Grade 12 Nursery Rhymes: Inspiring artists

http://vaughan-evans.co.za/exhibition/early_learning_fairy_tales_and_urban_myths.htm



Bronwen Vaughan Evans Early learning: Fairy tales and urban myths

ArtSpace Durban, South Africa
2010
EARLY LEARNING (fairy-tales and urban myths)


This body of work explores the notion of fairytales in a contemporary and playful way. Using personal childhood photographs and patterns from early readers I have reconstructed stories and myths from my childhood. These works are intentionally illustrative, but do not follow a linear narrative, instead we see real world imagery merging with storybook fantasy to form a slightly surreal series of works.


I would like to credit the use and incorporation of cover designs from a series of children's books published by Dent Dutton in the 1950's.

click here to see the link to artspace review


"Vaughan-Evans’ work is created using a process of layering light gesso on top of darker gesso to create a controlled surface in which the dark layer sits just beneath a thin, light skin and thereby alludes to a metaphorical weight beneath the surface of things. The images reference objects and places from her immediate environment and are created by sanding / etching through the thin top layer to reveal the dark gesso beneath."

http://vaughan-evans.co.za/biography.htm

http://wendysscrappincorner.blogspot.com/2011/06/tutorial-distressed-gesso-background.html
http://pinterest.com/pin/27514247695054111/

You could also experiment with Bronwen Vaughan-Evan's Gesso technique as an experiment.
clip explaining gesso properties

Grade 10: another look at inspirational jewellery

http://bybeadedstory.blogspot.com/2011_02_01_archive.html



http://sistagirlfriend.wordpress.com/



http://bijoucontemporain.unblog.fr/tag/daniela-hedman-se/

http://bijoucontemporain.unblog.fr/tag/galeries/facere/







Chris Giffin ‘Take Measure’Necklace – vintage cloth tape measures, tiny glass vial with fortune enclosed, enameled metal rivets, brass jump rings, chain, clasp
Facere Jewelry Art Gallery
1420 Fifth Ave, 108
WA 98101 – Seattle
United States
Telephone: 206/624-6768
Fax: 206/624-2852
website: www.facerejewelryart.com
mail: facereart@aol.com





http://bijoucontemporain.unblog.fr/category/createurs/charlotte-daffern/

Artists Books: check out Cheryl Penn's website if you are interested in this technique

THE READING ROOM: ARTISTS’ BOOKS
Artist: Cheryl Penn
KZNSA Gallery

Night Crossing


Link to Cheryl Penn's site

grade 10's check out Amy-Jo's figures:-)

http://amy-jowindt.blogspot.com/ 

Battery Low

Battery Low, Naude, winner of the Red Kznsa Members exhibition
http://www.nsagallery.co.za/exhibitions/items/106/106_XHIyFR6g.jpg

for Nobhule :-)

some more interesting artists for my matrics

http://www.artthrob.co.za/04may/listings_kzn.html#nsa2
'One Zero One' by Bronwen Vaughan-Evans at the NSA Mezzanine Gallery
Bronwen Vaughan-Evans will be presenting an exhibition of detailed small works (each measuring 13cm X 13cm) making up large-scale composite pieces. Each panel is intensely detailed and laboured and each has an iconic feel, incorporating everyday images from the artists` environment and life history. They are also, to an extent, an investigation into the nature of nationality and identity as well as reference to childhood memories, which are often visual rather than verbal.Some of the works are historical, and contain images from junior school textbooks; others make reference to nursery rhymes or resemble pop-art depictions of common South African products. Many of the works include found objects which range from small plastic toys to old badges and emblems that reflect fragments of our past.
Vaughan-Evans' subject matter is chosen almost at random, like a flow of thought in which no single image is more or less significant than any other. Through this, the works acquire the shifting qualities of small flashes of memory and dream.
The title of the exhibition 'One Zero One', refers primarily to the number of small works that make up the composite piece, but also makes reference to binary systems. Each work, like the zeros and the ones that make up the binary code, has an alternating level of significance that is dependant on its position relative to the other works. It is only when the individual digits of binary are grouped together that fluctuating patterns begin to emerge and acquire meaning.
Vaughan-Evans received her Masters of Arts in Fine Art in 1995 from the University of Natal. She has lectured there part time and is also a qualified art teacher. She is currently a full-time artist, and was last year seen on the Brett Kebble Art Awards show in Cape Town. This is her first solo exhibition.
Opens: May 25 at 6pm
Closes: June 13

for Grade 9's and grade 12's exploring memory

Below are some examples of memory road maps 

http://www.nsagallery.co.za/exhibitionimages/location_block_a_thokoza_women_s_hostel.htm

LOCATION - Block A, Thokoza Women’s Hostel

Angela Buckland