Dockyard evaluation

May 26, 2010 Zoe Pease

I have completed my project on The Historic Dockyard. I have researched a variety of artists and gained influences from many different sources.

While researching the Historic dockyard I was most interested in the history of the ships, as I liked the idea that the ships we were on, and looking around, were once at sea with sailors on protecting our country. When using the dockyard in my work I decided to use in my in the form of feelings and dreams of the sailors, because while we were walking round, we had feelings and thoughts of how hard it may have been for the sailors. So I based my work on the dreams and feelings of sailors.

 I had inspiration from artists such as Jasmine Beckett-Griffith, Banksy and Tansy Myer, from other artists when visiting museums and from family and friends. I was interested in my influences because they gave me ideas and helped me developed my ideas further; I used my inspirations within my work as main ideas and developed ideas.

My initial ideas where based around the sub-conscious mind, such as feelings, dreams and thoughts, I started off by looking at childhood feelings and dreams then later progressed to sailors in the history of the dockyard. I then decided to use sailors and there feelings, dreams, thoughts ECT as my final idea as it links very well to the Dockyard.

My Ideas and influences made it quiet hard to put my proposal together at first as I didn’t know clearly how I got from one idea to another. When I figured how my ideas flowed and my proposal came together easily. My proposal highlighted my strengths and weaknesses too, while writing it I found I had many ideas but wasn’t clear how I got them and I didn’t link my work well. Highlighting these things helped me link my work and improve it all round.

We had to present our work to an audience at The Historic Dockyard; I wasn’t comfortable presenting my work in front of people so I made a film of me presenting my work. It included me talking about my work with a slide show of it.

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