Steve Lovett

Blog question:How has Steve Lovett's practice evolved over the period of his professional career?

For this week we had one of my favorite lecturers Steve Lovett come in to give us a presentation on his artworks and art practices. Although i did not attend that weeks lecture i had help from Alli who helped and explain in detail what had happened on tuesday and also gave me her notes to look at. For me personally i find steve's art and practices reallyinteresting because first of all how he is currently my drawing lecture for this semester.

Also because i know he has a great knowledge of art and artists and so i was very excited to see how Steve expresses and shows us the definition of what he calls Art.

In his first slide during his lecture wich Steve titles "what do i do when im not here"he talks about the concept of the passing of time, the transition and the loss of time. he talks about how printed images are the idea's he works around. And to him thats the idea of developing an understanding of the world, in this slide of art works Steve shows me that he has a lot of contemporary portrait work in his arwork that to me shows that steve has interests with identity

For this artwork (mother and daughter what can we say 1997), I really like that idea of how we only know ourselves through second person, and through our dialogues and interaction through our friends, lovers, families, and colleagues is an interesting concept. This artwork for me seemed to give that feeling of wanting and dealing with these feelings.

but coming back to the question i couldnt really answer it because i didn't attend the lecture that day and i wasnt really sure. but by looking at emit i found that steve began to use a more formal art convention rather than political style of work he began out with. Like with this image i think that he uses a different style of technique like for example the holes in the image, to me this give's that kind of 3 dimensional look to it. but i like the way hes used space the colour and its form.

Francis Hansen

Blog question-choose at least two things from francis hanson process list and explore in reletion to her practices



Last tuesday we had my drawing lecturer from last semester Francis Hansen come in and talk about herself her family and her art practices.She talks about how she tries to balance her life as an artist azwell as being a mother and how she combines her ideas around her surroundings with her family and her major.she talks about her 4 steps in her process of art making,and in each of these steps she has these list of methods.

I also really liked the idea of how she uses the gathering, composing and experimenting to her advantage for her ideas and art practices.during the lecture francis talks about how she has a passion for collecting objects,she like's to collect objects that she finds she can work with. wether she likes the shape of its form, the look of it or simply for material's use.the thing i find interesting about francis hansen's work is that she is very creative and original. I like the idea of her recycle use of materials aswell.She talk's about how she bases her work around the things that take place around her every day life.

I like the way she also tries to present her work in relation to where she is going to display them. and again i find that very original.Overall i didn,t really enjoy the style of her artwork but i like the idea of how she uses recycling to create her work.

Eldon Booth

Blog Question:Discuss Eldon Booths exploration of reality and illusion



This weeks topic was on moving image by Eldon Booth.this was my first time meeting Eldon on tuesday's class. because i had never done moving image before i found it really interesting to have Eldon Lecture us and how he began as an art student at M.s.v.a where we are now.Eldon talks about how he has a love for writing scripts, and how he dedicates his work on his interests of the idea in the difference between 'reality and fictionIn the Lecture i found Eldon very interesting to listen to, He talked about how he Graduated from M.s.v.a in 1999 and for me I find that cool because it gave me an idea of where my life could lead to with this course and How interesting the things i could do with a degree in B.v.a at the manukau school of visual arts, and also if he can do it than i can. In the lecture he showed us two of his short films that showed us the idea of reality and illusion for the veiwer



The first film he showed us was "Extract from Withdrawl".I really liked the idea of how he used family members as his cast for the short film instead of using hired actors. to me that was a good idea bacause he didn't have to waste any money on hired actors and would also be more comfortable being aruond family than people u don't no.In the film you see how the time slowly going on and on and you start to see the actors age, starting form the beginning is a young teenager(brother) who is seen smoking drugs, hanging out with his friends and also seen catching the train and then how it shows an old man (Grandfather) who is seen lying in the hospital bed.I liked how he uses split screen to show the two different timelines in the day and show the copmarison of the Grandson and Grandfather.He also talked about how he used the 'Amateure' style of filming using natural sound/music and the following behind them filming.much like a documentary where the veiwer is in the place of the camera and to also get to know both charaters through there actions.



For the second short-film he made a drama/documentary style of film. In the lecture during this film he talked about how a documentary on 20/20 inspired him for his style of this documentary. he talks about how he really liked the camera angles, sound and lighting that was used in that documentary and had decided to use similar ideas for his short film .but overall i like his work and find moving image very interesting

Dion Hitchens

On Tuesday we had Dion Hitchens come in to our class to show us and explain his art work and practices. Although he was only in class for an hour, one of his artworks that I found really interesting was the maunga artwork that is displayed in Manukau. He talked about how he had built the monument in his back yard making it out of stainless steel and had to use a crane to move it from his backyard to Manukau. The thing that I find interesting about that particular piece of artwork is that I’ve always known about the sculpture and I always see it at Manukau every time I’m there but now I actually no who created it “Dion Hitchens” and it amazes me because he is currently my lecture for sculpture and so every time i see him i no that he created this sculpture. He talked about how the image of his sculpture was inspired by this mountain in Tahiti called maunga and also how Auckland city is where the largest population of Polynesians Live, and so now not only do I no who created it but I also no about the significance backround of why this sculpture had being created the way that it was.

Being Maori /Asian he talked about how his practices are based around his culture. also in one of his artworks he says that even though he loves his Maori culture and background his religious faith comes from his Asian descent being of Buddhist faith.

For collaberation one of his artworks that I also found interesting was the “Tiki Wanaga” which was a sculpture that is currently hung up at the Onehunga community centre and library. For this artwork he collaborated with Charles Koroneho , Each piece of Sculpture is made from aluminium and lashed with fibreoptic cable that lights up in blue and white. His sculpture was inspired by traditional Maori objects used by Priests to obtain Knowledge, it also represented the combination of traditional Maori art and new technologies