For my artist model I choose British born artist Liz West. A graduate from Glasgow School of Art, she covers a broad body of work comprised of site specific installations, sculpture and wall based artwork. Liz West creates vivid environments that mix luminous colour and light. Through this she aims to provoke a heightened sensory... Continue Reading →

As a class we went for a guided tour of the St James Theatre. The theatre was closed to the public in 2007 after an electrical fire and reopened for a final 20 shows in 2016. It has been closed since then due to the rundown state of the building and the potential hazards this... Continue Reading →

After our introduction to group seminars and choosing our research topic in week 2 we got to work answering the list of questions we had been assigned. The questions were designed to get us thinking more in depth about the colour we were researching (for our group it was blue) as we looked into its... Continue Reading →

After choosing our seminar topic on Tuesday we were asked to individually create three small colour models at home in preparation for an exercise in Thursdays class. The models, lettered A, E and U were to explore a different aspect each. A - investigate the interaction of colourE - investigate/analyse an aspect of seminar researchU... Continue Reading →

After a group discussion on our collages we moved onto creating a series of three models that draw from an aspect of our collage. I found it slightly difficult to know where to begin with this, I think I was focussing on trying to make something too literal instead of just letting myself create whatever.... Continue Reading →

To start off the new semester we started by taking a walk from the WM building down to the Saint James Theatre which is the site for this brief. As we were walking we were asked to observe colour in the city. This can be in many forms such as integral, applied or embedded colour,... Continue Reading →