Week 1 Term 1

Week 1 term 1 of Art and my first workshop for the next 4 weeks is Sculpture. In the end I will have gotten round to doing all four of the workshops. They contain Sculpture, Printmaking, Drawing and Painting.
I will admit, I was slightly apprehenisve about the sculpture workshop. After all, I hadnt had much experience in that field, and what little I did have, I hadnt taken away a very positive attitude from the subject. But everything is worth a shot, right?
We were introduced to Angie, who would be tutoring us for the next four weeks in Sculpture. She gave us a worksheet which had a brief on it for us to organise for the week after. To summarise the brief was basically to think of a theme or subject that you would focus on for the next three weeks and base your work around. It was quite open, and I have to admitt when I first read it my mind went blank. I had absolutely no idea what I could think of as a basis for my work. Although in the back of my mind I knew the reason for this: all my educational life I have been told what to do. Or at least given some sort of an idea to get me off the ground. Now I was completely on my own, and it was/still is pretty scary. Although I know some people love the freedom of not being told, sometimes I just enjoyed the safety of it.
Anyway, so I began by researching some of the listed artists on the breif, such as Ed Ruscha, David Shrigley, Jack Pierson and Wim Delvoye, to try and inspire myself. I found most of their work interesting, mainly because I was new to them and their work. I found the work of Wim Delvoye rather interesting. Lots of his work is focused on the body, and although he is quite a controversial and sometimes shocking artist, there was a strange beauty to his work e.g: his machinary constructions, which are made out of laser cut steel. They are monsterous, yet rather beautiful.

Although I found most the artists suggested on the brief interesting, nothing was really grabbing my attention. Maybe it was because I still felt a little bit intimdated by the subject. Im not sure. I began to worry, thinking I was running out of time for an ideato appear, and that it would be too late to develop it if it did at this stage.
After this I came across Tom Sachs when I was researching the listed artists. His work seemed quite bold and structural. If there was anything I could say I was thinking of basing a project on at this stage, I would probably say it would be something structural. It sounds vauge, but it made a bit of sense in my head. What caught my eye about him was the sculptures he did of guns.

I didnt quite know where something along the weaponry lines would lead, but by then this was the one thing that had got me interested.
So I decided to make this my idea for when we came back next week.