Kate Gilmore

Kate Gilmore (born 1975) is an artist who work with clay.   She explore the relationship between human bodies and material. I thought this area has been  explored by many artists  1960's and 1970's. However, her work looks innovative and novel expression. The point of her work is all performer in her video work is female and they wear  feminine dresses.   She add new element "feminine" to old theme that is the relationship  between human bodies and material. 

Repetition Throwing Tomato

I thought a lot of artist have explored the relationship between human bodies and materials. I thought have to add new element to my project. Sigmar Polke used potatoes as material to make sculpture. 

                            Sigmar Polke

Sigmar Polke

Oscar said he felt a kind of irony from my works and it looks like attacking traditional ceramics. I  tried to made works that looked like attacking ceramics.  I chose tomato, because sometimes tomato looks violence and throwing tomato has a lot of cultural meaning. 

However, this work is very complicated. Adding another element to my project might make my works unclear. I have to think about main point of my works.

La Tomatina

Breaking pots Mouth

I started to make new series, I forms big bowls by tearing it by my mouth.  

○To explore the novel relationship between human bodies and clay in the making process.

○To explore new method of forming clay by human bodies.

Visiting Artist Studio -Barnaby Barford Studio-

I visited the Barnaby Barford Studio. He works primarily with ceramics to create unique narrative pieces drawing an ironic portrait of our contemporary lives. 

Aim

○To investigate how an artist operate the studio.

○To interview his context and the relationship between his practice and the context.

○To interview his career as an artist and how he get chance to exhibit his work at Dvid Gill gallery.

○To think about my future and strategy through the studio visit.

He worked hardly  with his assistant in his studio. He is making a lot of works for museums and his new exhibition. Visiting his studio was very good experience for me, because he is working with ceramics.  I made a list that I have to do in the future through the studio visit.

○To visit famous gallery's to get community of artists or gallerists.

○To make outstanding works. then send portfolio to galleries to have a exhibition. Making is fast!!

Yves Klein Naked body, Art

Yves Klein(1928-1962) was a French artist. He was a pioneer of performance art by using human body.  He painted by using naked woman body and show it as performance art. In this series, scale and shape of painting were influenced by human body. It relate to my project significantly.  The important point of his concept is that he explored beautiful trace of human body and using naked body  realised us it. He showed us the relationship between human body and making process of art.

This is my sketch for my next works.  I am going to try performance art and photograph work by using clay and naked model. Now the concept is not clear, but it is clear that it relate to my project strongly.  

I need to look for a studio and models for this work.

Size Change

    I made bigger sculpture by the same concept and method. Because I thought my sculptures were too small for the exhibition space in the last interim show.  Making big ceramics is difficult technically and it tend to be too small for gallery spaces. Making bigger one makes my concept of repetition clear.

Interim Show 2014

I showed some ceramic pieces and a movie of making process in the interim show. I got a lot of opinion from viewers. 

○ Three sculptures are too small for the exhibition space. I am going to make bigger one, it would get stronger attention.

○Video work -  video work is very good way to show my making process, however viewer forces on only it and ceramics looks like support objects.  It is the one of the good presentation, but  I am going to consider the balance of ceramic and video works. I would like to try show photos of making process and ceramic work in the next show.