I have admired the work of Cornelia Parker since before I started my degree but have understood her practice from a different perspective as an artist myself and have revisited her work time and again. It is difficult or me to choose a piece that I like in particular as it is the process of …
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Influenced by Olafur Eliasson
To understand the work of Eliasson I listened to interviews, presentations and introductions to his exhibitions, mostly while at the Gym in Salford University. I subsequently followed this with study in the library when I had an over all view of the artist and an idea of what work that I am particularly interested in. …
Tears Continued
Both of the above plates were made in screen printing. The first one was etched with the ink remaining and created using an ‘open bite’ and the second left with the ink image of the tears on it with a view to marking it with a hammer and metal tools. Both of these processes were …
Tears
About the Project The tears project began with Voyager’s iconic image of earth as a tiny spec of dust suspended in a beam of light. Now 30 years old the image made headlines again recently as it was enhanced and republished. I showed this to my friends and was interested in the feedback of awe, …
7 Stories
A Commission for work for the meeting room of The Autism and Criminal Justice System Salford The Brief The brief was to create a piece of work in any medium, measuring up to 6 mtrs long by 2.5 mtrs deep. The challenge came when I visited the site and began to understand the diversity of …
Babs Smith Multidisciplinary Artist 