on my last post that I want to develop something interactive.  Kaprow's work attempts to integrate daily life and art together.  I don't want to replicate his work, just to have my own version of 'happenings' and this for me is in the form of a noticeboard/fanzines for people to communicate what ever they like. 

Allan Kaprow, 1961 Words

Artwork Description & Analysis: Words, exhibited at the Smolin Gallery in New York in 1962, takes the audience on a journey through two rooms, encouraging them to contribute to written and verbal components as they progress. Through this interactive environment, Kaprow denotes "urban text" referencing graffiti, billboards, newspapers, overheard conversations, and a lecture, engaging the viewer in a multi-sensory experience that literally brings "words" to life. The importance of this piece is based in the responsibility of the viewer to become part of the creative process beyond passive involvement. 

http://www.theartstory.org/artist-kaprow-allan.htm

Beginning of Ideas

At the start of my project I was immediately interested in the concept of fanzines, which I came across while I was at the Dave Haslam talk.  I liked that they’re self published and interesting to look at because I feel that they can come in any form and that they represent different things.  This got me thinking on ideas that I wanted to have my own concept of a fanzine.  I found it difficult to begin with as I wasn’t sure on how to relate it back to the OLD SCHOOL/NEW SCHOOL brief.  

I began to research fanzines and because I like the music scene I find posters, flyers etc. interesting to look at and how they're posted up things posted over them, ripped of the walls creating layers.  So this gave me an idea of something interactive for students to get involved with so that it creates user manipulation.  

I started with the idea of having possibly something on a wall painted/projected on but covering it with 'fanzines' peoples own work, photos, info. etc. and have them put it up themselves creating layers and then have it ripped apart to reveal what would be underneath.  As this is just an initial idea I was to try and develop this further and possibly get my group involved in helping me test out the user manipulation. 

Girli Concrete @ The Playhouse Derry

Over Easter I visited The Playhouse in Derry, I found from Tactility Factory’s website that they had been commissioned for a piece of work for the entrance.  I thought it would be a wasted opportunity not to go and see the work for myself as I live in the same city.

I really like the work which took up the full wall, I particularly liked the effect that the paint had, it looked like layers upon layers of old paint that had been there for years I’m really interested in the use of layers because for me it shows that there is history there.

Special Collections

On Monday I went to special collections just for some history on Manchester, I wasn’t quite sure what I was looking for, but I came across a Portfolio of Original Prints of Manchester by Norman C. Jaques who was a lecturer in printmaking at Manchester Polytech in the department of fine art.  I think with our project old school/new school it’s important to look at the history of Manchester itself.  The prints show Manchester as a developing city and it’s nice to see how things stay the same and how they can move on.