Glasgow School of Art - just want you to know were thinking of you in Lincoln.

Seen as my final year show is on the fast approach, I thought it was important to say my thoughts go out to those at Glasgow school of Art.

After spending the three years myself here studying and preparing for my own final show. For something like a fire to start and destroy everything right at the end must be devastating to see. I hear that 90% of the building is described viable and the fire fighters have also saved 70% of its contents. I hope some of the students work is within that percentage. Hearing no one was hurt is a relief, I suspect it probably didn't mean much at first whilst it was all happening.

Now I think there will be a lot of relief knowing that things weren't much worse, I know I am relived that people weren't hurt in the process of setting up for there end of show. I just hope the process after this has happens is an easy one for these student's, and there University does all it can to help them get the grades they deserve.

I think its also important to thank the fire fighters at times like this, as it just shows that there job is an important and difficult one. Doing there job and trying to prevent this fire cause any further damage to this historic building, whilst trying to save its important contents couldn't have been an easy one. So well done to them.

Projecting Light and Mark Making (Contains Flashing Images)

'Projecting Light and Mark Making

Here are a couple more Gif's I made recently using the images from the 'Project Light and Mark Making' Workshop. I had some more images that I hadn't looked through fully after the elective finished. After going back through them the other day I managed to pick out a few more that would work together to make some new Gif's.

'White Lines,' (2014)
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'Triangle,' (2014)
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'I can't believe it's not Thatcher'

'I can't believe it's not Thatcher' is an Animated Gif is a response to the current political situation and policies.

Translated Thoughts

‘Translated Thoughts’ is the final show for all Fine Art Third Years at Lincoln University, taking place inside the Fine Art spaces. These five gifs are being exhibited together under the title ‘FILE:///C:/HOLLY/BOWLER/ART/FINAL_EXHIBIT/ENVIRONMENTALCOLLECTIVE.GIFS’ but are all individual pieces of the own right.

The exhbit starts on the 31st of May 2014, ending on the 16th of June 2014.

http://translatedthoughts.weebly.com/

I was taking part in a workshop about Art and Politics and was introduced to the art of Animated Gifs. I found that making a Gif worked better for me than some of the other things I was doing at that time, it meant I could express my point more successfully, and it was a new challenge for me. In the 2011 I created some posters and mailed them to people in different places in England. North and South. In the hope to get some back with people’s opinions of the work and its primary message.

Animated Gifs remind me of Mail Art, Animated Gif’s being what I believe to be the modern society’s take on Mail Art. Rather than sending them on via the postal service, I can do it from home from my Email.

My work here is hand drawn on paper, the drawings are then scanned onto a computer. Using the original pencil image I can then change the colours, with these works I have edited it and left it with these define black lines on a white surface. Gifs are sometimes very easy to make, anyone can make a Gif. You can scan anything onto your computer, or you can take screen shots from something already on the internet and animate that.

I don’t need to add text to the work as the Gifs speak for themselves. Gifs do what I want them to do, they are a powerful form of expression. ‘Ice Lolly’ is eighty seven hand drawn images individually scanned and animated into life. Combining traditional drawing techniques with a modern take on Mail Art brings together the old and the new. I find them challenging, exciting and very good and doing what I want them to do. Provoking thought and enlightening people to certain Environmental Issues we face today

'Ice Lolly,' (2014)

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REBLAST

'REBLAST'

'BLAST' was a short lived literary magazine by the Vorticist movement, first published in July 1914. However it wasn’t to last long due to the declaration of the 1st World War. Vorticism was a modern movement in Britain in Art and Poetry in the early 20th Century.

REBLAST being the RE BLAST of the new Vorticist manifesto, starting again, "Bless and Blast! Smash the Past!" all in the persuit to create a new publication online. Starting in June 2014.

http://reblast2014.tumblr.com/

Projecting Light and Mark Making (Contains Flashing Images)

'Projecting Light and Mark Making'

Using what I have learned about Gifs, whilst taking part in a workshop about making marks using light, I have been able to create Gifs using light, shadows and reflections.

The workshop I found very amusing, we were tasked to bring in objects and place them in a fashion to create interesting marks in the air and on different surfaces. However, the human instinct always seemed to take over, people would sit and try and place the objects in such a fashion to create the perfect reflection. Then they would take a picture of this so called perfect layout. I found myself more interested in the process in between. The fact the process of creating perfection started to get in the way of the task at hand.

I simply locked onto the section where people couldn’t quite get the objects right and took multiple images as quickly as I could. Bringing these back and then re animating them as an Animated Gif.

'Snapshot,' (2014)

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'Black and White,' (2014)
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Red' (2014)

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'The Blue Line' (2014)
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'Wonky Square'
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