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| Editorial work by Laura Carlin |
I like the way she has included bits of collage in this piece, the way her ~visual language~ puts the piece into historical context. There are no captions (that I can see!) on her website but, from what I can gather this is a piece about the history of Southern West Africa. I like the muted colours and the quite sloppy lines.
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Ceramics piece by Laura Carlin
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I really admire the way Laura paints her ceramics. It's the part I find hardest, it's difficult to predict how things will turn out. You have to be quite precise too! She has managed to keep fairly clean lines and shapes without compromising her distinctive way of drawing.
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'Walking Figure' 2004 by Donald Baechler
Cast bronze |
I love this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's very Mary Kingsley, striding across West Africa. I love the shape, I love the texture (it looks like wet clay!), and I love the size of it - over 3m!
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| Screen Printed book by Marion Jdanoff |
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| Screen printed book by Marion Jdanoff |
I like how Marion used blocks of colour to tell the story of this journey. Her way of drawing is very simple, but like, just because something is simple it doesn't make it easier to understand. Simplifying something is usually an annoying thing artists do when they want their work to be more complicated. 'Ooh I removed the woman's face - what does it mean?' Anyway, Marion isn't doing that. She uses exactly the amount of detail she needs. I like it.
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