BILL RILEY

This week we had Bill Riley as our lecture, Bill Riley is a painter and has been painting for over 30 years now. His process varies and depends on how he feels. He stated that it gets boring, at times, which leads him to use different painting tools and experiment.

Bill is also interested in the static nature of a painting. Frequency is an instillation that explores how we perceive colour and movement within painting. Bill used a CMYK mixing system. “The CMYK colour process is a subtracting colour model, used in colour printing, and is also used to describe the printing process itself. CMYK refers to the four inks used in some colour printing; Cyan, magenta, yellow and black” – Web Definitions. He used the CMYK process to see the way people perceive colour.

Bill talked about the influence of documentary films about famous artists such as Jackson Pollock and Pablo Picasso, and the way the artists seemed to be ‘puppets’ in these films, which were supposed to celebrate and explain their practice. Bill related to this idea of from his bad experience as a commissioner, where the people who fund it take the freedom of the artist away. Bill has since become a socialist. Bill describes a socialist as “not a communist, it is more about treating people equally”. This lead him to his more recent project called The 422 project”

The 422 project is Bills new focus, using recycled and waste materials, rather than expensive fine art materials. He collects left over card from packaging companies, and left over paint. By doing so he touches on conservational Issues such as recycling. Bill paints each individual piece of card and arranges them in stacks. The 422 project is interactive and members of the public are encouraged to come into the gallery and arrange the coloured sheets of card in what ever way they want. By doing so, this portrays painting as a form of sculptural practise in some way. Overall I thought his lecture about was all right could of at least brought in some of his works his did to show our class but allgoods.

Richard Orjis

I got to class late to find out that we had Richard Orjis as our lecture for today, when I got into class, it was already 10 minutes into the lesson, where he was explaining to the class his first pieces of work and so as I soon as I found a spot to sit at next to Katie Lamacraft, he then started taking us through his photography images he took and what was behind his images. I personally think that he took some awesome photographs and I thought that he had some amazing ideas that had a lot to do with beauty and nature, and he even mentioned it numerous times throughout the lecture. So Richard Orji’s blog question for that week was that we all had to choose 3 words from Richard Orjis lecture. The 3 words I choose to describe and relate back to Richard Orji’s practice is beauty, nature and links. So before I start talking about his work, I’d like to take the chance to talk more first about Richard Orji’s background. Orjis was born in Whanganui, New Zealand and studied at the Auckland Uniersity of Technology and Carnegie Mellon Uniresity, Pittsburgh earing a BVA in 2001, and graduating with an MFA from The Elam School of Fine Art, (University of Auckland) in 2006. Richard Orji’s work looked more into beauty/nature, in the lecture he also showed us a video of him making up his own cult.his works were all based around on religion, Richard quoted ‘I really like that idea I am connected with everything around me’, and one thing Orjis mentioned in the lecture is that he said he doesn’t believe in modernism, he also stated that ‘we are always connect to something else’… God, bible, tree huggers, burning tree. By looking at his work I’ve noticed that all of his work all link up in way that it’s a like repetition, his works repeat constantly that it all looking the same to me. Overall his lecture was pretty good.

Steve Rood

Unfortunately I wasn’t there at Steve Rood’s lecture that Tuesday due to being ill, but I had the chance to ask some of my peers like Alli and Brittany about what Steve Roods lecture was all about and how he was really interested in technology and as well as photography. I was told by Brittany to go look on google to search up his work on his website, so I did just that and so I went on his website, saw his images and I thought it was awesome. Listening to what the girls had to say about him, they each said to me the same thing about how that I missed out on a great lecture about Steve Rood’s work, which I have already regretted, they also mention that the lecture he did that Tuesday was funny and that he’s an ideas-man quoted by Brittany. When I viewed his website, I knew his photos and images looked more in the line to do with advertising and marketing for me, I heard a little bit about his background from other students that he started out with a passion for film making, and then he somehow ended up in the photography industry in Milan, but he wanted to study more so he than went to Holland to get educated and he later went on to become a advertiser in photography. But then found out that he wasn’t really interested in doing that, and he also did work as an art director.