Creative Artists

Here are four creative artists that look at memory they  all look at the process of recreating memories from a existing one. 

Debbie Smyth: Inspired by memories

Textile artist Debbie Smyth is best known for her large-scale thread drawings which beautifully blur 2D and 3D work.Smyth's work is inspired by memories she records events and photographs situations for which then she can use to bring this memory back to life in a new piece of art not only recreating the memory but also giving the the memory a new dimension in a new form. For example the this image above is to do with her mother as she was the person who taught her sew.This is similar to my project as it is looking at recreating an existing memory in new art form for Smyth it is sewing for me it is watercolour.

Jamie Diamond "I Promise To Be A Good Mother"

Diamond spent hours documenting her own relationship with her mum, she also created rule sheets for her future-self reference so she could be a good mother to future child.She documented her relationship with her mother and rule sheet in a diary which is used  as her inspiration for her own project.the project was recreated by  staging and reenacting her own childhood memories.Diamond went a far as dressing in her mum's clothes and carrying a doll.She wanted to explore the complexities surrounding the idea of mother/child relationship and whether what her mother did when she was young would be acceptable now or would this not be appropriate. Her project recreates filmic images from diary entires which is recreating and progressing a memory into a different form. This is similar element to my project as i am progressing a memory from one form to another.

Patricia Casey -Memory, imagination and dreams

Casey combines photography on fabric with embroidery details to create ethereal work that centres on the themes of memory, dreams and imagination.The textile elements of Casey's work is taken from her mother and an elderly neighbour who taught her how to sew and crochet. This gives her work s sentimental and personal element. Her aim of her work is to transforms an ordinary portraiture styled image into a treasured object by embroidering on to the image giving the image another dimension an another meaning.This similar to what i want to create as i am transforming a treasured photo of place into another form of media which is a watercolour. The watercolour element has personal element to me as my grandma does it so we have similar aesthetic and motive for work.

Chiharu Shiota-‘The Key in the Hand’

The piece was first shown at the Venice Biennial, this body of work is about memory. At first i thought this was an installation of Japanese tree over a boat, but the tree is actually thread with keys attached to it. The composition of  keys hanging from threads were collected from thousands of people around the world. Therefore, each key holds memories of the individual who had that key.Shiota Said that “Keys are familiar and very valuable things that protect important people and spaces in our lives,”Sierzputowski, K. (2015). installation Artist Chiharu Shiota Casts a Tangled Web of Thread and Keys at This Year’s Venice Art Biennale. The concept of being able to look at keys from different parts of the globe gives us incite into unknown worlds.There is element of mystery to this piece as you don't know what where the key is been who used it ? what that person was like? This idea of not knowing what the key was used for gives the audience the chance to create a their own opinion on what it was used for. I want to create a watercolour piece based on photo of which means something to someone but when the watercolour is finished this could create different opinions and memories for the audience.