Katie Harnden

PAIK – Tate Modern

Visiting the Nam June Paik exhibition at the Tate Modern has been a very insightful experience. His work stretches across a large spectrum from experimenting with technology and objects, to sound and large installations. Every piece carries deep meaning and causes fascination (or infant confusion) for the viewer. The first piece was ‘TV garden’ whereContinue reading “PAIK – Tate Modern”

Christmas Card Competition

The brief was to create a Christmas card for DARE ‘The Development, Alumni Relations and Engagement directorate’ from Kingston University and to keep in touch with alumni in and outside the UK. The request was for a Christmas card including one of the Kingston University buildings and to include an artistic flair. If successful, theContinue reading “Christmas Card Competition”

Everything is a Remix

Inspired by Gus Powell and Van Gogh The ‘Everything is a Remix’ poster combines two different artist techniques together to create something new from something old. For this project I chose photographer Gus Powell and painter Van Gogh to be my inspirations. After selecting various images and photos from books ‘Van Gogh and Nature’ and ‘The Company of Strangers’ I began to brainstormContinue reading “Everything is a Remix”

Assignment 1 | Typographic Collage

Richard Long is famous for creating geometrical shapes out of resources such as stones and wood, in open spaces. The paleolithic style can be seen through his art due to his use of simple shapes and materials. His deliberately placed mediums forming circles and lines shows the simplicity of connecting art with the natural world.Continue reading “Assignment 1 | Typographic Collage”

Remixing Barbara Kruger

To experiment the theme of remixing, we used Barbara Krugers work to create our own video ‘remixes’. As a group, we chose three different photos by the artist and removed the original words from her work and added three self chosen quotes. Then we published our work on Instagram with further mediums such as GIFsContinue reading “Remixing Barbara Kruger”

The Invasion of Kingston

As a small project, we were instructed to choose three 8 bit invaders (inspired by the artist ‘Invader’) and put them around the town of Kingston. As a group we initially chose three 8 bit images and discussed which materials we wanted to use to paint the shapes on. We chose to create stencils ofContinue reading “The Invasion of Kingston”

Leadbydonkeys

Discovering the Led by Donkeys group has been an eye opener in regards to the topic of campaigning. The group is made up of four men who publish past statements on billboards by Brexit supporting politicians. These statements show the lack of action to their promises, and the lies they have declared as true. IContinue reading “Leadbydonkeys”