Sadie Rogerson Portfolio

SADIE ROGERSON

ENTRY P R O J E C T :

I began my work on the entry project first of all by researching concepts and artists. I wanted to interpret the theme of recycling using memories and ideas from the past and present. I arrived at this idea by researching social cycle theory which explains how stages of society repeat themselves in cycles through trends in culture and politics. I had two separate ideas that related to the theme of recycling ideas old and new, one was to deconstruct and alter old, traditional paintings and artefacts, the other was t use this concept on a more personal level by using work I had made as a child as inspiration now- therefore recycling my own ideas and memories.

My first idea for the recycling project was to explore the recycling of ideas in traditional art and explore the theme of authenticity. I wanted to do this by painting over old paintings by Goya and Constable. I experimented by blocking out and removing areas of paint in order to highlight certain elements of the paintings. I also really wanted to experiment with brighter colours to make the images more contemporary.

I then decided to try to convey this idea in a sculpture. For this I used a traditional bowl and painted over the image in different layers. I then scratched off certain areas of paint to create different textures.

I also wanted to explore the theme of deconstruction and rearrangement with these paintings.

To follow the deconstruction theme, I experimented with sculpture.

F I N A L A RT E FA C T

For my final artefact, I decided I wanted to take the idea of old and new recycling of ideas, but with my own childhood painting. I didn’t want to create an exact replica of these paintings, but was inspired by the colours and shapes I had been drawn to as a child. I planned to make this out of a selection of recycled objects, in particular some of my objects are parts of children’s toys. As well as this, I wanted to directly take some of the shapes I had used as child- for example the record reminded me of the blue painting above.

SADIE ROGERSON

PORTFOLIO:

This was a project I did on movement, I took these photos from a moving car using long exposure photography. I was influenced by the artist Uta Barth to create this blurred/abstract eect.

My first developments for this project were photoshop arrangements, I layered stills of cars passing from a bridge above where I had taken the long exposure pictures. I then changed the opacity and dierence of the photos. This was to explore the dierent perspectives of movement.

The next set of development work that I did was by adding texture and sketches onto the photos I had taken. I did this by transferring my images onto tracing paper and perspex and then working on top of and under the images using pen sketches and sections of paper collages. This was to experiment with layering and texture, I wanted to build upon the layering I had used in photoshop.

The next set of development work that I did was a set of paintings, in which I used acrylic paint. I wanted to create a blurred eect within my paintings and decided to use muted colours to show the trails of light in my pictures. I then began adding texture to my paintings- here I have painted and attached wood to my painting.

For my final piece of this project, I did another painting of the view from a moving car. Ideally, I had wanted to continue my experiments with adding texture- I had envisaged doing a textural piece with glass layers but because of COVID this was not doable. This piece was exhibited as part of the HOME Manchester Open last winter before lockdown.

These photos were taken as a starting point for a project with the tittle “Environments” I used a DSLR camera. For this project I wanted to explore the mundanity of “forgotten spaces”- especially in areas of redevelopment and gentrification. Some of these pictures are from Angel Meadows in Manchester- this is a site with ongoing redevelopment, it was really interesting to explore the history of this area and how this had been taken over by tower blocks.

The second set of photos I took were more focused on found objects- objects that had been left in the environments I was exploring. I also wanted to have this set of photos in colour, I had looked at the online archives of Manchester in the 60s from the Manchester Modernist Society- this gave me the idea to give these photos a vintage/film feel.

The next stage of my project was to make analytical drawings of the photos I had taken. These photos in particular were from a local abandoned fire station which has since been demolished and the other is from the rooftop of the Mayfield Depot in central Manchester.

My analytical drawings for this project were done using pen and I chose to include some areas of white space to convey the abandoned locations

For my next stage of development in this project I made paintings by covering paper with ink and then removing it using bleach. I really liked the eect that this gave my work and then later added image transfers of my photos. I wanted to use image transfers because I had researched Robert Rauschenberg in another project.

For this development I did an abstract painting which i scanned and then layered my photos on top of using photoshop.

This was a critical link I made for the artist Gerd Winner who looks at similar “forgotten space”. This also inspired me to experiment more with texture within my painting, as I had to think carefully about how to create these effects with paint.

My next developments were a set of acrylic paintings- for these developments in particular I wanted to focus on the introduction of tower blocks into the city and the remnants of nature that were left in these areas. I also made some prints using a drypoint perspex plate, for the one above I rolled over the plate with a mix of inks to add colour

My next stage of development was to explore the textures of my photos and environments. For this I experimented with painting on bark and with using pollyfilla to create a plaster texture which I had seen in some of the abandoned areas I had explored with my photos.

For another project exploring natural forms, I wanted to explore more experimental drawings.

Both the drawings were timed from observation. For the second drawing I explored using colour with my drawings and adding other layers to my work.

These are two boards (analytical and development) for a project I worked on. The starting point for this project was a list of words: spinning, pinning, sitting and turning. My initial ideas were based on a visit to MOSI in Manchester where I took some photos of mechanical objects. Inspired by this, I then made two sculptures using wooden sticks and paper. I then took pictures and did drawings based on these sculptures. I then made mono prints of these sculptures and developed my work through image transfers, sewing, photoshop arrangements and then experimented with colour mono-prints.

This was an artist research page I did inspired by a visit to the Yorkshire Sculpture park- in particular a sculpture by the artist Giuseppe Penone.

This is an artist research page inspired

by Alice Kettle. Kettle makes large scale tapestries, she makes these in collaboration with refugees to help tell their stories. I saw the tapestries at the Whitworth and was really inspired by the use of materials for example Kettle’s use of life jacket material.

This artist research page was inspired by a piece of video art I saw at the gallery of modern art in Glasgow. The piece was called “the way things go” and explored themes of timing and effect- in the video one event sparks all of the others. This was a collaboration piece by Peter Fischli and David Weiss.

This was a collaborative project I was involved with in my college. I was the art director for the college art collectives 2020 publication about climate change. For this I designed the layout of the text and illustrations by other students in the publication (see photos at the beneath).

I also contributed to the illustrations as well for this project- I chose to do work with collage, to recycle old newspapers and magazines.