Amazing! What a brilliant idea, I’m so making one of these!
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Hello, my name's Kate Harrison, welcome to my art blog. Website: www.kateharrisonart.com
Here’s my newest piece, which doesn’t yet have a title.
My light installation paintings were initially inspired by movement of lights trails, from long exposure photography. I’m interested in the transition between mediums, from initial photographs, to paintings, and the rope lighting bringing a sculptural quality to the pieces.
For this piece, I was also very influenced by my research into nerves & pain, which I’ve reflected in the colours, and knots of the lighting. For more info on my work please visit my website www.kateharrisonart.com
Here’s some pictures of one of my favourite artists, James Turrell.
Picture from James Turrell. ‘Spread’, 2003. Installation view, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle. Fluorescent and neon light
In November 2010, I went to see an exhibition of Turrell’s at the Gagosian Gallery, London. Seeing an insallation by Turrell means being immersed in the light, colours, and atmosphere. I like art that makes you really think, contemplate, or look from different perspectives.
One of Turrell’s installations, called ‘Dhatu’, is a white room that you walk into, up some steps. The floor and walls seem to merge in a fluid curve, giving the illusion of an infinite space with no horizon. The lights are really mesmerising, changing colours smoothly and freely, lighting up the white space that surrounds the viewers. I felt totally relaxed whilst looking at the transient, beautiful, colours of light.
‘For more than forty-five years, Turrell has explored the myriad possibilities of using light as a medium of perception. His formally simple works draw attention to the limits of seeing while seeking to expand the wordless thought that they provoke.’ - Gagosian Gallery, London
Art has the ability to influence and affect the senses and emotions of the viewer. Turrell’s installation’s evoke feelings of tranquility, relaxation, and an overall sense of calm. That’s what attracted me to Turrell’s meditative light installations, and why I’m so in awe of his work.
Artist exploring chronic pain: Alexa Wright
I found Alexa Wright, on the website http://dadafest2010.co.uk. Wright exhibited work in the festival for Disabled And Deaf Artists in 2010.
An earlier piece from the artist called, ‘PUSH’, is a multimedia collaboration, developed over 4 year research period, along with writers Diane Samuels, Sarah Woods, and performer Cathrin Long. Pain Specialists; Dr Charles Pither, Dr Anita Holdcroft and Dr Mick Serpell, also had input into the research of the piece. Patrick Wall (Pain Specialist), whose research shattered traditional understanding of pain, died shortly after recording an interview which forms part of the work.
I found the piece, ‘PUSH’, really refreshing to see a frank and honest piece, displaying intimate details of an experience of living with chronic pain. This piece will perhaps change our understanding of what it means to live with long-term pain.
In my art work, I’ve recently been looking into neuroscience.
Just came across this cool drawing, from 1875!
Camillo Golgi, Olfactory Bulb, 1875.
“This 1875 drawing of a dog’s olfactory bulb by Camillo Golgi is but one of the many astonishing architectures that were revealed by a staining method that bears his name. Its application to the study of nervous tissue marks the beginning of modern neuroscience.”
— Carl Schoonover, Portraits of the Mind: Visualizing the Brain from Antiquity to the 21st Century
Amazing!
On May 19th, 2005, NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured this stunning view as the Sun sank below the rim of Gusev crater on Mars. This Panoramic Camera (Pancam) mosaic was taken around 6:07 in the evening of the rover’s 489th martian day, or sol. Spirit was commanded to stay awake briefly after sending that sol’s data to the Mars Odyssey orbiter just before sunset. This small panorama of the western sky was obtained using Pancam’s 750-nanometer, 530-nanometer and 430-nanometer color filters. This filter combination allows false color images to be generated that are similar to what a human would see, but with the colors slightly exaggerated.
Image credit: NASA/JPL/Texas A&M/Cornell
Source: A Moment Frozen in Time, Mars Exploration Rover Mission, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
‘Perspectives’, 2008
Here’s an image of my multi-screen film installation, exhibited at the Picturedrome, Northampton in 2010.
’Perspectives’, is an exploration into the medium of film. Focusing on the processes & perspectives within filmmaking. I explore deconstruction and reconstruction, though the filming and editing process, and the building of physical installations. My installations aim to bestow an aura of the original footage after being filtered through a combination of fragmentation and distortion techniques. I was concerned with the act of watching, viewing, and with various different perspectives. I have created many visual planes within the piece. In virtual reality through the editing techniques, and in reality, within the physical space of the installations. My installations are a combination of reality and virtual reality, physical and virtual space, and fragmentation of time.
Green/Blue Horizontal (2005) by Sandy Smith
I love this installation! It reminds me of my ‘Perspectives’ piece, with multiple screens, and similar colours. Check out, http://www.kateharrisonart.com/?page_id=189 to see ‘Perspectives’.
Inspiration: Artist I like, Katie Holland Lewis.
I love her work, so interesting and different!
’ questioning the gap between a subjective experience and medicine’s conventions for understanding the body.’-Katie Lewis
Hello,
I’m starting off my blog with a photo that I took a few years ago. ‘Spinning’.
My art work for years has been exploring light, movement & contemplation. This photograph is where I was focused on the fluid movement of light, and using the camera to capture what the eye can’t see.
For more of my work, check out www.kateharrisonart.com
