Should've found out who did it...

I remember seeing a film being projected on a flowing large piece of fabric in the Whitworth art gallery. This would be interesting to do myself ...imagine if they the fabric wasnt just a bland piece of fabric but manipulated or painted on already. What effect would this have on the image projected onto it?

Yinka Shonibare - Whitworth Art Gallery

Boy on Globe 4
Commissioned by the Whitworth for the COTTON: Global Threads exhibition Boy on Globe 4 (2011) is a life size, headless boy balanced precariously atop a suspended globe. The child is dressed in Victorian period costume fashioned from Dutch wax batik prints. Synonymous with Shonibare’s work, wax batik fabric is commonly used in African dress, but actually has a complex and culturally diverse history.


Diary of a Victorian Dandy
Flips the roles of the people. The people are in victorian clothes. The black man has the highest status.

Lubaina Himid - culture and race

Lubaina Himid (born 1954 in Zanzibar, Tanzania) is a comptemporary African artist and professor of Comtemporary Art at the University of Central Lancashire. Her art focuses on themes of cultural history and reclaiming identities. She was one of the first artists involved in the Black Art movement in the 1980s and continues to create activist art which is shown in galleries in Britain as well as worldwide.

Uncomfortable Truths

Tom Dixon - bold colourful lights

The Tom Dixon brand is as individual as the man himself. Tom was born in Sfax, Tunisia in 1959 to a French/Latvian mother and an English father, the Dixon family moved to the UK when Tom was aged 4.
With no formal training other than a one-day course in plastic bumper repair, Dixon explored the decorative and structural potential of recycled materials and industrial scrap using his newly acquired welding skills. Dixon’s sculptural objects soon began to gain recognition and commissions and exhibitions followed.

Jack Light Fluoro
The award winning ‘sitting, stacking, lighting thing’. The Jack Light by Tom Dixon is a multi-functional object made from plastic and uses the process of rotary moulding.

Read somewhere near this that for colours to stand out they need to be simple. If there are a lot of colours in a complex pattern, they wont stand out as much.

Sam Bough - landscapes

Sam Bough (born in carlisle, in 1822 -1878) was an English-born landscape painter who spent much of his career working in Scotland.

Michael Craig-Martin bold colourful

Michael Craig-Martin (born in Dublin 28 August 1941) is a comtemporary conceptual artist and painter.
His later works have used a stylised drawing technique often depicting everyday household objects and sometimes incorporating art references, such as objects known from their use in Dada artworks. His work can be compared to that of his earlier comtemporary Patrick Caulfield and latterly with that of Julian Opie.

Eye of the Storm 2002


The use of bold typography

Art RED

Patrick Caulfield - contrast. Bold colourful

Patrick Caulfield (29th January 1936  - 29th September 2005) was an English painter and prinkmaker known for his bold canvases which often incorporated elements of photorealism with a pared down scene (great contrast).

After Lunch 1975

Manchester trip research

These are the list of names and ideas that I wrote down in my sketch book from going on the research trip to manchester going in the different museums and galleries:

Patrick Caulfield

Michael Craig-Martin

Samuel Bough

Tom Dixon – Jack Lights

Lubaima Himid

Projecting images on to fabric. Manipulated fabric?