WEEK#3 3D Spacial Design & Rachel Whiteread exhibition

On the first day, we were put into groups of six and together we made a 3D map of the countries we each came from in relation to each other. We used string and were encouraged to make use of the environment around us such as the studio space and the protruding and recessing forms of the room. Our group included two people from Belgium, one from England, one from Scotland, one from Turkey and I, from Hong Kong. 

We decided to put together a cluster of chairs, held together by masking tape, as the landmark of Chelsea - representing the creative and artistic, at the same time messy and busy environment. We used different coloured string to represent means of transport such as by flight or train and measured the distance of each country from Chelsea and in relation to each other. For example, the distance from HK to London is 5995 miles, whereas from Turkey to London it is 1764 miles, therefore the string we used to represent the distance from HK to London is 5 times longer than the string used to represent the distance between Turkey and London. At the end of each string we attached an object we brought in that represents our country.

I really enjoyed working on this installation as it involves actually having to move around the studio, thinking about ideas and ways of representation as a group and making use of objects and spaces in the area. 

We then had to draw the installation we created onto an A1 piece of paper, which was folded 8 times. In each square is a drawing of the same installation but from different perspectives, scale and distance, although each of these squares have to link with the next one. 

I thought this was a really good way of drawing because it encourages studying different aspects of the installation instead of focusing on one viewpoint, in result the drawing looks quite 3 dimensional itself.

Rachel Whiteread at Tate Britain

Rachel Whiteread is known for her sculptural casts of the spaces in or around familiar domestic objects. This exhibition presents her equally important work that lead up to these sculptural casts - her initial drawings and sketches of ideas. By looking at these drawings, we are more able to understand the thoughts and experimentation of an artist, at the same time explore many of the themes that are shared: notions of absence and loss, void and precense, and the subtle observation of human traces in everyday life. 

These drawings also contribute to what we are studying at the moment as we can study the use of perspective, space, composition and architectural features. These are some of the drawings presented at the exhibition that I found quite interesting.