A previous work involving tourism- dunedin


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Images

The images below document my charcoal and pencil shadow drawings. the church shown in potential display situations.

project

Following with previous ideas relating to Dunedin iconography and documentaion I am taking the literal notion of this drawing project in in my work. The subject has been narrowed to 1st church in Moray place. I have chosen 1st Church for its large grand scale and decorative features. The process in drawing this structure was in projecting a photograph and drawing the outlines of the shadows leaving the image as an empty shell of geometric forms. The projection itself I found facinating (sorry no photographs) because of a relationship with cinema being a projection and and enlargement of image etc. Not only projection looked cool but the paper i wa projecting on picked up the shadows amazingly and was viewable from behind.

I think working from illustrator the day previous was interesting coming from two opposite ends, modern tools of drawing and techniques that have been around for years and years, and charcoal which is probably close the most fundamental drawing tool.

It was a really enjoyably and theraputic exercise in drawing large scale, I felt in relation to my studio practice 'cutting loose' in a way from the screen and more computer elements is good to bring more roots back or basically including the hand of the artist more in the work I create.

illustrater workshop

Fluro Arthur Barnett

update

I just had a group discussion with Michael and a few others. We spoke about Dunedin and its heritage, architecture, and a few iconic biuldings. During this consultation I thought about where the project was heading and it seems to be definitely a literal drawing project. Large scale charcoal, I wouldnt mind playing with more transparent mediums to draw on also.

Now is a time to really start creating and producing. I may narrow my subject now to Churches. Raised high, elevated into Dunedin celebrity status.

Dunedin neon-glam/ advertising

churches in dunedin

Churches in Dunedin have become very iconic due to the fact that it says a lot about our European settlement and heritage. i see these buildings also as a way for the architect/ creator to speak loudly about their presence on earth. Don't get me wrong I think they are fantastic sculptural forms and great to look at but I think in all churches and most religions its a case of being heard (or seen) as grand and powerful. For Dunedin these buildings hold their own uniqueness for being younger, built less than 150years old in comparrison to the majority in the mother land i'd imagine. It had become a strong tourist pull for Dunedin, 'The First City Tour' cruises round the city almost purely to look at the buildings. etc

more google

These are a series of images taken from google earth which I find quite interesting as far as a 3d perspective, and how fast the site/ company are growing. The 3d images are still a long way off but they give you a pretty clear indication of how a city would feel landscape-wise. it wont be long.

Dunedin glam

The Glowing Arthur Barnett's horse.

One of my favorite Dunedin-sub celebrities. its one of the classy neon signs in town and has become very much an icon of Dunedin and even New Zealand.

image courtesy of google maps

This artist is called David Maisel. He does some pretty cool areal prints, some sweet black and white negative photos. I havn't actually worked out how or what exactly his other works are but nice to look at.

http://archinect.com/features/article.php?id=35223_0_23_0_M

Robert Smithson Spiral jetty

Richard Long A line made by walking

subject.

an image of the quarry. an option for future drawings and mapping

drawings

a mash of me

Update

Yeah so its been a while since my last update with project drawing....I have taken a similar path from my studio work. Ideas of Dunedin land marks such as the cranes in Port Chalmers, maybe this particular structure isn't considered to be an attraction but i feel the need to glamorise such amazing sculptures or even a whole environment. Other areas I intend to do more documenting of include; the quarry at Logan Park (and at Black head), Mega Mitre 10, The TV tower on Mt Cargill, and more if I can think up any. This is a staring block any way, I intend on honing in on particular aspect of interest after further investigation. At the moment I am quite enjoying the practical side of making visuals and pulling concepts out of the images to continue. Clive Humphrey's recommended that to me in an old textiles project which comes in use sometimes

lyrical abstraction

Wassily Kandinsky Composition VIII

len Lye also does some cool motion imagery, this is a screen shot of my work on the left with Leny Lye's on the right.

He work a lot with kinetic sculpture and analogue film. One work of his I find really interesting is 'Particles in Space' where he scratches the film which runs through the projector.

and some more

Here was another 3D series of drawing (very abstract) which I recorded in motion. Still playing around with ultra nerd software

The drawing begins

This was my first time playing on 3D max for a couple of years, i knew a few tools but that was it, I was hoping my naivity would produce something radical.....yeah haha.

Anyway these images were the first few that came out, kinda interesting in a wierd sort of way, simple shapes with images of Port Otago wrapped on them.

http://www.paperkurt.com/paperkurtflashmain.swf

Influences

Kurt Adams works

William Kentridge

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmvK7A84dlk&feature=related

Project drawing begins

I have slowly been gaining momentum into this project. Getting a stating point was difficult but I have begun with an artist who I think is shit hot-Kurt Adams. I was drawn to his work by his still images which appeared like charcoal drawings. He and William Kentridge's work are similar is monotone and motion, but one has the hand evident in the work and the other via a computer.

Both I feel are two great examples of modern drawing, relevant to the project.