Folkert de Jong

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/folkert_dejong.htm

http://www.folkertdejong.org/

Really cannot be bothered with Blogger!

It has taken my hours just to research & get my research onto to Blogger because its decided to be as difficult as possible & I've only done two!
So from now i will only add the links to the my blog
and get the relevant information later on when its not being stupid :)

Grayson Perry

Grayson Perry was born in Chelmsford, Essex on 24 March 1960. When he was 6 - 7, his father left the family because of his mother's adultery. Perry describes his father's departure as the event that had the largest impact on him in his life. He lived with his mother, his stepfather, a younger sister and two stepbrothers.

To escape from a difficult family situation and his stepfather's violence, he retreated to his bedroom or his father’s shed where he became absorbed in a fantasy life, sometimes involving a teddy bear that had become a “surrogate father figure”.

He did an art foundation course at Braintree College of Further Education from 1978 to 1979. He studied for a BA in Fine Art at Portsmouth Polytechnic, graduating in 1982. He had an interest in film and exhibited his first piece of pottery at the "New Contemporaries" show at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in 1980

In his work Perry reflects upon his upbringing as a boy, his stepfather's anger and the absence of proper guidance about male conduct.

Much of Perry's work contains sexually explicit content. He also has a reputation for depicting child abuse and yet there are no works depicting sexual child abuse although We've Found the Body of your Child, 2000 hints at emotional child abuse and child neglect.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grayson_Perry
Although I got this from Wikipedia which is unreliable, I made sure to check the sources!

Yinka Shonibare

Yinka Shonibare, MBE was born in London and moved to Nigeria at the age of three.

He returned to London to study Fine Art first at Byam Shaw College of Art and then at Goldsmiths College, where he received his MFA, graduating as part of the ‘Young British Artists’ generation. He currently lives and works in the East End of London.

Shonibare explores colonialism and post-colonialism within the contemporary context of globalisation. His work also explores race and class, through the media of painting, sculpture, photography and, more recently, film and performance.

Shonibare examines identity and the interrelationship between Africa and Europe and their respective economic and political histories.  Mixing Western art history and literature, he asks what constitutes our collective contemporary identity today. Having described himself as a ‘post-colonial’ hybrid, Shonibare questions the meaning of cultural and national definitions.

More detail on the Yinka Shonibare Website:

http://www.yinkashonibarembe.com/

Research for 3D

Before Wednesday...
In depth, do background research into these artists:

• Yinka Shonibare
• Grayson Perry
• Folkert de Jong
• Rebecca Warren
• Cornelia Parker
• Haroon Mirza

Whyyyyyy....?

I cannot find my reflective practice book!!
I dunno where its gone. So annoyed! I'll have to write it all up again, using the notes i made before. Thank god, i made those rough notes for each lesson! Though I bet after writing it all up again, i'll find it. Hidden away right in front of me...
Re-doing it now before assessment :)

3D

In 3D i have decided to go with either the decorative pen/pencil holder or the straw holder/storer & dispenser. I'll need to do research into other penncil holders and dispensers in general but in particular, straw dispensers.

MACS

Macs ...i'd never used them before. I didn't even know how to turn them on! Haha But now I'm  happy to say that i'm slowly starting to get the hang of them. Before i was totally hopeless with them and now i can actually do something! YAY!
Anyway, I hope i continue to progress with my ability to use them ...otherwise I'm fucked!