Piccinini's studio

Sketchy story boards for animations

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c) The gallery space will reveal a merging of themes explored by Patricia Piccinini and Sidney Nolan.  Two themes that will particularly be explored are nature and man.  These will be revealed through the gallery's contained tranquility, having brought nature within through slits of windows and silhouettes. 

b) Sidney Nolan was an eccentric character, and if not eccentric then enigmatic.  There is a certain uneasiness expressed in much of Nolan's art pieces, with nostalgia and isolation being two characteristics I experience while viewing his works. I thought it would thus be essential for Nolan's studio space to alleviate a sense of isolation and grandeur.  The animation will not reveal all of Nolan's studio but will focus on just one 'room' to hopefully capture the experience of the space.  

a) The key concept to be explored in Piccinini's studio space is confusion or the word 'perplex'.  The 'camera' is to tour around the space at a fast space to create a sense of franticness, going around in circles in an environment that looks the same at all angles.

SketchUp model with flesh

new and 'improved' sketchUp skeleton

Impression

Perplex

The 'impressions' I tried to convey on the top floor of my last model were too superficial.  This new model makes use of the 'indentations' made by each space onto one another, almost like a bunch of boxes were scrunched together around a a ball.

SketchUp model 2 part two

youtube and lava

Material and production methods of artists

Piccinini

Picinini explores the relationship between humanity, technology and nature by challenging her viewers in an imaginative yet realistic manner. In order to create her art Picinini goes through several main processes: first the design, production and then the creation of her work. The early stages of Picinini's work, can be seen in her conventional use of pencil and paper in 'Hector (on carpet)' where her focus on detail is evident. The translation of such detail into 3D is exemplified in "lattice 2000", where the use of synthetic materials such as plastic is purely for the purpose of mimicking 'reality'. Piccinini's art is therefore made to 'shape' reality; her pieces are usually of near to real life size. The production of Picinini's work thus involves detailed dialogue between Picinini as a client to her sculptors. What is then created by Piccinini and is a combination of the efforts of various people.

Nolan

Traditional materials and medium are used by Nolan in an unconventional manner to create distorted and even naive art. The 'Kelly' series by Nolan incorporates this very approach and is clearly of conceptual relevance. While oils are used in the traditional way, with the use of a lean then fat layer, how they are applied is unique. Each brushstroke is almost violently slapped on with a paint brush to effectively blur the boundary between nature and man, or in this case, Ned Kelly and the land. This method repeats through out the series to create images that represent Ned Kelly as the Australian bush icon.

Textures

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between

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Spiral Stair sections (better scans)

Spiral Stair

Heavy Stair sketches

Heavy stair

Another SketchUp model

impression

perplex

SketchUp model with stairs

above: stair sketches