Textile Artist 3 - Susan Stockwell

Susan Stockwell, (born 1962 in Manchester) is a contemporary British artist. Her work addresses themes of technology, ecology, politics, identity and migration using her trademark motifs of recycled computer components and other everyday materials.

Textile artist 2 - Su Blackwell

Su Blackwell

Su Blackwell graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2003. She makes intricate art-works from every-day objects, transforming clothes and books into fantastical three-dimensional forms. Using a scalpel she cuts and glues the pages of books to create miniature dioramas glowing with lights in wood and glass boxes, like Victorian relics found in a museum of intrigue.

She finds her books – or rather lets them find her – by trawling through second-hand book shops. She always reads the book first and this in turn inspires the work. Some of the books that come into the artist’s possession sit on her shelf for months and months. The books themselves, their histories and stories, also interest her. They hold in their pages a record of their past events, as physical objects; their damage, such as frays and stains, makes our relationship with the contents immediate and visceral, and in turn tells another story.

Textile artist 1 - Jane Perkins

Jane Perkins

Jane Perkins is a british artist who creates beautiful works of art by using everyday objects like marbles, toys or buttons picked up from recycling centers, second hand shops and junk yards.

ane Perkins worked as a nurse for 17 years, in a London hospital, before she decided to explore her artistic talents and got a degree in textiles in 2006. For her graduation thesis the artist chose a topic that would later be associated with her name  - “Recycled Materials in Art and Design”. She began her successful career by creating stylish brooches mad with discarded jewelry, coins, sea shells and other found junk, but soon moved on to other more complex and impressive works.

Taking inspiration from Ecuadorian artists who take broken pieces of jewelry and implement them in original hair designs, and from the found objects themselves, Perkins creates colorful masterpieces exhibited all around the world. She loves to make art with an element of fun and unexpected and says she will use anything colorful that she can get her hands on. Luckily, Jane doesn’t have to scour second-hand shops and recycling centers as much as she used to, as people in her neighborhood learned about her art and began leaving bags of unwanted stuff on her doorstep.

Vik Muniz 500 Word essay (response)

I like the way Vik makes his art work out of anything he wants and he makes each and every one of them perfect. I think the work i liked the most out of his art works is the one that he made out of sugar, where he made the images of people that he met in the carribean islands.

The reason why i liked it is because of how it looks just like the actual people from the photographs that he took of them. I like the way he made it, by putting sugar on black paper and then shaping and building the image of the people he had met and i thought that it was amazing what you can make with just black paper and sugar so yeah that was a really astonishing work from him that really caught my attention.

Another one of his works that i thought was interesting is his art work that was made out of chocolate, where obviously he makes out of chocolate including the famous painting of 'The Last Supper' So i thought that was interesting as well and such a creative and mastered thing to do or to even create!.

To make it even better ive never seen art made of chocolate before too so it made it more amazing to me to see something new but not also that but also creative and basically means that you can make art with basically anything around you, you just got to find it and make the most out of it.

 Vik Muniz also does earthworks as well and he even went to a compound area and made huge pictures in the ground and then flying in a helicopter and getting a bird eye view of his work and taking photos of his work from above it in the sky.

Overall the best thing about Vik muniz that i like is his creativity and imagination and not just imagining it but also creating what he thinks of by using anything that he thinks would carry out the thoughts in his mind and that is just amazing.

Illustration Mundo - James Jean

It looks like its been painted, On his website he doesn't tell us what he has used to make his artwork so i don't know what its made of. I like it because of the colours and detail thats been put in to it because it makes it look good. I also like the idea of putting dragons in the back and like a weird looking forest behind this girl making it seem like a dreamlike world like its not even on earth.

I like The drawing of this figure on his knee because it looks so perfect and detailed which makes it look way better than the rest of the work because i like it when someone can draw a persons whole body. I also like the way James used colours that go with each other , because it looks colourful, but then again its not too colourful and the colours match what is going on or what he is trying to show in his work.

I like the way he is very detailed with his work, like everything you see, seems like he has carefully taken his time to make each and every object with perfection and there is an intensity because there is no left over space to fill.

Image Building - Steve Lovett

I like this photoshop work because of how everything looks like its apart of the photo when really the artist added things in to it, like the dogs and probably the colours of the dogs they might have changed, but it looks real and you can't really tell that its been photoshopped.

A photo shoot of Kim Kardashian that you can see where the differences between the real image and the photoshopped image look like two really different pictures. It also shows the differences in this photo by splitting the two different images and its them next to each other for you to see for yourself of what the changes to the original image are. I like how it looks so real and you can't tell thats its been photoshopped if you don't look at the original photo and thats the cool thing i like about this work.

A photoshop piece by Steve Lovett where he took a photo, probably of himself, hand cut the photo of the person, rephotographing it and then doing touch ups on photoshop where he added in the other things inside of the missing photo. I like the idea of installation inside the missing photo he cut off using different techniques in photoshop and hand made cut outs he did which was a great combination to creating his good work.

Stencil Art - Hayley King

NAME- Haley King

MEDIA- professional stencil Artist.

I like the way Hayley used different colours and how she used her stencils and the layering of them all.

I like how she carefully cut out her stencils and made each and every one of them with perfection. When i see this art work it makes me think of the jungle and gives me a prehistoric sort of feeling as if these birds don't exist and the trees and plants you see are from a different time.

I like this work of Hayley King because of the way she used her stencils to make a perfect picture when they're all put together. I also like the colours she used in her work because its not colourful like the other work above, but more of a nature colour that would exhist in our reinforests today.

I like the way she used her colours and layering of different stencils to make one big image. I also like the colours she used, i think they go with the colour of the bird and its not too colourful or too imaginary.