Workshop One.
In this workshop we were introduced to Richard Sweeney and shown examples of the wonderful work that he has produced.
"Richard’s practice combines the disciplines of design, photography, craft and sculpture, resulting in a varied output of work including graphic design and public sculpture commissions."
To get the feel of working in a similar way as him we were given paper and told to produce sculptural pieces which would take a 3D form but without using glue or tape.
Only being allowed to use your scalpel, the A5 paper provided and your imagination, at first it was difficult to get going, But after a few attempts of slotting the paper together the ideas were flowing thick and fast.
After experimenting with the paper and slotting it together in different ways, each outcome varied majorly. These are two of my favourite pieces from this workshop.
The sculpture in the image on the left-hand side was my first creation in that workshop, and was produced simply by cutting slits in the page and folding them round and slotting them back into the paper. I varied the size of the curve this created and the width of the piece of paper i used to make the curve. This piece reminds me of a spine in a human body in a very simple form.
The sculpture in the image on the right-hand side was produced after i had experimented more with the different types of folds i could create and the different ways of slotting the paper together. This was created by cutting parallel slots vertically down the piece of paper, and removing every other section at one end so they could move freely. I then twisted opposite corners of the page into each other which coincidentally produced the flower-like shape and the loose sections of paper were folded outwards look like different petals of the flower.
some more experiments i did in the first workshop are ...
