Works.: Cotton Crowds

'Medlock Mill was built in the 19th Century as a cotton mill, eventually bought by printers Percy Brothers, it was renamed Hotspur House, after the brother’s ancestral connections to Harry Hotspur. It operated as a print finishing factory under the current owner’s direction right up until 2011. It is now undergoing an organic redevelopment into cutting edge creative space for artists and makers. '

Old School/New School

Intentions

To combine past and present Manchester, the Cotton Industry and city center crowds.
Mixed media, cotton being a large influence
Relevant artists

Capturing the present

Google search '

Once a thriving industry with busy Mills. I am going to link this with the current busyness of Manchester

Collecting and making things that represent the 'Google Maps' destination shape

These photographs show the idea of being inside a crowd. The balloons represent people as well as the teardrop shape.

Cornelia Parker

Parker's aim with her installations is to take something that we know to be volatile and strong and changes it's form to become something quiet that we can admire and think about. However, it's not the meaning behind her work that has influenced my practice, it's the aesthetics. She takes multiples of things and arranges them in a cluster, like 'Cold Dark Matter' (below). I like the way she has collected all of these individual pieces into one big crowd. The lighting allows the objects to be reflected onto the walls and ceiling. I feel this gives the idea that there are more objects and makes the installation larger.

http://www.frithstreetgallery.com/artists/works/cornelia_parker

Image of: Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View

'Cold Dark Matter: an exploded view'

I am going to consider the use of lighting in my final piece and hope that I can achieve the same effect as Cornelia Parker. I intend to create the idea of a crowd but if the lighting is used correctly, I could give the illusion that the crowd is bigger.

'Mass- Cold Dark Matter' 1997

http://butdoesitfloat.com/filter/cornelia-parker

'Chalk Installation'

At this stage, my work is too regimented and even though it demonstrates multiples and crowds of things, it doesn't really fit to the 'crowd' I am trying to portray. My work needs to be busier and more cluttered to give the idea of being in a crowd that gives the hectic atmosphere of a crowd of people whilst responding to the cotton industry.

This is what I made

Berndnaut Smilde

Lives and works in Amsterdam. Achieved an MA in Fine Art.' In his latest project, he’s installed real Nimbus clouds in empty gallery spaces in Amsterdam.'

Smilde measures the temperatures in a space and when the humidity is perfect, he blasts a spray of fog into the room which creates a 'cottony cloud'. This could only lasts for a few seconds and then collapses. The clouds form differently every time, just like the ones we know outside rather than in.