Skeletons

Over the last two weeks I've explored some of London's more morbid museums in search of bones. I'd recommend the Hunterian Museum for anybody interested in human anatomy, the Horniman Museum for animal anatomy and the Wellcome Collection's permanent exhibition for non-anatomical medical curiousities. I'm planning on visiting the Natural History Museum in the new year.

Yesterday I took a break from drawing in favour of a papercraft project from Skull-A-Day.



The lower jaw can be opened and closed, but unfortunately it doesn't quite move smoothly enough.

I'm actually a bit bored of human skulls; they're everywhere at the moment. I'd like to see more spines and rib cages!

Graffiti

These photos were all taken on Leake Street, a street near Waterloo station that connects York Road with Lower Marsh. Most of Leake Street is a tunnel that runs underneath the railway line. This tunnel is a "designated graffiti area", where people can paint without any risk of arrest.

Holiday homework

We've all been asked to choose a theme to base our spring term work on and to research and develop this theme over the Christmas break.

My theme?

Graffiti

Constructed Textiles

The brief for our constructed textiles module was to create a piece based on the sketches we made during our visit to Kew Gardens at the start of term. The piece had to be made on a female mannequin, but did not necessarily have to be an item of clothing.

Here are some of the final pieces:

Lousie Bourgeois: The Fabric Works at Hauser & Wirth

Entry: Free

This was the first time I'd been to Hauser & Wirth London and I spent some time wandering around and puzzling over the fact that the works that I'd seen on promotional material for the exhibition weren't on show. For anybody else going to Hauser & Wirth for the first time, don't be like me – find out in advance that Hauser & Wirth has two galleries and they have separate street entrances!

Curatorial Project

3D models made to accompany a presentation. These can be packed flat for easy transportation and as the interiors aren't fixed in place they can be taken out and replaced.








These were made for my curatorial project, a module based around designing an exhibition - where it would be held, what it would contain, why it was being put on, who would attend, and what extra events would accompany it. After six weeks the module ended with everyone presenting their exhibitions to the class along with a 3D model to help illustrate their talk.

This class was unbelievably difficult and involved a huge amount of work in a very short space of time. But at least I learnt how much I like making paper buildings.